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Download full textFolta, Bernarr – 1969
Students in grades 4, 5, or 6 can learn to write more concretely, accurately, and deliberately by employing three strategies: (1) elimination of those words or phrases that garble meaning or repeat unnecessarily; (2) substitution of more specific, concrete, and generally more appropriate expressions for ones that are vague and unimaginative; and…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
