Improving children

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Improving childrens sentence constructions

• Workshop 3

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Introduction

• Constructing well-formed sentences is an
  important element of writing, but many children
  struggle with this skill
• This summary provides evidence from a small-scale
  study of an approach that improved childrens
  ability to construct sentences
• It involved direct practice of sentence-combining
  along with working collaboratively with
  classmates
• Saddler, B., Asaro, K., Behforooz, B. (2008)
  The effects of peer-assisted sentence combining
  practice on four young writers with learning
  disabilities. Learning Disabilities A
  contemporary Journal 6 (1) pp.17-31