Sentence Composing

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Sentence Composing

• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
• E. Coerr

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Chunking to Imitate

• Model She made a big crane out of her prettiest
  paper and sent it across the hall to his room.
• Chunked She made a big crane / out of her
  prettiest paper / and sent it across the hall /
  to his room.
• Imitation
• Sadako and the Thousand
  Paper Cranes, Coerr

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Unscrambling

• wheeled her out Sadako was feeling
• for some sunshine especially tired one day
• when Nurse Yasunaga when Nurse Yasunga
• Sadako was feeling wheeled her out onto the
• especially tired one day porch for some
• out onto the porch sunshine.

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Unscrambling cued with punctuation

• so that the spirits That night Sadako
• That night watched her
• put a lantern outside mother put a
• Sadako watched lantern outside so
• her mother that the spirits
• could find their way could find their
• in the dark. way in the dark.

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Unscrambling to imitate

• Model The air was filled with smells of
  delicious holiday food.
• List Imitation
• was filled with The room was filled
• the room with smells of several
• smells burning candles.
• of several burning candles

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Unscrambling to imitateyour turn

• Model They floated out to sea like a swarm of
  fireflies against the dark water.
• List Imitation
• into the night sky
• They flew
• against the dark sky
• like a swarm of lightening bugs

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Combining to imitate

• Model They floated out to sea like a swarm of
  fireflies against the dark water.
• List Imitation
• They floated out to sea.
• They looked like a swarm of lightening bugs.
• They were against the dark water.