Adding Details to Sentences

One important skill for students to learn is to write sentences. Sometimes students have difficulty adding details to sentences. This activity gets students to practise adding extra details to sentences by working with adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. By adding details to their sentences, students will write more interesting and engaging stories

What is Included:

This activity includes two practice pages where the additional details are already given to the student. Students will practise handwriting by tracing the sentences that show students how to add the details to the sentences. Also included are word cards (for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases) to help students come up with ideas to create their own sentences. Blank writing pages are also provided for students to write their own sentences by writing the details in each step.

When to Use:

Literacy or Writing Centre - The worksheets and word cards can be placed in a literacy centre for students to write interesting sentences.

Morning Work - The teacher can give the students a simple sentence to start with and use the blank pages to add details to that sentence while their classmates arrive at class.

Homework - The blank pages can be sent home for students to practise adding details with their parents.

Skills Assessed:

Students will practise adding more details to their sentences by adding descriptive language.

The worksheets included in this resource are no-prep. They just need to be printed out and given to students to complete. The teacher may choose to give students a simple sentence to start with or the students can use the word cards to build a sentence. The word cards are low prep, needing to be printed and cut apart. The blank pages can be laminated to become a reusable write and wipe activity. The cards will store nicely in a task box.