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How to Build Writing Success Sentence by Sentence

The technical knowledge and techniques for effective teaching

How to Build Writing Success Sentence by Sentence is written by highly regarded author Dr Christine Braid with foreword by Dr Helen Walls (The Writing Teacher).

The sentence is a key building block for overall improvement in writing yet the technical details can seem daunting to some teachers as well as their students. This resource offers a research-based approach that has proven successful in the classroom in progressing students’ skills with sentences across Years 1 to 8.

Recognising that teachers need to understand sentence structure to teach sentence writing effectively, this book sets out essential technical knowledge in an accessible way, with examples from classroom practice. From this foundation, it then offers a wealth of ideas for teaching by drawing on the expertise of published authors. Engaging texts from skilled writers demonstrate a range of effective sentence-writing techniques and provide students with both support and inspiration as they develop their writing craft.

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Ages: 5-13 | Pages: 86 | Code: 51266 | ISBN: 9781991134325

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Christine Braid

Dr Christine Braid has 40 years’ experience as an educator, including 12 years as a classroom teacher and 25 years as a teacher educator with a focus on literacy teaching. In her academic studies, she has specialised in literacy: she has a Diploma of Children’s Literature, her MEd thesis looked at using picture books for developing comprehension discussion with older primary students and her PhD examined the influence of teacher knowledge and practice on literacy outcomes for new primary students. Combining her practical and her experience, Christine works with teachers to promote systematic and explicit teaching and to provide opportunities for incidental learning. Christine has a particular enthusiasm for finding ways to inspire teachers and children using books.

Contents

Foreword

3

Introduction

6

Overview of this book6
A guide to icons in this book6

1 Background theory and research

7

The reasons behind the sentence focus for writing8
Breaking the demand down9
Sentence combining: Not a drill9

2 Building teacher knowledge and getting started

11

Sentence types11
Explaining a sentence12
The technical knowledge and the techniques16
Getting started with teaching at the sentence level19
Building the demand up23
Punctuation29
Intentionally joining clauses – an overview30
Intentionally joining clauses – using coordinating conjunctions to make
compound sentences 31 Intentionally joining clauses – using subordinating
conjunctions to make complex sentences 35 Interrupting the clause41
The relative pronoun42
Summarising sentence knowledge and teaching points44

3 Mentor texts and author techniques

45

Moving beyond the formula to try out techniques45
What authors teach us45
Examining the whole text47
Looking for the simple sentence49
Using poems54
Some techniques from texts to try55
Dialogue59
Expanding word choice59

4 Supporting a progression and addressing common errors

70

Sentence goals by year group70
Common technical errors and possible feedback73

In conclusion

77

Support materials

78

Parts of speech and what they do78
An overview of sentence structure81

References

82

Children’s texts82

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