COLLINS INSTITUTE
SEVEN SENTENCE
BUILDING ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP ADVANCED WRITERS
(GRADES 2-10)
For
teachers in grades 2 through 10 in all subject areas, curriculum
coordinators, principals, supervisors, curriculum committee members,
school-based management team members and special educators.
Good teaching involves chunking materials into digestible portions,
and this is especially true in writing. Students are often asked to
write long pieces without any chunking, and these assignments are
frequently accompanied by an overwhelming rubric. This Institute
teaches the foundation of good writing and how to build sentences—one
word, one principle, one structure, one figure of speech, and one
grammatical rule at a time. Your students will love the sentence-building activities and
will be prepared to move on to more sophisticated
writing issues. If teachers ask, “Where do I begin with these kids?”
this workshop will set the table.
In addition, sentence building
creates a strong foundation for the Common Core Standards in language and writing. Argument, informative, and narrative writing will reach
higher levels because students will have a solid understanding of
conventions, structure, style, and voice.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
HOW TO . . .
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Eliminate fragments and run-ons in student
writing
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Employ the rules and principles of good
writing from Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style in your
classroom
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Present the structures of sentences in a
logical way that students understand and incorporate into their
writing
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Use figures of speech to add a “wow
effect” to student writing
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Motivate students to write clear,
compelling sentences that will increase their scores on high
stakes tests
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Teach Focus Correction Areas using
Essential Conventions Check Mate
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Integrate Sentence Building and the
Collins Writing Program
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Implement a six- to eight-week plan to
achieve all of the above
NOTE: A one
graduate credit option is available for our
two
day institutes through Endicott College in Beverly, MA,
at $50.
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