connectors+and+starters

First draft:
//I think a hospital is the most important thing in a neighborhood. People have babies there. People go there when they are sick. People go there to get flu shots. Without a hospital, we would not be very healthy.//

Read this with the class (put it on a chart), talk about how all the sentences are short and many of them start the same way.

Start with __starters__: Instead of starting all the sentences the same way, you can use starters to find new ways to begin a sentence.

//I think a hospital is the most important thing in a neighborhood. People have babies there. **In addition**, people go there when they are sick. **Also**, people go there to get flu shots. Without a hospital, we would not be very healthy.//

__Connectors__ help make some sentences longer so you have some long sentences and some shorter sentences. Go back through and add connectors. (You might want to do this on Day 2). You can use a connector to connect 2 sentences you already wrote, or to add on to make a sentence longer.

//I think a hospital is the most important thing in a neighborhood. People have babies there **so their babies are healthy.** In addition, people go there when they are sick, **because the doctors and nurses can help you stop bleeding**. Also, people go there to get flu shots **when it's winter**. Without a hospital, we would not be very healthy.//

List of connectors and starters, for table tents: //[|Connectorsstarters.doc]//