It's always a challenge to get 7th graders to provide more detail and this is a great resource to help them understand how they can do so. I could see this being used as a bell ringer, whole-class instruction, or as a resource for struggling writers when differentiating instruction. - ...
Let’s first begin with the obvious: Teaching complex sentences is well,…complex. It’s one of those blocks that builds on previous blocks. Students must have an understanding of foundational sentence skills before even attempting to write or understand complex sentences. All this to say is tha...