Thys Boke is Myne - Sarah Powley
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Mar 26, 2007
Our focus right now is on sentence fluency-sentence
beginnings. My grade 7 students are experiencing
difficulty writing inverted sentences. I though they could
do it, but after giving them a Sentence Beginnings
paragraph challenge (begin one sentence with a preposition,
one with an "ly" adverb, one with an adjective, etc), I
realized they aren't ready for that. I teach in an
international school, but technically they are ESL
students. Any ideas for a mini-lesson that doesn't involve
rewriting sentences?
Thanks
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Why not have them go on a hunt, first? They could search for
writers who begin sentences in a wide variety of ways, come
up with a list themselves, and then combine all the lists
for a giant resource of examples that may be helpful in
teaching sf in the future. They could group them--these ones
begin wit...See More