Why use sentence combining with your students?
- Sentence combining is a good way for students to become more knowledgeable and confident with sentence structure and a good way to teach simple structures.
- Research shows that sentence combining practice improves student writing.
- Sentence combining provides an opportunity for students to learn basic grammar and sentence structure through hands on use, rather than learning rules and complex grammatical terminology.
- Virtually every question on the writing skills section of the HSE exam involves sentence combining.
This simple guide will help teachers put sentence combining into practice immediately.
