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How do I help students build syntactic awareness?

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How do I help students build syntactic awareness?

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Research shows that learning sentence combining — where students become more adept at manipulating and playing with words in sentences — is far more effective in developing syntactic awareness than is practicing traditional grammar, says Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy. (3:06)

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