Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence WritingThis practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons, practice activities, planning tips, and grammatical pointers make it easy for teachers to incorporate sentence combining and construction into the writing curriculum at all grade levels (2-12). Accessible and engaging, the book helps teachers and students experiment with different ways to arrange thoughts and produce meaningful written work. |
Contents
1Writing Basics
| 3 |
2The Importance of the Sentence
| 6 |
3What Is Sentence Combining? | 11 |
Part IITeaching and Assessment | 21 |
4The Cognitive Challenge of Combining Sentances
| 23 |
5Types of SentenceCombining Exercises | 27 |
6Teaching Sentences
| 49 |
7Teaching Sentence Combining
| 53 |
Part IIISample Unit of Instruction Practice Activities and Exercises | 77 |
10Sample Unit of Instruction
| 79 |
11Practice Activities
| 97 |
12Common Grammatical Terms
and Exercise Sequence
| 106 |
13Word Phrase
and ClauseLength Exercises
| 116 |
14Exercises with Multiple
Grammatical Elements
| 142 |
15ParagraphLength Exercises
| 152 |
| 167 | |
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