If time allows, ask student volunteers to share revisions with the entire class. Expanding and combining sentences rejuvenate resources. If students have a rough draft in their writing folder, have them take it out and look for sentences that can be expanded. Combing, reducing, and expanding sentences is something everyone does in their daily life and without even being quite aware of it. Use sentences from familiar books and stories that the students have read. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. Jun 03, 2014 save 15% on your purchase of expanding and combining sentences by speech and language pathologist marilyn m.
Use this resource to practice taking simple sentences and expanding them by. Spelling words with long and short vowel sounds writing plurals and commonly misspelled words writing different types of sentences understanding parts of speech expanding and combining sentences building different kinds of paragraphs proofreading. This 5th grade grammar game focuses on strategies for expanding, combining and reducing sentences. This expanding sentences powerpoint is part of a writing bundle that is available in my tpt store. Despite appearances, the goal of sentence combining is not to produce longer sentences but rather to develop more effective sentences and to help students become more versatile writers. About the book series understanding parts of speech expanding and combining sentences building different kinds of paragraphs. If you were unable to properly combine sentences, each sentence would be very short, simple and boring. Use sentence combining worksheets to practice how to combine sentences. This epacket has 7 activities that you can use to reinforce the standard ccss l. Students can practice sentence combining working through several pages of these activities. Then, use the answer key at the end of the document to evaluate their progress. Color picture pages, along with specific instructions, provide a means of evoking interesting and descriptive sentences from students.
Toomey this week only, by applying or mentioning our promo code expand8 at check out. Sentence expanding helps students write strong, clear, and detailed sentences. Expanding reducing and combining sentences worksheets. For students who are already able to talk or write in simple, choppy sentences, this book will open gateways to success in language and literacy. Combining sentences encourages a writer to take two or more short, choppy sentences and combine them into one effective sentence. No part of this publication may be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or reproduced in any. Growth in sentence composing and variety stems from two processes, both taught through grammar for middle school. Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, readerlistener interest, and style.
In this video, nancy fetzer is referring to her writing curriculum manual. Together, these activities may serve as a supplement or an. This activity greatly improved my students ability to revise their writing. Expanding and combining sentences toomey, marilyn m on. The second way to expand sentences consists of combining whole sentences. Look at the product code on each worksheet to discover which of our many books it came from and build your teaching library. When two sentences have the same predicate, you can combine the subjects with the word and. Talking in sentences from sentence to narrative teaching kids of all ages to ask questions expanding and combining sentences pronoun practice pack. Students read the sentences on the task page, identify the important information and combine the sentences into one sentence. Along with changing the beginnings of sentences, you can add variety by combining sentences, adding words, expanding descriptions depicting something so that readers can get a clear impression. An alternative to traditional forms of grammar instruction, sentence combining gives students practice in manipulating a variety of basic sentence structures. You can combine short sentences by using phrases as well as clauses.
Students learn to construct more elaborate sentences adding one element at a time. Expanding and combining sentences outside the box learning. Using all these techniques throughout a paper will create a nice mix of sentence formats. Using a variety of sentence formats 2012 book archive. Combining sentences with and when two sentences have the same subject, you can combine the predicates with the word and. The techique i found in the first section of coaching writing is the focus of sentence combining a composing book. In the spoken discourse, these alterations in statements are brought about fairly easily as there are no specific rules to be followed as such. Guidelines are provided to teach children the challenging task of making sentences more interesting with descriptive words. Sentence expanding is the process of adding one or more words, phrases, or clauses to the main clause or independent clause to do just that. Combining sentences with and superteacherworksheets. For example, the teacher could take a few simple sentences from a common book the students are reading to demonstrate how to. Guidelines are provided to teach children the challenging task of making sentences more interesting with descriptive words andor with a more complex format.
Explain to the class that this simple sentence will form the basis of an activity designed to provide practice in expanding sentences. Work together as a class to compose a simple sentence. Building better sentences using grammatical tools associated with authors. Expand, combine, and reduce sentences by lorenz educational press. Teach students this writing technique through explicit instruction. Sometimes, due to the construct of the sentence, you cannot. This is the 5th grade version to use with your students. In this lesson, we have learned three methods for sentence embedding. I can grammar games provide students with practice in the form of multiple choice or short answer questions. William strong wrote another book about writing development, coaching writing, that i purchased at a writing workshop. With openended sentence work, students are given a set of short, simple sentences often called kernel sentences which they are asked to combine in any way they can. It recommends an explicit and integrated instructional process. Fifth grade english language arts worksheets here is a collection of our printable worksheets for topic combine, expand, and reduce sentences of chapter knowledge of language in section grammar.
Imitating authors sentences via chunking, unscrambling, combining, and expanding. Provide cued examples of critical information by underlining specific words within the. Students analyze the importance of language in the phantom tollbooth. Students revise a paragraph with analysis from the text using the sentence composing strategy. Language curriculum support introducing print awareness introducing the language of literacy the language of math for young learners. Expanding and combining sentences great ideas for teaching. Students can practice sentence combining by working through several pages of these activities. He is an amazing acrobat who can do fantastic flips. Expanding sentences and scavenger hunts for the year. Guidelines are provided to teach children the challenging task of making sentences more interesting with descriptive words and or with a more complex format.
Tiered sentence combining, atlas, 2014 6 tiered sentence combining is based on these sources of evidence in the following ways. Color picture pages along with specific instructions provide a means of evoking interesting and descriptive sentences from students. Combining, expanding, and reducing sentences worksheets. Combine, expand, and reduce sentences fifth grade english. Expanding sentences 8 sets bundled is a language arts activity to get your students moving around the classroom. Worktexts click book cover to go to publishers description. Expanding and combining sentences by toomey, marilyn m and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Tiered sentence combining tillamook bay community college. Combining sentences worksheets combining sentences compound subject and verbearly elementary worksheet combining sentences to join ideasmiddle grades worksheet combining sentences with coordinating conjunctions2nd5th grades worksheet combining sentences with items in a seriesmid to late elementary worksheet.
Guides for particular types of sentence combinations are given. It offers strategies and exercises for combining short sentences into longer, more complex ones. Building skills through reading and writing by deborah dean sentence combining occurs in two different ways. Colorful picture pages along with specific instructions in this book provide a means of evoking interesting descriptive sentences from students. Students will be shown a way to build interesting descriptive sentences using colour cues. For students who talk or write in simple, uninteresting choppy sentences, this book will open gateways to success in language and literacy. For students who are already able to talk or write in simple, choppy sentences, this book will open gateways to success in language and. Activities encouraging combining simple sentences into larger, more interesting sentences are provided. Jun 18, 2012 ms omara and mr butt guide you through how to expand a sentence to improve you english writing grade. Showing top 8 worksheets in the category expanding reducing and combining sentences.
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. The seagull flew over my head and landed on the roof. This week we finish up expanding, combining and reducing sentences and move onto dialects. These seasonalholidaythemed scavenger hunts are the perfect activities that get your students moving around the classroom while t. Sentence expanding exercises are often used in conjunction with sentence combining and sentenceimitation exercises. Sentence combining skill is something that will develop over several short practice sessions and should be considered as one component of an overall writing program. Shauna springer lead covid19 town hall april 1, 2020 duration. Review coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs, to see the relationships you can show when combining sentences. Sentence combining classroom strategies reading rockets. Combining, expanding, and reducing sentences combing, reducing, and expanding sentences is something everyone does in their daily life and without even being quite aware of it. By learning this skill, students enhance their writing style.
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