Combining Teaching, Service & Research. Event description How do faculty establish and maintain a productive research agenda while balancing the demands of service and effective ...

The effect of grammar teaching (sentence combining) in English on 5 to 16 year olds? accuracy and quality in written composition

Teaching sentence combining Writing & Language Arts ... I am beginning to teach sentence combining to my 5th grade students. This group really responds well to hands on activities.

In ?Teaching Syntactic Maturity,? Hunt reports: ?John Mellon conducted the first major experiment in teaching sentence-combining; his subjects were about 250 seventh graders.

If you're curious, here is the sentence that served as the original model for this little combining exercise: Our high school Latin teacher was a tiny, birdlike woman, swarthy, with ...