Wondering how to teach your students to write complete sentences? In this video, I share 5 tips for teaching your kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students how to write complete sentences! Just click play to watch.

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Decodable Sentence Scrambles: https://bit.ly/SJTsentencescrambles
Sentence Combining Unit: https://bit.ly/SJTcombiningsentences

Books Mentioned:
The Writing Revolution: https://amzn.to/3Zy7BaY
Teaching Beginning Writers: https://amzn.to/3ZEMgfU
Best Practices in Writing Instruction: https://amzn.to/4303Mhr

Videos Mentioned:
Inventive Spelling in K-2: https://youtu.be/2WywkH6DEp4
3 Activities to Promote Oral Language: https://youtu.be/MbpzkyxveUU

Sentence videos:
How to Write a Sentence: https://youtu.be/0ltCaD73txg
Expanding Sentences: https://youtu.be/RazGKrlqQyQ

Vocabulary videos:
How I Teach Vocabulary in K-2: https://youtu.be/i3OgosvU0pI
Vocabulary Ideas & Activities for K-2: https://youtu.be/wD_P146WR90
Explicitly Introducing New Vocab: https://youtu.be/ztW-vXuO6bo

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00:00 Research Books for Teaching Writing
03:06 1: Oral Language is Essential
05:30 2: Set Realistic Expectations
11:11 3: Model EVERYTHING!
14:15 4: Use Scaffolded Sentence Writing Activities
17:43 5: Teach Editing at the Sentence Level

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