Learning Strategies Curriculum Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy Instructor's Manual

The instructions in the Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy Instructor's Manual are designed for teaching students who already have a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms (e.g., subject, verb, infinitive, preposition). Students will learn more advanced sentence writing skills including writing compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Instruction in this strategy is systematically sequenced so that students who have difficulty learning have ample opportunity to practice identifying and writing different types of sentences. This manual should be used in conjunction with the Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy Student Lessons manual, which contains the Guided Practice learning sheets and Independent Practice learning sheets that are to be completed by students for each lesson. Specific research has shown that students who receive instruction in the Sentence Writing Strategy consistently produce written products that contain 100% complete sentences and at least 40% complicated sentences (i.e., either compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences). In addition, their written products include more words, more sentences, and a greater variety of sentences than those of low achievers who have not received strategy training.