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

After learning about the Boston Tea Party, Ms. Lester’s 4th grade class writes a Summary Sentence.

After reading an article on Pi Day, Ms. Hussein’s class complete a sentences and fragments activity.

Ms. LoCasto teaches her ninth-graders how to generate details for a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) about Galileo and his contributions.

Ms. Jurgensen teaches her sixth-graders how to generate topic sentences using details about the lives of Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Ms. Guillory’s first-grade class completes an SPO around their class pet, Rosie. (Long-version video)

Ms. Guillory’s first-grade class completes an SPO around their class pet, Rosie. (Short-version video)

Ms. Rogers uses examples from different books to showcase how her ninth-grade students can take efficient notes.

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

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