<p><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;">Following the success of their Sentence-Composing series and their Grammar: A Sentence-Composing Approach series, Don and Jenny Killgallon present a new series, Paragraphs: A Sentence-Composing Approach.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">Paragraphs for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach</span></em><span style="font-size: 12px;"> gives students new tools to write mature and varied sentences through imitating models by authors like Louis Sachar, Suzanne Collins, Gary Paulsen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Carl Hiassen, Rick Riordan, J. K. Rowling, and many others. Now, in this worktext, the Killgallons take the approach a step further by teaching students tools authors use to build paragraphs.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;">Using power tools in four places to build better sentences-<em>the opener, the S-V split, the closer, </em>and <em>the mix</em>-and four techniques for building better paragraphs-<em>expanding paragraphs, imitating paragraphs, unscrambling paragraphs, </em>and <em>building paragraphs</em>-students achieve a goal of good writing: elaboration. Through the activities in this book, students:<br /> </span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;">imitate how their favorite authors build sentences and paragraphs </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;">eliminate common sentence boundary problems--fragments, run-ons, comma splices </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;">learn, practice, and use the tools that foster elaboration in paragraphs.</span> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial;">With recognizable authors as their mentors, students build confidence as their writing becomes more meaningful and masterful. <br /> <br /> <strong>Download the </strong><br /> <br /> <br /> <strong>SAVE $19.50 when you buy in a 10 Pack! </strong><strong> for more details.</strong></span></p>