Sausage Sentences: Book Summaries

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.

This prompt challenges you to summarize a book or chapter from a book with a sausage sentence.

For example, Charlotte's Web could be described with this sausage sentence: "Pig gets spider's support."

The Catcher in the Rye could be summarized with "Holden needs some emotional love."

To Kill a Mockingbird might be summarized with "Thoughtful lawyers suffer ridiculous segregation."

Start by making sausage summaries for books from the interactive button choices below. Save your favorites on a special page of your journal or writer's notebooks.

Then, start making sausage sentence book summaries on your own. They're great to think up when you're on a long car trip or standing in line somewhere.

Write a good sausage sentence summary from the choices above? Send it to us at: publish@writingfix.com so we can share your creativity!