[Music] it's so nice [Music] [Applause] outside I can't help but smile because it's so nice outside with the bright sunshine and the sky filled with fluffy clouds that make me just want to jump on them [Music] hi Scholars I'm Mrs mask and I just described what it looks like outside with two different sentences but which one was more interesting to listen to which one may you just want to drop everything you were doing and run outside to take a walk or ride a bike I totally agree the second sentence actually included the first sentence in it but we expanded the sentence or made it bigger by adding more detail we used adjectives or describing words like bright fluffy to bring our sentence to life we also added in more nouns like sunshine sky and clouds and verbs like smile and jump when we expand our sentences with details and clearer language our writing becomes more interesting to read we're going to prac practice expanding our sentences today by watching a short video clip of a young man who's working on a dairy firm we'll start with a short sentence about what we watched and then expand it let's get started I could described this scene by writing the boys in the barn with cows and hay well that certainly is true but what adjectives could we add to this how could we describe the boy he's wearing jeans in a baseball cat how about the cows yep they were mooing and waving their tails around the hay it actually looked dry and the boys was tossing it around what was he tossing the hay around with a pitchfork what was the bind floor covered in yep hey so let's try to expand this sentence with some adjectives nouns and verbs we came up with the boys in the barn with cows and hay in a barn the fine boy used a pitchfork to toss the dry hay covering the floor while the cows were mooing and waving their tails what adjectives did I add fir in front of boy dry to describe the hay how about nouns and verbs I added in the noun cows along with the verbs toss mooing and waving that sounds so much more interesting and descriptive let's try another one here let's watch this clip [Music] I could write the boy made his breakfast yes that tells us what he did but can we add more detail to give us more information what ingredients did we see the boy add to the eggs that were already in the batter vanilla and cinnamon what did he do each time he added an ingredient he mixed the batter with the fork once he was done with the batter what happened next the boy covered his bread with the batter and fried each piece of the bread on The Griddle I can also guess from the ingredients in the batter and the way the boy fried the batter that he made french toast so let's try to expand this sentence with some of the details we generated the fine Boy made made his breakfast by mixing a batter with eggs vanilla and cinnamon covering the slices of bread with batter before frying them on the griddle to make French toast H what did you notice when I expanded the sentence yes I added some verbs mixing covering and frying which gives a clear description of the boy making his breakfast did you notice that I also added more nouns to expand the original sentence eggs vanilla cinnamon batter gridle French toast how does that sound did you get a better description of how the boy made his breakfast after I expanded the sentence can you visualize that better now when we expand our sentences with detail it gives our reader more information and makes our writing more interesting to the reader give it a go next time you're putting your pencil to the paper or your fingers to the keyboard thank you for joining us if you want more fun ways to practice literacy skills don't forget to subscribe to the Michigan Learning Channel and be sure to check the description below for links to activity guides resources and more [Music] [Applause]