Sentence Composing for Middle School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity

by Don Killgallon

Book Overview

With the first edition of his book, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this revised edition, Killgallon presents the same proven methodology but offers all-new writing exercises designed specifically for the middle school student. Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize the parsing of sentences, this worktext asks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867094192
• ISBN13: 9780867094190
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource for teaching Grammar

I first learned about this author at a CATE Conference in 2001. I hestitated at first, but after boring my students with other methods I tried the sentence composing approach Killgallon uses and the results were excellent. The kids not only enjoyed learning the grammar but they actually asked to do the sentence composing. The students saw the sentence composing as a puzzle to be solved instead of another boring lesson on the parts of speech and the usage of punctuation.