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Intensive Intervention Practice Guide: Explicit Instruction in Sentence-Combining for Struggling Writers
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Chandler, Brennan W.; Bourget, Jessica L.; Reno, Emily A. – Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, 2021
The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice
From Fairy Dust to Mental Discipline: A Journey Via the Grammar Text.
Papay, Twila Yates – 1983
Students can improve their writing skills by studying grammar. In learning to apply a logical system in their analysis of sentence parts, for example, students develop mental discipline. This discipline can be strengthened through the grammatical analysis of their own papers. In these evaluations, which include error and stylistic analyses and a…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Structural Grammar, Traditional Grammar, Transformational Generative Grammar
Using Visual Clues: Teaching Writing to Unprepared Students.
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Alexander, Sandra C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1983
Suggests teaching remedial composition students to use visual clues--markings and locational indicators--to analyze sentences and eliminate recurring grammatical errors. (AEA)
Descriptors: Diagrams, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Remedial Instruction
Transformational Theory and Developmental Composition: Starting from Competency.
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Smith, Gayle L. – Exercise Exchange, 1980
Suggests using a sentence construction game to make basic writing students more aware of their linguistic ability and more comfortable dealing with grammar. Indicates that the experience helps students in revising their writing and introduces the experience of working creatively and playfully with language. (TJ)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Higher Education, Low Achievement, Secondary Education
Twelve Steps to Using Generative Sentences and Sentence Combining in the Composition Classroom.
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Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Guidelines for connecting the rhetorical principles taught by Francis Christensen with concepts from sentence-combining in a plan to help students learn to invent and develop sentences. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College English, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Guiding Students through the Writing Process.
Fleming, Margaret, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1982
A variety of process-oriented writing instruction strategies are presented in this focused journal issue. Article titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Central Reference to the Rescue" (Rod Kessler); (2)"Brainstorming: A Heuristic that Works" (Frank C. Cronin); (3) "Brainstorming: A Valuable Supplemental Technique for…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Brainstorming, Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis
Best Practices in Writing Instruction. Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy
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Graham, Steve, Ed.; MacArthur, Charles A., Ed.; Fitzgerald, Jill, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Highly practical and accessible, this indispensable book provides clear-cut strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors are leading authorities who demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education