Sentence Composing For High School: A Worktext On Sentence

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	• Sentence Composing for High School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity Don Killgallon Boynton/Cook, 1998 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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My experience has been that 9th and 10th grade students are engaged by the lessons in this book. The examples come from both popular and literary works. The exercises build logically. Most students can do the work without questions, allowing time to work one-to-one with struggling students. Using these lessons gave the class a common language around creating complex sentences, which helped in the transfer of skills from the writing exercises to the use of complex sentences in essays and other written work.

Simlify, simplify

I like Killgallon's basic approach: students learn grammar and sentence fluency best by imitating the sentence structures of professional writers. I question, however, his focus on categorizing sentence parts and his use of these categories as the organizing principle for the book. Will a student really benefit from knowing the difference between an appositive phrase and an abolute phrase? Why is this distinction important? If we take a purely functional approach to this material, why split hairs over the different types of phrases and clauses? This seems counterproductive to me. I'm not even convinced it's important to teach students the difference between a phrase and a clause, if our goal is not grammar for grammar's sake but grammar for the sake of improved writing.

On the other hand, I love Killgallon's very simple, useful distinction between sentence openers, subject-verb splits, and sentence closers. His choices of professional writers' sentences are also excellent, as is his series of sentence combining exercises. I will make use of this textbook in class, but will condense and adapt it to fit what I see as my students' needs as developing writers.

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Sentence Composing For High School: A Worktext On Sentence

This guide provides many sentence revisions for the working English classroom. It is an excellent choice for the beginning teacher and can be used as a standby for the master teacher. Useful at all high school levels. I highly recommend this text for any high school English curriculum!

With the original publication of his sentence composing series, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this expanded series, Killgallon presents the same proven methodology but offers all-new writing exercises for middle school, high school, and college students.

Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize sentence analysis, these worktexts asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composing process enjoyable and challenging. Killgallon teaches subliminally, nontechnicallythe ways real writers compose their sentences, the ways students subsequently intuit within their own writing.

Designed to produce sentence maturity and variety, the worktexts offer extensive practice in four sentence-manipulating techniques: sentence unscrambling, sentence imitating, sentence combining, and sentence expanding. It's demonstrably true that Sentence Composing can work anywhere--in any school, with any student.

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