1. Improving children’s sentence constructions Workshop 3

2. Introduction • Constructing well-formed sentences is an important element of writing, but many children struggle with this skill • This summary provides evidence from a small-scale study* of an approach that improved children’s ability to construct sentences • It involved direct practice of sentence-combining along with working collaboratively with classmates *Saddler, B., Asaro, K., & Behforooz, B. (2008) The effects of peer-assisted sentence combining practice on four young writers with learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities: A contemporary Journal 6 (1) pp.17-31