... writers. As a conclusion to this activity, student volunteers read aloud their paragraphs. Expanding Sentences Having had an abundance of experiences with adjectives and adverbs, we began writing ... quickly, quietly, and loudly. They also trudged, sauntered, and meandered. Each group was then given a noun and had to describe the noun with great detail. For example, the card said, ‘house’. ... read aloud Toad (Brown, 1997). This picture book gave students a visual and literary representation of how the use of adjectives and adverbs (see Appendix C) produces outstanding writing that...