Writing+Skills

__** Writing Skills Strategies **__ __**Suggestions to help with writing more complex sentences:**__
 * Give the student several short sentences and have him/her combine them to make one longer sentence.
 * **Example**: "The dog is big." "The dog is brown." "The dog is mine." becomes "The big, brown dogp is mine."
 * Have students build a sentence with family members or friends. ake sure someone writes down the words that are being said. The first person starts with a word such as "I". The next person adds the second word such as "like." This process continues as long as possible to create one long, complex sentence.
 * Using a wordless picture book, have the student write a story, encouraging the use of longer, more complex sentences.

__**Suggestions to help with complete sentences and expressing complete thoughts:**__
 * Model writing complete sentences and complete thoughts. This could be done by journaling back and forth. You could write a journal entry and then your child has to write back.
 * Check written work at various points throught the assignment to make certain they are using complete sentences and complete thoughts.
 * Give the student a series of written phrases and have him/her indicate which ones express a complete thought.
 * Give the student scrambled words and have him/her put them in the correct order to form a complete thought.
 * Have the student correct a series of phrases by making each a complete sentence.

__**Suggestions to help with organizing writing activities:**__
 * Have the student arrange a series of statements on a topic in an appropriate order so that they make sense in a paragraph.
 * Provide the student with a paragraph in which a statement does not belong. Have the student find the inappropriate statement.
 * Have the student read a short story and then list the events of the story. From that list, have the student construct a paragraph using the correct sequence of events.