Helps students understand concept of a complete sentence & discern sentence boundaries

Helps students understand the meanings of subjects, predicates & prepositional phrases

Encourages careful reading

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps students understand concept of a complete sentence & discern sentence boundaries

Helps students understand the meanings of subjects, predicates & prepositional phrases

Encourages careful reading

Improves & checks comprehension

Hones students’ grasp of the concept of a complete sentence & word order

Reinforces rules of punctuation & capitalization

Improves & checks comprehension (especially good for vocabulary & concepts)

Helps us think about the right order for words in a sentence

Gives us practice with correct punctuation & capitalization

Enables students to vary sentence structure

Provides one way to develop & improve concluding sentences

Encourages students to formulate questions

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps us vary our sentences

Gives us one way to write a topic &/or concluding sentence (T.S. & C.S.)

Encourages students to think about the important features in text

Encourages careful reading

Encourages analytical thinking

Helps students to focus on the key elements

Provides practice in understanding & using expository terms

Helps students anticipate what questions they may be asked

Gets us thinking about what’s important

Helps us ask precise questions for a given answer

Promotes extended responses

Encourages analytical & deeper thinking about text

Fosters careful reading

Provides practice using new vocabulary words

Develops ability to craft linguistically complex sentences using written rather than oral language conventions

Enhances reading comprehension by familiarizing students with more complex syntax & sentence structure

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps us give more information to the reader

Helps us write complex sentences

Helps us think about a reason for, a change of direction from, and an effect of an idea

Makes us better readers

Promotes writing complex sentences

Enables students to vary sentence types

Boosts vocabulary development

Encourages careful reading

Enables students to extend responses

Provides another option for writing topic & concluding sentences

Beginning a sentence with a dependent clause is a written language form

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps us give more information to the reader

Helps us write complex sentences

Helps us vary our sentences

Gives us one way to write a topic &/or concluding sentence (T.S. & C.S.)

Gives us one way to write a Thesis Statement (T)

Helps us write like writers

Makes us better readers

Provides another option for writing & improving topic & concluding sentences, together with sentence types & subordinating conjunctions

Enables students to vary sentence structure

Encourages students to include more info. & add complexity

Promotes formal written language style

Encourages careful reading

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps us give more information to the reader

Helps us write complex sentences

Helps us vary our sentences

Gives us one way to write a topic &/or concluding sentence (T.S. & C.S.)

Gives us one way to write a Specific Statement (S)

Helps us write like writers

Makes us better readers

Most effective method of teaching grammar & usage

Allows students to see various options for crafting complex sentences

Exposes students to varied writing structures & enhances syntactic flexibility & control

Improves our grammar

Improves our understanding of word order

Gives us flexibility with and control of our sentences

Enables students to anticipate what a reader needs to know & to provide that info.

Teaches note-taking strategies (key words & phrases, abbreviations & symbols)

Enables students to craft written language structures

Develops the ability to summarize

Prepares student to revise more effectively

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps us give more information to the reader

Helps us practice note-taking (key words & phrases, abbreviations & symbols)

Helps us write like writers (starting with the “When”)

Helps us summarize

Helps us revise

Enables students to distinguish essential from nonessential info.

Boosts comprehension, absorption & retention

Promotes analytical thinking

Reinforces efficient note-taking skills

Enables students to plan more efficiently before drafting

Helps student paraphrase

Focuses us on what’s most important, less important, and not important

Helps us think about, understand, and remember what we’re learning

Saves us time when planning paragraphs

Gives us practice putting things into our own words

Improves & checks comprehension

Helps generate concise & accurate responses to questions

Maintains focus on the main idea & supporting details

Teaches paraphrasing techniques

Provides practice synthesizing info. from multiple sources

Enhances the ability to analyze info.

Develops the ability to make generalizations

Aids in retaining comprehension

Helps us focus on the main idea

Helps us think about, understand, and remember what we’re learning

Gives us practice putting things into our own words

Makes us better readers

Provides structure (beginning, middle, & end)

Eliminates repetition

Improves adherence to topic

Enables students to distinguish essential from nonessential material

Aids in sequencing

Promotes analytical thinking

Helps us plan before writing a paragraph

Helps us organize and sequence information

Helps us avoid repetition and stay on topic

Focuses us on what’s most important, less important, and not important

Helps us think about, understand, and remember what we’re learning

Helps develop clarity & coherence

Enables students to use sentence strategies when writing at length

Provides a way of incorporating substantive changes into a piece of writing in addition to mechanical ones

Leads to smoothly flowing, logically-connected prose

Helps us make our writing more clear and more interesting

Helps us think about what the reader needs to know

Helps us vary our vocabulary and be more precise

Helps us make connections between ideas for our reader (transitions)

Helps us signal what is coming to the reader (transitions)

Helps us use TWR strategies in our independent writing (Unelaborated Paragraphs)

Helps us to eventually revise our independent writing (Unelaborated Paragraphs)

Develop organizational skills

Helps in categorizing info.

Reveals gaps in knowledge or comprehension

Guides students to a logical sequence for expository, narrative & argumentative text structures

Enables students to avoid repetition & irrelevant info.

Promotes cogent introductions & conclusions

Helps students take notes efficiently

Develops the ability to transition between ideas & paragraphs

Helps us plan before writing a composition

Helps us organize, sequence, and categorize information

Helps us avoid repetition and stay on topic

Can give us practice with different text structures

Develop organizational skills

Helps in categorizing info.

Reveals gaps in knowledge or comprehension

Guides students to a logical sequence for expository, narrative & argumentative text structures

Enables students to avoid repetition & irrelevant info.

Promotes cogent introductions & conclusions

Helps students take notes efficiently

Develops the ability to transition between ideas & paragraphs

Gives us a formula for writing introductions and conclusions