Nonfiction for High School: A Sentence-Composing Approach

by Donald Killgallon, Jenny Killgallon

Overview

Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach helps students all across America develop into more proficient and sophisticated writers. Now in this powerful worktext, the Killgallons use their highly effective method to help students become better readers and writers of nonfiction.

Nonfiction for High School: A Sentence Composing Approach offers varied practice in building better sentences and paragraphs by modeling the sentence structures of well-known authors, including Diane Ackerman, Maya Angelou, Bruce Catton, Annie Dillard, Tracy Kidder, Erik Larson, Anna Quindlen, Jeannette Walls, Tom Wolfe, Richard Wright, and many others.

Using the activities in the worktext, students—

• learn the meanings of words in the context of nonfiction selections, promoting deep reading skills
• learn and apply valuable tools for writing—the identifier, the describer and the elaborator—for variety in sentence structure
• imitate the sentence and paragraph structure of mentor authors from a wide variety of short nonfiction pieces.

The Killgallons provide the scaffolding students need to build strong sentences and paragraphs, as well as to interpret challenging nonfiction texts.  With recognizable nonfiction authors as their mentors, students learn skills and build confidence as their reading and writing become more meaningful and masterful.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780325053783
Publisher:	Heinemann
Publication date:	03/13/2015
Edition description:	Student
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Don Killgallon is the originator of the sentence-composing approach and author of numerous sentence-composing worktexts. He is the author or coauthor of Paragraphs for Middle School (2013), Paragraphs for High School (2012), Grammar for College Writing (2010), Story Grammar for Elementary School (2008), Grammar for High School (2007), Grammar for Middle School (2006), Sentence Composing for Elementary School (2000), Sentence Composing for High School (1998), Sentence Composing for College (1998), Sentence Composing for Middle School (1997), and Daily Sentence Composing (Great Source). He currently co-teaches with Jenny Killgallon in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Jenny Killgallon is coauthor of Paragraphs for Middle School (2013), Paragraphs for High School (2012), Grammar for College Writing (2010), Story Grammar for Elementary School (2008), Grammar for High School (2007), Grammar for Middle School (2006), Sentence Composing for Elementary School (2000), and Daily Sentence Composing (Great Source). She currently co-teaches with Don Killgallon in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction: Words, Sentences, Paragraphs

Quickshots: A Word About Words 1

Your Turn: Quicks hot Definitions 13

Nonfiction: A Reality Smorgasbord 17

Your Turn: Informational Article 24

A Sentence-Composing Approach: A Writer's Toolbox

Sentence-Composing Overview 25

Identifier Tool 31

Your Turn: Critical Review 36

Describer Tool 39

Your Turn: Pro/Con Paper 44

Elaborator Tool 46

Your Turn: Research Snapshot 51

Tool Variety 54

Your Turn: Informational Paragraph 70

Marking Meaning 74

Your Turn: Portrait of a Place 97

A Nonfiction Sampler: Miniature Examples

Quotations: Bite-Size Essays 102

Your Turn: Autobiographical Event 124

Mirror Images: Mentor Paragraphs 129

Your Turn: Technical Report 149

Famous People: Brief Bios 153

Your Turn: Biographical Sketch 182

Famous Words: Parallel Structure 186

Your Turn: Parallel Metaphor 196

Opinionators: You Say What? 199

Your Turn: Position Paper 214

Reporters: Getting and Telling It Right 218

Your Turn: Free Choice Report 239

Nonfiction: The Final Word 242