[MOSAIC] Sentence Combining

[Beverlee Paul]

Yes, I've used this technique for many years and I still love it.  I've used 
it more with second graders, but also with first graders on an individual 
basis.

Waaaay back when, Bill Martin did great work with this in most anything he 
wrote, but I'm especially thinking of the teacher's guides of his Sounds of 
Language series that, I THINK, was published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 
  If you can ever get any of those materials, do; they're worth their weight 
in gold.  Personally, I've thought many times of Bill Martin the last 5 
years.  I'm so glad he was still alive to see that we as a profession 
finally caught on to what he was telling us for decades about sounds of 
language and teaching kids to read.  And I'm even happier that he didn't get 
to see the gigantic 3 and 1/2 decade leap backwards the profession has made 
since his death.

The other resource that would be helpful for this is to get a high school 
teacher's composition textbook.  With the background from the workshop you 
attended, you will be able to transfer the concepts from that to whatever 
level you need.

Good luck!



I saw a demonstration of this from a professor from Florida (I think) at the
CATE conference in the spring.  It was fascinating how she managed to get us
to take teeny tiny sentences, like what many of my kids write, and turn them
into a good meaty sentence very similar to the original in Across Five
Aprils.

I understand this is NOT a new technique.  She used it for revision, ELD
students, and reading comprehension.

kxhanna at fresno.k12.ca.us

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