Many writing programs start at the discourse (or text type) level, with tasks like recounts, procedures, and stories. For many students, however, this is too advanced and sets them up for failure. Texts are made up of paragraphs, and paragraphs are made up of sentences. Let’s start with sentences and work our way up!

In this 340+ page workbook, you will learn how to write simple sentences, using a range of high-frequency sentence structures. Introductory writing exercises include subject-verb (SV), subject-verb-object (SVO), subject-verb-complement (SVC), subject-verb-adverb (SVA), and subject-verb-object-adverbial (SVOA) phrase sentences.