Today in literacy we learned how to expand sentences. We began with a compound sentence and added adjectives, verbs and adverbs to it. We also changed the start of the sentence using a variety of sentence starters. Elsa.
Example sentence:
Before - Miss Beckworth was wearing a grey skirt grey and white blouse
After - As Charlie rushed quickly into the chilled classroom, she saw Miss Beckworth standing at the door, wearing a long, grey skirt and a boring, grey and white blouse, staring impatiently at her watch with a laced up expression on her face.
Before - Miss Beckworth was wearing a grey skirt grey and white blouse
After - As Charlie rushed quickly into the chilled classroom, she saw Miss Beckworth standing at the door, wearing a long, grey skirt and a boring, grey and white blouse, staring impatiently at her watch with a laced up expression on her face.