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