ERIC Number: ED619676
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 21
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-
EISSN: N/A
Intensive Intervention Practice Guide: Explicit Instruction in Sentence-Combining for Struggling Writers
Chandler, Brennan W.; Bourget, Jessica L.; Reno, Emily A.
Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education
The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral difficulties. By the end of the first year of their program, scholars in each cohort work in cross-institutional collaborative groups to create an Intensive Intervention Practice Guide. In each guide, scholars identify an approach to intensive intervention for a select population of students with disabilities, describe the existing evidence base behind it, and discuss the next steps in research needed to improve the understanding of designing and delivering the intervention. The "Intensive Intervention Practice Guides" are created for practitioners as well as faculty engaged in instructing pre- and in-service teachers. This practice guide investigates current practices used to provide explicit instruction in sentence-combining for struggling writers. Sentence-combining is a practice for teaching students how to write clear, grammatically correct, and syntactically complex sentences. Students are taught to consolidate information from two or more "kernel" sentences (simple sentences with no modifiers that can be combined) into a single sentence using all the information provided, eliminating any redundancies without altering the meaning provided in the simple sentences.
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice, Transformational Generative Grammar, Sentence Structure, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Bilingual Students, Writing Difficulties
Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education. 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202. Tel: 202-245-7459; Web site: https://www.ed.gov/category/keyword/office-special-education-programs-osep
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) (ED/OSERS); National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII)
Grant or Contract Numbers: H325H190003