Sentence-combining requires students to combine multiple sentences into a single – usually more complex – sentence. There’s good evidence that doing it improves students’ writing skills at sentence and text levels. Why it matters One of the main reasons students go to primary school is to learn to write. If you can’t put your ideas…
A simple sentence is a sentence consisting of one main clause that contains a verb and (almost always) a subject, e.g.: Students are expected to write simple sentences within the first couple of years of school. But some older students can’t, including many students with language disorders (like DLD) and learning disorders (including dysgraphia) in…
Balthazar & Scott (2018) radically transformed my approach to oral language therapy. Balthazar & Scott (2024) have done it again – this time with my writing instruction. Here’s why I don’t skimp on complex sentence work when teaching students to listen, speak, read, and write: Many school communication activities are pitched at the text or…
In the first part of the resource, we provide 20 fully-worked sentence examples to help teachers, speech pathologists and parents to model a variety of “so” sentences to students in a focused and time-efficient way.
In the second part of the resource, we provide an additional 20 pairs of photographs complete with ‘sentence starters’ so that students can have a turn at generating their own “so” sentences.
In the first part of the resource, we provide 20 fully-worked sentence examples to help teachers, speech pathologists and parents to model a variety of “if” sentences to students in a focused and time-efficient way.
In the second part of the resource, we provide an additional 20 pairs of photographs complete with ‘sentence starters’ so that students can have a turn at generating their own “if” sentences.
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