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Sausage Sentences: Sausage Dialogue

This original WritingFix prompt was created by Northern Nevada teacher Corbett Harrison at a Northern Nevada Writing Project inservice class.  "I've heard it said that there's not much original in education anymore," says Corbett, "but I am pretty sure that I invented the concept of sausage sentences. I hope you and your students enjoy this exercise."


Writer Instructions:

What is a sausage sentence?  It's a meaningful string of words whose beginning and ending letters match.  For example, notice how the blue letters match in the following sentence:

Every yellow warbler rested during Gideon's skillfully yodeled ditty.

It's great fun to create good sausage sentences. It's also fun to create a character who only speaks in sausage dialogue.

For example, I have a dog whose name is Ozzy, and Ozzy really thinks sausages are the most delicious thing on earth. We call him "sausage dog." If I ever wrote a story about Ozzy, I think I would have him only speak in sausage dialogue:

Dialogue that Ozzy might say in my story about him:

  • "Sausages smell le-dicious!"
  • "I insist that ."
  • "Bow-wow-wow!"
  • Etc.

Can you invent a character who only speaks in sausage sentences? Can you write a story or a comic strip that stars your character and features his/her dialogue!


Sausage Sentence Dialogue Starters:

 

 


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