Using Sentence Combining Instruction to Enhance the Writing Skills of Children With Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal
Saddler, B., Ellis-Robinson, T., et al. (2018).
Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 16(2), 191-202.
This systematic review investigates the effects of re-writing short, syntactically simple sentences into more complex sentences – varied in style, length, and syntactic structure – on writing in students with learning disabilities and struggling writers.
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Empirical studies
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Findings demonstrated sentence combining to be an effective method for improving sentence construction skills in students of variously ability level, including students with learning disabilities. These results were limited as generalization of learned skills to connected writing and the ecological validity were not explored.
