Discipline: Professional Resources, Literacy
Copyright: 2006
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Delivery Method: Print
Province: National
Imprint: Heinemann
Author(s): Don Killgallon, Jenny Killgallon
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach
This text gives your students the chance to absorb and replicate the grammatical structures used by some of the best writers of our times. Included among the over 150 authors, 200 titles, and 400 model sentences in this book are award-winning young-adult literature such as Cynthia Voigt’s Homecoming, popular favourites like J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, and curricular staples such as John Steinbeck’s The Red Pony and The Pearl.
Fourteen grammatical structures are developed in the same predictable, understandable manner, using the sentence-composing approach. When students first encounter a tool, it is clearly defined and characterized. Then it’s practiced through five activities: matching, unscrambling, combining, imitating, and expanding. Finally, a creative writing activity immerses students in the composition or revision of a paragraph through independent use of the sentence-composing tools they have already learned.