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ERIC Number: EJ756499
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Mar
Pages: 9
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
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Reinforcing Expository Reading and Writing Skills: A More Versatile Sentence Completion Task
Montelongo, Jose A.; Hernandez, Anita C.
Reading Teacher, v60 n6 p538-546 Mar 2007
This article introduces a modification of the sentence completion task that acquaints students with various types of informational text structures (e.g., cause-effect, compare-contrast) and challenges their higher order reading and writing skills. When the individual sentences comprising an expository paragraph are intermingled with unrelated sentences and presented in a random order, students are challenged in several ways: First, students must fill in the blanks with the appropriate vocabulary word. Then they must separate the related sentences from the unrelated ones. Next, they must locate the main idea or topic sentence. Finally, students must arrange the related sentences to form a cohesive paragraph. The results of an investigation conducted with fourth- and fifth-grade students suggest that use of this strategy facilitates locating main ideas in addition to providing practice in forming logical paragraphs. Recommendations for introducing, creating, and modifying this activity are offered. (Contains 5 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Grade 5
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Language: English
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