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S t r e t c h and Write More
Objective: Students will revise weak and/or simple sentences into well-developed, expanded sentences.
Time: 20 minutes (30 if sentences are to be shared)
Directions:
• Explain that sentences may be expanded and elaborated in a number of specific ways. For example,
writers may add adjectives, adverbs, phrases, and/or clauses to an original simple sentence.
• Instruct students to write a simple subject/action verb sentence. (The duck quacked. The woman
screamed. The ball fell.)
• Distribute the SENTENCE ELABORATION worksheet.
• Instruct students to rewrite their own sentences following the examples given.
• Sentences may be shared with the class as a small group or whole class activity.
Sample: The boy ran.
Add an
adjective
Add an
adverb
Add a
prepositional
phrase
Add a
participial
phrase
Add an infinitive
phrase
Add a definitive clause
The
foolish
boy ran.
Finally the
foolish boy
ran.
Finally, the
foolish boy
ran across the
broken bridge.
Showing off
for his friends,
the foolish boy
ran across the
broken bridge
To prove he was
brave, the foolish
boy ran across
the broken
bridge.
After the neighborhood
bully called him a
coward, the foolish boy
ran across the broken
bridge.
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