Students identify appositives in a text **Why teach this skill?** Increases awareness of how writers add detail within sentences. Helps students recognize how noun phrases rename or clarify other nouns.

Students fill in appositives in a sentence **Why teach this skill?** Strengthens comprehension and precision. Asks students to complete sentences by adding missing appositive phrases that clarify meaning.

Given an appositive, students write a sentence using that appositive **Why teach this skill?** Builds confidence adding short, descriptive noun phrases. Guides students to insert concise appositives after a noun to clarify or define it.

Given a topic, students write a sentence that contains an appositive **Why teach this skill?** Extends sentence variety and fluency. Encourages embedding longer or multiple appositive phrases for richer description.

Students combine two sentences into one by forming an appositive **Why teach this skill?** Strengthens descriptive clarity and concision. Merges sentences by turning a repeated noun into an appositive phrase, e.g., “My sister, a skilled pianist, practices daily.”