STUDENT ACTIVITIES FROM "GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS": A Sentence-Composing Toolbox (SENTENCE COMPOSING SERIES)

GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS: A Sentence-Composing Toolbox.Who are the "greats"? Famous authors, whose sentences are the basis for all activities.What are their tools? Grammatical structures those authors use much more than students.What gets put in the students' toolbox? The tools authors use to build sentences.What is the purpose of the book? To narrow the sentence gap between students and authors.In thousands of classrooms within and beyond the United States, Don and Jenny Killgallon’s sentence-composing method has given students tools to become better writers. By focusing on the sentence, the Killgallons in their numerous textbooks for students--all levels, from upper elementary through college--changed the way teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing.FOR YOUR STUDENTS: An affordable companion textbook titled STUDENT ACTIVITIES FROM GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS: A Sentence-Composing Toolbox, available as a paper book or ebook, contains all student activities from the Teacher's Edition of GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS.This worktext teaches through varied practices the sentence-building tools that authors (the "GREATS") use to build sentences, using only sentences by a multitude of authors as the basis for activities.The practices in the sentence-composing approach help students write better because they consist exclusively of authors’ sentences instead of artificial, contrived sentences in grammar textbooks written to illustrate a grammatical structure rather than the effective use of that structure. The many authors’ sentences in the GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS illustrate the effective application of grammatical structures, or "applied grammar." Read more