“Sentence composing provides acrobatic training in sentence dexterity…using literature as a writing school with a faculty of professional writers who virtually teach students to build better sentences.”

—Don and Jenny Killgallon

• Extenders to enlarge meaning within a sentence
• Identifiers to identify someone or something
• Describers to describe someone or something
• Elaborators to add details for full understanding
• Combos to combine tools within a sentence

Along the way, Don and Jenny Killgallon provide help for students, including:

• Basic sentence ideas—Activities to understand subjects, predicates, and their relationship to those five tools
• Broken sentences—Exercises to identify, avoid, and repair fragments
• Vocabulary scaffolds—“Quickshots” to include an immediate, clear definition in context for challenging words.