Fourth grade writing skills can be improved by using “colorful” language.  You can help improve your child’s writing skills by using Visual Thesaurus, an interactive thesaurus and dictionary. 

Simply type in the “plain” word you’d like to make more “colorful” and enter – it’s that easy!

Plain sentence: The Spurs played a great game.  They really beat the Mavericks!

Colorful sentence: The Spurs played an extraordinary game.  They genuinely beat the Mavericks!

Continue finding “colorful” words using Visual Thesaurus until you have a unique sentence!