Add More and A Little

This creative grammar worksheet supports students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 as they combine grammatical accuracy with descriptive writing and sentence development. By expanding short sentences while correctly using little, a little, or the little, learners practice precise determiner usage and enhance clarity, tone, and imagery through added details and adjectives.

Learning Goals

• Grammar & Sentence Expansion (Grades 6-8): Students maintain correct determiner usage while expanding sentences with additional details.
• Vocabulary & Description Enhancement: Learners add adjectives and descriptive phrases to improve vividness and meaning.
• Writing Mechanics & Tone Development: Students analyze how added details affect tone, clarity, and reader understanding.
• Creative & Contextual Grammar Use: Learners apply grammar rules within expressive, original writing.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with middle school ELA grammar and writing standards.
• Integrated Grammar & Writing Task: Reinforces accuracy while encouraging creativity.
• Active Revision Practice: Students underline added words to reflect on how revisions improved meaning.
• Flexible Use: Suitable for grammar lessons, writing workshops, enrichment, assessment, or homeschool instruction.

This Add More and A Little worksheet helps students move beyond sentence correction into purposeful sentence building. By expanding ideas while preserving correct determiner usage, learners strengthen grammatical fluency, descriptive writing skills, and awareness of how small language choices shape meaning. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable activity offers an engaging, low-prep way to blend grammar instruction with expressive writing practice.

This worksheet is part of our Little vs. A Little vs. The Little collection.