Sentence Combining: How to Teach It in 5 Minutes a Day
Read a stack of 3rd grade writing, and you will see the same pattern over and over: “The dog ran. The dog was fast. The dog went to the park.”…
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Morphology Morning Work: Daily Word-Part Practice
When a student hits a word like “unbreakable” and freezes, the fix usually isn’t sounding it out one more time. It’s seeing that the word is built from parts: un,…
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Nonfiction Daily Sentence Practice to Support Paragraph Writing
Most nonfiction sentence practice looks the same: a worksheet with a few unrelated sentences to fix, expand, or combine. Students complete the task and flip it over. The sentences don’t connect to…
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Daily Sentence Practice with Connected Stories for 3rd & 4th Grades
There is a stack of sentences waiting for students every morning in many 3rd- and 4th-grade classrooms. Students fix them, turn them over, and forget them by lunch. Daily sentence practice has…
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