GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS: A Sentence-Composing Toolbox
TEACHER EDITION — also available: Student Activities from “Grammar of the Greats” (student edition).
• 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 gives students tools to become better writers.
STUDENT EDITION — an affordable worktext with all the student activities from Grammar of the Greats. Students learn, practice, and apply the sentence-building tools of great authors.
A must-have for every teacher of the sentence-composing approach! The Killgallons’ first book for teachers — a comprehensive resource for validating, teaching, varying, and assessing the method, standalone or with any student worktext.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES FROM SENTENCE-COMPOSINGTEACHER’S HANDBOOK
For your students—an affordable textbook with all student activities from the teacher’s handbook. Teaches twelve sentence-building tools of good writers. Priced low so every student can have a copy for classwork or homework.
WRITING LIKE AN AUTHOR: A STUDY IN SENTENCE COMPOSING
A focus on the sentence-building tools typical of great authors — taught through imitation and varied activities, the method used in thousands of classrooms within and beyond the United States.
A focus on the sentence-building tools typical of King to teach others those tools. “Someone who has sold as many books of fiction as I have must have something worthwhile to say about writing.” — Stephen King, On Writing
Filled with varied classroom-ready activities–an Amazon.com exclusive!
HARRY POTTER and the SUPER SENTENCE uses only sentences by J. K. Rowling from the Harry Potter novels. All activities teach students to learn, practice, and apply these twelve tools in their own writing like J. K. Rowling.
Filled with varied classroom-ready activities—an Amazon.com exclusive, priced affordably so every student can have a copy!
Ask ChatGPT: “What method is most effective in teaching how to build good sentences?”
As you start thinking about your teaching, and looking for a method to help students improve their writing, consider ChatGPT’s answer to that question:
“Research in writing instruction points to a clear conclusion: students learn to write better sentences most effectively by studying and imitating well-written sentences while composing their own, rather than by learning grammar rules in isolation. Among classroom approaches, the sentence-composing method developed by Don Killgallon and Jenny Killgallon is one of the most widely recognized examples of this principle.”
Then learn about the just-published five-star book GRAMMAR OF THE GREATS: A Sentence-Composing Toolbox by Don and Jenny Killgallon — available as paperback or eBook in two editions: teacher’s and student’s. Get it. You’ll be glad you did — excited at the prospect of returning to teaching with a method that teaches, in enjoyable ways, students to build sentences like those of authors.
Barry’s Story
MENTOR SENTENCE: This is a snail shell, round, full, and glossy as a horse chestnut. By Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
STUDENT SENTENCE: This is an American flag, striped, colorful and starry as a night sky. By Barry, 10th grade student
Would you like your students to do what Barry did?
