[MOSAIC] Sentence Combining

[kimberlee hannan]

The prof who demo-ed it went from the smaller pieces to the larger piece.
She took her sentences directly from the kids' writing.  The one she took
from the novel made the meaning scaffold in a way, adding a new part each
round.  She doesn't tell the kids where the paragraph is in the novel.  They
discover it on their own, and the familiarity opens the discussion (I
assume).

Never mind about the books on the subject.  Just hashing it out by telling
you folks, I am pretty sure I know what I want to do with it...thanks for
allowing me to think aloud.
Kim

On 7/5/07, thomas <sally.thomas4 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> So would you call sentence combining the exercise of taking separate
> sentences (say either from a predetermined series of grammatical
> constructions that you want kids to try out and/or from kids' writing and
> you want them to consider variations) and comabining them for various
> effects?  Just curious about the difference....starting from the smalller
> parts and making a whole?
>
> Or starting with a whole and using that whole to create an experience by
> breaking it down into kernel sentences and then having kids experiment
> with
> putting them back together?  Not sure if I made clear that the kids had
> not
> seen the author's sentences.  I broke them down into kernel sentences and
> they worked on combining those in various ways which we talked about
> before
> actually seeing what the author had done.
>
> Just confused.
>
> On 7/5/07 5:39 AM, "Mlredcon at aol.com" <Mlredcon at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > thank you S ally for your explanation.  I would not call this strategy
> > sentence combining.  It sounds more like sentence innovation-taking a
> > sentence
> > from a text and making it your own.
> > Maxine
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resno, California 93702


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