Mark Pennington

Posted on 7/02/09

Sentence combining in all of its forms is wonderful. I have
students take the "kernel" and add to it a different grammatical
sentence opener. I have a neat list of these with examples at
http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/grammar_mechanics/how-to-
improve-your-writing-style-with-grammatical-sentence-openers/
What a great way to teach grammar in the writing context.

Any more examples of teaching sentence variety with connected
instructional approaches? On 7/02/09, curiositycat wrote:
> Sentence combining is great for that. You can create "kernel"
> sentences from sentences taken from texts that the students
> are reading for class. After they've combined the sentences in
> a variety of ways, reveal the original text and discuss the
> effect that the author's choice of style has on the reader.
>
> On 7/02/09, Mark Pennington wrote:
>> The College Board lists sentence variety front and center
>> in their writing rubrics. Aside from direct grammar
>> instruction via DOL, workbooks, and diagramming, what
>> instructional techniques work best for teaching sentence
>> variety in the context of student writing?

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