Getting Started with Middle School Sentence Composing, 1st edition

Getting Started with Middle School Sentence Composing introduces the powerful Sentence-Composing approach at a perfect time — middle school — to deepen students’ skill in writing strong sentences. Using real sentences by authors as models, it provides practice with four tools that skilled writers use to add variety to their work:

 
• Openers to vary sentence beginnings
 
• Splits to vary sentence middles
 
• Closers to vary sentence endings
 
• Mixes to add details in two or three places

Along the way, Don and Jenny Killgallon provide support for students, including:

 
• Basic sentence structures – activities to understand subjects, predicates, and their roles in sentence building
 
• Broken sentences – exercises to identify, avoid, and repair fragments
 
• Vocabulary scaffolds – “quickshots” to include an immediate, clear definition in context for challenging words

Samples

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