Paragraph Series


"This series goes to higher ground by zooming in on authors' paragraphs through the sentence-composing approach. Throughout, emphasis is on elaboration-perhaps the biggest area for improvement in students' writing." -Don and Jenny Killgallon 
Following the success of their Sentence-Composing series and their Grammar: A Sentence-Composing Approach series, Don and Jenny Killgallon present a new series, Paragraphs: A Sentence-Composing Approach. PARAGRAPHS FOR HIGH SCHOOL: A Sentence-Composing Approach This worktext gives students new tools to write mature and varied sentences through imitating models by authors like John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, J.D. Salinger, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and many others. Now, in this worktext, the Killgallons take the approach a step further by teaching students tools authors use to build paragraphs. Using four power tools for building better sentences—the identifier, the elaborator, the describer, and the combo—and five techniques for building better paragraphs—unscrambling, imitating, assembling, combining, and expanding—students achieve a goal of good writing: elaboration. Through the activities in this book, students-- learn, practice, and use tools that foster elaboration in paragraphs; imitate how their favorite authors build sentences and paragraphs; learn new punctuation marks to expand the way ideas can be expressed. With recognizable authors as their mentors, students build confidence as their writing becomes more meaningful and masterful.
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PARAGRAPHS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL: A Sentence-Composing Approach This worktext gives students new tools to write mature and varied sentences through imitating models by authors like Louis Sachar, Suzanne Collins, Gary Paulsen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Carl Hiassen, Rick Riordan, J. K. Rowling, and many others. Now, in this worktext, the Killgallons take the approach a step further by teaching students tools authors use to build paragraphs. Using power tools in four places to build better sentences—the opener, the S-V split, the closer, and the mix—and four techniques for building better paragraphs—expanding paragraphs, imitating paragraphs, unscrambling paragraphs, and building paragraphs—students achieve a goal of good writing: elaboration. Through the activities in this book, students-- imitate how their favorite authors build sentences and paragraphs eliminate common sentence boundary problems--fragments, run-ons, comma splices learn, practice, and use the tools that foster elaboration in paragraphs. With recognizable authors as their mentors, students build confidence as their writing becomes more meaningful and masterful.
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PARAGRAPHS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: A Sentence-Composing Approach Don and Jenny Killgallons’ bestselling sentence-composing approach has successfully taught upper-elementary students to write mature and varied sentences through imitating C.S. Lewis, Jerry Spinelli, Suzanne Collins, Gary Paulsen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Rick Riordan, J. K. Rowling, and many others. Now, in this worktext, the Killgallons take the approach a step further by teaching upper-elementary students to build paragraphs. Using subjects, predicates, and sentence composing tools, students learn and practice what good sentences look like before moving on to imitate strong paragraphs written by established authors —their “fitness trainers in writing.” The activities in this worktext help students--
· learn and use the sentence-composing tools that foster elaboration in paragraphs
· recognize and imitate how their favorite authors build sentences and paragraphs
· practice composing paragraphs for different purposes. With well-known and well-loved authors as their mentors, students build confidence as their writing becomes more meaningful and mature.
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