Elementary Sentence Expansion

K–23–5
Written By FULCRUM

Grade: 2

School: Riverside Elementary

Location: Toledo, Ohio

Instructor: Maria Bailey, Literacy Support Teacher

What makes this a strong model?

  • Explicit teaching of the sentence expansion skill by using question words and adding more detail to simple sentences

  • Asking students for contributions to use as examples and co-generating sentences

  • Reinforcing the students’ examples while modeling corrected grammar and sentence structure

Source: Reading Universe

FULCRUM