Foundation
What is the foundation of writing?
What are Sentences?
Students should practice these orally as in writing.
What are sentence level activities?
This introduces a dependent clause and signals the relationship between that clause and the main idea.
What is a subordinating conjunction
This practice promotes sentence boundaries and serves as a vocabulary check.
What is unscrambling sentences?
What will help students from writing the way they speak to using the structure of written language?
What is sentence level work?
It is a group of words that is not a grammatically complete sentence.
What is a fragment?
When introducing students to the first subordinating conjunctions they will encounter?
What are before, after, if and when?
When unscrambling sentences avoid these?
What are too many function words and too many words.
When writing students should have sufficient of this to write intelligently about a subject.
What is background knowledge?
It is a group of words that includes a subject and a predicate and that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
Once students are familiar with distinguishing fragments from sentences through oral practice it is time to?
What is having students practice with written examples?
Practicing this will enable students to vary sentence structure when writing a paragraph or essay
What are sentence types?
When working with level 1 students you may need to start by teaching them to do this.
What is to begin each sentence with a capital and end it with a period?
Initially when you give examples of these it is best to present them orally than in writing.
What are fragments and sentences?
When converting fragments into complete sentences students should not forget?
What is to write appropriate capitalization and punctuation?
These are the four types of setences
What are declarative, imperative, interrogative and exclamatory?