Helps students to: IES Practice Guide: Teaching write complex yet concise sentences Elementary School Students to Be express important points and ideas Effective Writers, U.S. express ideas in an interesting way Department of Education, June To implement the activity: 2012. (p.31) SENTENCE 1. Choose sentences for combining. COMBINING 2. Model how to combine the sentences using several examples; with older students, introduce moving, deleting, and adding words or parts. 3. Have students rate the quality of the new alternatives to the new sentence, provide sentence, and discuss which sentences sound better and why. 4. Encourage students to work in pairs to combine sentences, creating several new possibilities and rating the quality of their new sentences. Helps student to develop sentence writing IES Practice Guide: Teaching skills. Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. To implement the activity: Department of Education, June 1. Develop a sentence frame for students 2012. (p.31) to use. SENTENCE 2. the use of the sentence frame. 3. Have students use the sentence frame to FRAMING construct their own sentences. 4. Have students share their sentences with peers and discuss their word choices.
SENTENCE COMBINING Helps students to: write complex yet concise sentences express important points and ideas express ideas in an interesting way To implement the activity: 1. Choose sentences for combining. 2. Model how to combine the sentences using several examples; with older students, introduce moving, deleting, and adding words or parts. 3. Have students rate the quality of the new sentence, provide alternatives to the new sentence, and discuss which sentences sound better and why. 4. Encourage students to work in pairs to combine sentences, creating several new possibilities and rating the quality of their new sentences. IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.31) SENTENCE FRAMING Helps student to develop sentence writing skills. To implement the activity: 1. Develop a sentence frame for students to use. 2. the use of the sentence frame. 3. Have students use the sentence frame to construct their own sentences. 4. Have students share their sentences with peers and discuss their word choices. IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.31)
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