Teaching page · Grade 2 · Lesson 24

Expand with HOW

A sentence can say HOW something was done.

What it is

She wrote. tells your reader the action but not the manner — was she rushing, or taking her time? Telling how lets a reader see the way something was done, not just that it happened.

Watch it built

1
Start with the sentence you have.
She wrote.
2
Ask yourself: how?
How did she write? Carefully.
3
Put the answer at the end.
She wrote carefully.

One more

The door closed.
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The door closed quietly.
Remember
Ask how? and put the answer at the end.
Ask yourself: “Does my sentence say how?”

Remember

How? Add the manner.

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