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Peer reviewedSullivan, Jerry L. – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Presents and discusses a descriptive paragraph useful for teaching composition students how rhetorical fragments work in writing and why sentence fragments do not. (HTH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grammar, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedWalls, Doyle W. – Exercise Exchange, 1983
This exercise is intended to teach the sense of sentences and their place in the larger fabric of paragraphs as they are woven into organized papers. Based on the five-paragraph theme (introduction, three body paragraphs, and conclusion), the exercise divides "What I Haved Lived For," the prologue to "The Autobiography of Bertrand…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedMarino, Jacqueline L. – Reading World, 1980
Describes four procedures commonly used to describe the content and structure of text: T-unit analysis, propositional representation, story grammars, and primary trait scoring. Discusses results of research regarding the procedures and their implications for instruction. (TJ)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedVande Kopple, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Reports of research on using different patterns for connecting sentences. Shows the importance of applying insights from text linguistics to writing instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), High School Students
Rio Linda Union School District, CA. – 1982
A teacher guide and six student workbooks are included in this supplementary writing program which provides daily writing practice in sentence and paragraph skills for children in grades 1-6. Sequentially arranged writing activities isolate and focus on those essential skills that children need to be successful with classroom writing. Using a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Suffolk County Board of Cooperative Educational Services 2, Patchogue, NY. – 1987
This guide provides a collection of ideas for word processing activities that teachers have found to be useful in special education classes. The guide begins with a list of 41 computer skills, the grade levels at which the skills are usually introduced (from kindergarten to secondary levels), and provides names of commercial programs which may be…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Writing, Disabilities
Barnes, Martha; And Others – 1983
The purpose of this curriculum guide is to assist Training Specialists to teach Adult Basic Education/General Education Development (ABE/GED) students intermediate skills in reading, English, and mathematics. The guide begins with an introduction (purpose, overview, adult learner characteristics, teacher type), curriculum policies, curriculum…
Descriptors: Addition, Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Behavioral Objectives
