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Aug 3, 2006
I've just finished planning my "Sentence fluency" trait and
there's something I'm still a little fuzzy about. In Ruth
Culham's book she talks about teaching the students to
start their sentences different ways, which makes sense.
But then there's a lesson on "resounding refrains" in which
she uses Mem Fox's "Tough Boris" as an example. In this
text, many sentences begin with "All pirates...." I
completely get how this is fluent, but how do you teach
that to kids without confusing them when you've just taught
them that sentences should begin in different ways? Thanks,
Alta
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Hi Alta Rose...
I teach it using prepositional phrase poems. There's a
pretty good write up of this lesson at WritingFix.org's
Sentence Fluency lesson page.
I also teach cadence ("resounding refrains") by having my
students write a series of sentences using the same
subordinate clause at th...See More