Expanding Sentences

What is the purpose of expanding a sentence?

• to give more details and information

• to make it seem fancy because it's long

• to make it longer

• to make my teacher happy

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CCSS.L.5.3A

The following sentence is missing the "who" details. What is the best way to expand it? They were very excited to make homemade pepperoni pizza!

• replace "They" with "The girls"

• replace "They" with "We"

• replace "They" with "Ellen and Sarah"

• replace "They" with "The friends"

The following sentence is missing the "where" details. What is the best way to expand it? We are going there on Sunday.

• replace "there" with "to the park"

• replace "there" with "to Cedar Point Amusement Park"

• replace "there" with "to the amusement park"

• replace "there" with "to a fun amusement park"

Compare the two underlined sentences: The girls played. and The girls played soccer with their friends at the park on Saturday. The 1st sentence was expanded to the 2nd sentence. Why was the 1st sentence expanded?

• to tell where the girls played

• to include what, when, where, and who details

• to make the sentence longer

• to include where and who details

Which sentences tells you WHEN?

• Humpty Dumpty sat peacefully on a wall.

• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall so that he could see what was happening.

• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall all night long.

Which sentence tells you WHERE?

• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet.

• Little Miss Muffet sat quietly.

• Little Miss Muffett sat waiting on her friend, Mr. Spider.

Which sentence tells you HOW?

• The mice ran quickly up the clock.

• The mice ran up the clock because a cat was after them.

• The mice ran up the clock when it struck one o'clock.

There were five little monkeys jumping on the bed.

Which sentence below is rewritten to tell you WHEN they were jumping?

• There were five little monkeys jumping on the bed when their mother was out of the room.

• There were five monkeys excitedly jumping on the bed because they ate 10 cookies,

• There were five little monkeys jumping on the bed that belonged to their father.