Many programs teach students how to write different text types, like narratives, recounts and procedures. But all texts – regardless of their length and difficulty level – are composed of sentences.
In our experience, many students (even in high school) lack the ability to link their ideas together and to express sophisticated thoughts and feelings in complex sentences.
This 650+ page workbook includes scaffolded writing practice to help students of all ages generate a variety of complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions, including:
- "because" - for cause and effect relationships;
- "although" - for contrastive relationships;
- "if", "unless" and "until" - for conditional relationships; and
- "while", "before" and "after" - for relationships between events connected by time.
For each conjunction, sentence fragment exercises have been included to kick-start complex sentence writing. To support people with additional language and learning needs, the modules feature topics that require a minimal amount of background knowledge, and include examples and scaffolds to help model and support students of all abilities.
The resources also includes a sentence writing bootcamp to improve students' sentence-writing skills with specific verbs, nouns, place and time details, and reasons.
This workbook is suitable for students learning English as an additional language; students with language and learning challenges; students who are being home-schooled; students who haven’t yet learned to write compound sentences for any reason; and reluctant writers.
The workbook is low pressure, and completely self-paced.
If you'd prefer to learn with scripted modules and writing scaffolds, audio and video demonstrations, a sequenced writing workbook, lots of guided practice opportunities using easy to spell words, and an explicit “I do, we do, you do” course structure, check out our Complex Sentence Cup: How to Write Complex Sentences.
