Herb Hrebic will be conducting two workshops at the 2006 Southwest Homeschool Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. Friday, July 28th, 6:45pm in Room 104 AND Saturday, July 29th, 11:30am in Room 106. Learn more...
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Written by Larry Lewin and Tanis Knight, Tap the Deck integrates
sentence combining techniques into process-oriented writing
assignments. Besides oral language and sentence combining units, young
writers practice ten major writing assignments. Scoring rubrics in the
teacher’s manual are provided for each prompt.
Key Features:
Young writers narrate about a remembered place from the past,
describe a favorite animal, solve a problem, argue an opinion, narrate
a chase scene, explain a situation, write a letter to a 2nd grader,
describe creatively from the point of view of shoes, narrate about a
peevish problem, and report on an invention.
Oral language activities enable students to unscramble sentences,
play with a language machine, create new names (sniglets), coin verbs,
discuss unusual meanings of words, and discuss idioms.
Sentence manipulatory skills – combining, rearranging, and
expanding – are taught as a writer’s vocabulary to help with sentence
fluency and are reinforced in the writing process.
Specific units on identifying and correcting FRAGMENTS and RUN-ONS aid students in eliminating these common errors.
Special publishing activities are provided for each assignment –
displaying on a bulletin board, drawing an illustration, reading aloud,
or creating a class booklet for open house.
The invention report teaches students how to write a report without plagiarizing.
Scope and Sequence
Oral Language:
Sentence sense
The language machine
New names – sniglets
Coining new verbs
Flexible words
Unusual meanings – idioms
Reading aloud – all stages of the writing process
Sentence Combining – Sentence Fluency:
Journalistic questions – expanding
Rearranging
Supporting ideas by expanding
The Big Challenge – expanding
Supporting ideas – details
Combining with and, but, and or
Combining with verbs
Combining with colorful words
Combining with glue words, locators words, and ING words
Fragments and run-ons
The Writing Process:
Narrating a memory of a remembered place
Describing an animal
Problem-solving – persuasion
Observing – narration
Explaining – choices
Describing creatively
Persuading – opinion paper
Writing about yourself
Narrating a pet peeve
Report writing - inventions
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