Sentence Expansion: Mr. Pei

Mr. Pei leads his first-graders in a whole-class practice of sentence expansion.

Ms. Weathersby leads her second-graders in a whole-class practice of changing fragments to sentences as a review of a reading about frogs.

Ms. Lester leads her fourth-graders in a whole-class practice of transitions as a review of the Boston Tea Party.

Ms. Davis leads her third-graders in a whole-class practice of appositives to describe the characters in the text Because of Winn-Dixie.

Ms. Hollis leads her third-graders in a remote whole-class practice of sentence combining as a review of the Louisiana Purchase.

Ms. Gayden leads her third-graders in a whole-class practice of sentence expansion using error analysis.

Ms. Rogers uses sentence expansion to assess her ninth-graders’ understanding of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson.

We recommend printing TWR posters on 11×17 paper (tabloid) and displaying them at eye level for students in your classroom. These are transition posters for grades 3-12.

Monitor student growth with Periodic Assessments designed specifically for grades 3-12. Educators can create their own prompts and enter them into a ready-to-use template, complete with Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) and publishing paper.

Monitor student growth with Periodic Assessments designed specifically for grades 1 and 2. Educators can create their own prompts and enter them into a ready-to-use template, available in two formats: one with primary handwriting lines for early writers, and one without for more advanced students.