Heather Adams of Oak Street Elementary School in Franklin, Massachusetts, teaches her third-grade class how to improve their sentences by adding, rearranging, and removing words. Instead of writing “Tigers have sharp claws and tigers have sharp teeth,” students learn to condense to “Tigers have sharp claws and teeth.” Ms. Adams makes cross-content connections by having students practice writing complex sentences about the animals they’ve been studying in science. For more context, see the first two videos in this series.