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, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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