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Improve your learners' writing skills!
This clearly written, accessible guide outlines the principles of sentence combining – the technique for expanding sentence structure by creating compound and complex sentences from simple sentences. Sentence combining is the one aspect of grammar teaching that has been demonstrated through research to improve the quality of learners’ writing.
Along the way it will demystify syntax by explaining the basics of sentence structure and conjunctions, equipping practitioners with underpinning knowledge that empowers them to confidently deliver effective teaching of writing skills.
Written, uniquely, with the adult literacy practitioner and the requirements of the Core Curriculum in mind, Grammar for Sentence Combining is an essential reference book for adult literacy practitioners, teacher training courses and continuing professional development.
About the author
Dr Maxine Burton is a visiting research associate at the Institute of Education, London. She is an experienced adult literacy practitioner and trainer, and linguistics teacher. She is the author of several adult literacy handbooks, including the NIACE publication Phonetics for Phonics: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners.
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Phonetics for Phonics: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners. Also buy as an e-book
This clearly written, accessible guide outlines the principles of sentence combining – the technique for expanding sentence structure by creating compound and complex sentences from simple sentences. Sentence combining is the one aspect of grammar teaching that has been demonstrated through research to improve the quality of learners’ writing.
Along the way it will demystify syntax by explaining the basics of sentence structure and conjunctions, equipping practitioners with underpinning knowledge that empowers them to confidently deliver effective teaching of writing skills.
Written, uniquely, with the adult literacy practitioner and the requirements of the Core Curriculum in mind, Grammar for Sentence Combining is an essential reference book for adult literacy practitioners, teacher training courses and continuing professional development.
About the author
Dr Maxine Burton is a visiting research associate at the Institute of Education, London. She is an experienced adult literacy practitioner and trainer, and linguistics teacher. She is the author of several adult literacy handbooks, including the NIACE publication Phonetics for Phonics: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners.
Browse inside, share, and buy as an e-book
To browse selected pages inside this book, purchase as an e-book from us at http://ebooks.niace.org.uk, and share details with others, please click on the links in the widget below:
Also available in this series:
Phonetics for Phonics: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners. Also buy as an e-book
Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction
How to use this book
Chapter 1: Why sentence combining for adults?
Chapter 2: What is grammar?
Chapter 3: What is a sentence?
Chapter 4: What is a conjunction?
Chapter 5: How does sentence combining work in practice? Some guidelines for the classroom
Chapter 6: Sentence combining and the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum
Chapter 7: What about different varieties of English? Issues of dialect and register
References
Glossary