"Sentence composing provides acrobatic training in sentence dexterity...using literature as a writing school with a faculty of professional writers who virtually teach students to build better sentences." --Don and Jenny Killgallon Getting Started with High School Sentence Composing introduces the powerful sentence-composing approach. Using real sentences by authors as models, it provides practice with five sentence parts, or tools, that research shows skilled writers use to create high-quality, variety-packed ...
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"Sentence composing provides acrobatic training in sentence dexterity...using literature as a writing school with a faculty of professional writers who virtually teach students to build better sentences." --Don and Jenny Killgallon Getting Started with High School Sentence Composing introduces the powerful sentence-composing approach. Using real sentences by authors as models, it provides practice with five sentence parts, or tools, that research shows skilled writers use to create high-quality, variety-packed writing: Extenders to enlarge meaning within a sentence Identifiers to identify someone or something Describers to describe someone or something Elaborators to add details for full understanding Combos to combine tools within a sentence Along the way, Don and Jenny Killgallon provide help for students, including: Basic sentence ideas --Activities to understand subjects, predicates, and their relationship to those five tools Broken sentences --Exercises to identify, avoid, and repair fragments Vocabulary scaffolds --"Quickshots" to include an immediate, clear definition in context for challenging words.
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