Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
Published on 1. October 2012
176 pages
978-1-4625-0838-9 (ISBN)
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Classroom teachers, special educators, and literacy specialists in grades 2-12; speech-language pathologists; teacher educators. May serve as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses.
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Bruce Saddler
Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
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10/2012
1st Edition
Guilford Press
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Bruce Saddler, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Division of Special Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York. A former K-12 special education teacher and teacher of the year, he conducts research on writing and the remediation of writing difficulties. He has published over 40 articles and has conducted more than 80 presentations, workshops, and clinics throughout the United States and Canada. Of particular interest to Dr. Saddler is sentence combining, a writing technique he has spent over a decade investigating, teaching, and discussing.
Content
Part I. Background 1. Writing Basics 2. The Importance of the Sentence 3. What Is Sentence Combining? Part II. Teaching and Assessment 4. The Cognitive Challenge of Combining Sentences 5. Types of Sentence-Combining Exercises 6. Teaching Sentences 7. Teaching Sentence Combining 8. Student Grouping 9. Assessment Part III. Sample Unit of Instruction, Practice Activities, and Exercises 10. Sample Unit of Instruction11. Practice Activities 12. Common Grammatical Terms and Exercise Sequence13. Word-, Phrase-, and Clause-Length Exercises14. Exercises with Multiple Grammatical Elements 15. Paragraph-Length ExercisesReferencesIndex
