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Getting Started with High School Sentence Composing : A Student Worktext
Overview
"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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780325098166
- ISBN-10: 0325098166
- Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
- Publish Date: April 2018
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 144
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