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| Background | |
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| Writing Basics | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| The Importance of the Sentence | |
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| Sentence Variations | |
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| The First Sentences | |
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| Syntactic Control | |
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| Syntactic Control Difficulties | |
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| What Is Sentence Combining? | |
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| Sentence-Combining Basics | |
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| Part-to-Whole Learning | |
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| Theoretical Principles | |
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| Practical Benefits of Sentence Combining | |
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| Sentence Combining versus "Real" Writing | |
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| Raising Metalinguistic Awareness | |
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| Sentence Combining versus Other Types of Writing Instruction | |
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| Teaching and Assessment | |
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| The Cognitive Challenge of Combining Sentences | |
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| Types of Sentence-Combining Exercises | |
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| Cued Exercises | |
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| Open Exercises | |
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| Checking Accuracy | |
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| Whole-Discourse Exercises | |
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| Ramping Up Cued and Open Exercises | |
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| Transfer to Connected Writing | |
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| Content Sources for Exercises | |
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| Teaching Sentences | |
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| Sentence Basics 1 | |
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| Sentence Basics 2 | |
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| Sentence Basics 3 | |
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| Teaching Sentence Combining | |
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| The Three Segments of Sentence-Combining Lessons | |
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| The Value of Discussion | |
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| "Mistakes" | |
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| Oral Practice | |
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| Your Role as the Teacher during Discussions | |
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| Scheduling Practice Sessions | |
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| Where to Schedule Sentence Combining in a Writing Workshop | |
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| Sentence-Combining Best-Practice Suggestions | |
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| Student Grouping | |
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| Peer Conferencing | |
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| Wong's Peer Conferencing Arrangement | |
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| Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Grading's Effect on Learning Environments | |
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| Four Comparative Metrics | |
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| Sample Unit of Instruction, Practice Activities, and Exercises | |
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| Sample Unit of instruction | |
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| Lesson 1 | |
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| Lesson 2 | |
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| Lesson 3 | |
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| Lesson 4 | |
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| Practice Activities | |
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| A Tale of Two Combinations | |
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| Ten Different Ways | |
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| Sentence Spread-Out | |
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| Index Cards | |
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| Sentence Mix-Up | |
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| Note Rewrite | |
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| The Editor | |
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| The Proofreader | |
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| Teamwork | |
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| FANBOYS | |
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| Paragraph Doctor | |
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| Where Does It Belong? | |
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| Paragraph Challenge | |
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| Sentence Hunt | |
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| Journaling | |
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| Which Is Better? | |
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| Artist Study | |
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| Prewriting and Prereading | |
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| Story Starters | |
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| Common Grammatical Terms and Exercise Sequence | |
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| A List of Common Grammatical Terms | |
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| Exercise Sequence | |
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| Word-, Phrase-, and Clause-Length Exercises | |
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| Coordinate Structures | |
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| Adverb Structures | |
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| Noun Modifiers | |
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| Noun Substitutes | |
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| Free Modifiers | |
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| Exercises with Multiple Grammatical Elements | |
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| Sentence Construction with Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Sentence Construction with Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Sentence Construction with Coordinators | |
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| Sentence Construction with Adjective Clauses | |
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| Sentence Construction with Adverb Clauses | |
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| Sentence Construction with Appositives | |
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| Sentence Construction with Participial Phrases | |
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| Sentence Construction with Absolutes | |
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| Sentence Construction with Noun Phrases and Noun Clauses | |
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| Paragraph-Length Exercises | |
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| Exercise 1 | |
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| Exercise 2 | |
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| Exercise 3 | |
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| Exercise 4 | |
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| Exercise 5 | |
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| Exercise 6 | |
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| Exercise 7 | |
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| Exercise 8 | |
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| Exercise 9 | |
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| Exercise 10 | |
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| Exercise 11 | |
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| Exercise 12 | |
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| Exercise 13 | |
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| Exercise 14 | |
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| Exercise 15 | |
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| Exercise 16 | |
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| Exercise 17 | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |