Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond: With Integrated Readings, Sixth Edition
SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND BEYOND is the first in the popular two-level Brandon series. Written in an informal, engaging tone, this easy-to-use text incorporates sentence-level grammar and mechanics with in-depth instruction in the writing process and patterns of writing. Reading instruction offers students the opportunity to analyze readings and practice the reading-based writing required in academic environments. Students will master common writing patterns while learning to use texts as a springboard for their own writing in the form of summary, reaction, or response.
This book offers a lively introduction to the research methods and techniques available to English language teachers who wish to investigate aspects of their own practice. It covers qualitative and quantitative methodology and includes sections on observation, introspection, diary studies, experiments, interviews, questionnaires, numerical techniques, and case study research.
Promoting Independent Learning in the Primary Classroom
From birth, human beings are striving to make sense of the world. They learn through interaction, modelling first hand experience and independent action. Most children arrive at school with the notion that being independent and having the desire to take responsibility has been seen, in their homes, as a good thing. However, what often happens is that responsibility may be denied them in school and further bids for independence are viewed as negative behaviour.
SENTENCE COMBINING WORKBOOK uses sentence-combining techniques to help you develop confidence in your writing at the sentence level and practice communicating your ideas in clear sentence structures. Each unit focuses on a specific sentence-level technique, followed by a set of sentence-combining exercises involving a narrative story or factual topic. Through this innovative story-telling approach, students will practice viewing individual sentences as part of a larger context and develop sentence expansion skills.
