Text and exercises outline how to write grammatically-correct expository sentences.

This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons, practice activities, planning tips, and grammatical pointers make it easy for teachers to incorporate sentence combining and construction into the writing curriculum at all grade levels (2-12). Accessible and engaging, the book helps teachers and students experiment with different ways to arrange thoughts and produce meaningful written work.

Sentence Craft is an engaging system that helps students from elementary to high school write more effective, creative sentences using the crafting process from the popular Minecraft video game as a metaphor. Written for both students and teachers, this handbook includes 19 example crafting recipes with instructions for each, as well as a detailed, graphically-rich inventory of 18 sentence ingredients. As students practice sentences based on these recipes and ingredients, they become more adept at using the sentence structures and techniques of master writers. They also become more fluent with the rules and methods of punctuation. Teachers can also use the information and ingredients contained in this handbook to dynamically create unique crafting recipes for their students to master. Access to Minecraft is not necessary.

SENTENCE COMBINING WORKBOOK uses sentence-combining techniques to help you develop confidence in your writing at the sentence level and practice in communicating your ideas in clear sentence structures. Each unit focuses on a specific sentence-level technique, followed by a set of sentence-combining exercises involving a narrative story or factual topic. Through this innovative story-telling approach, you'll practice viewing individual sentences as part of a larger context and develop your sentence expansion skills.