Group+4+Sentence+Combining


 * Sentence Combining** is a way to express information and ideas from several sentences into one.

Strategies:
 * Students can revise their own papers and look for examples in their own writing so that they can correlate what they learned in a text to what they are actually doing as a writer.
 * The instructor can provide random samples of writing from various levels in the middle grades and the teacher will facilitate the activity by having students first find examples of areas where sentence combining could be used and then they will work in their own groups to find the rest.
 * Students can get their favorite children book and revise a paragraph from that book to combine sentence.

Short Sentences Example:
 * 1) Once something happened.
 * 2) What happened was that his back happened to be half turned
 * 3) His back was half turned towards the door
 * 4) During this time he heard a noise there
 * 5) Upon hearing the noise he wheeled
 * 6) Also upon hearing the noise he spring up
 * 7) While wheeling and spring up, he was doing something else.
 * 8) He was uttering a cry
 * 9) The cry was loud


 * Answer**: Once his back happened to be half turned toward the door and, hearing a noise there, he wheeled and sprang up, uttering a loud cry.