Killgallon, Don and Jenny. Sentence Composing for Elementary School: A Worktext to Build Better Sentences. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. $27.50. Developed by college writing teacher Don Killgallon and secondary writing teacher Jenny Killgallon, this one-year, one-volume course focuses on analyzing and imitating good sentences from accomplished writers. Excellent preparation for the middle-grade years and in line with classical principles of modeling work before asking students to complete it. The course does assume that students have had a basic grammar course. Suitable for fourth-grade
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