Story Grammar for Elementary School: A Sentence-Composing Approach provides understanding of the structure of good sentences, with activities to learn, practice, and use
grammatical tools associated with authors.
The purpose of Story Grammar is to give students a clear sense of good sentences to
help them know how to build better sentences like those of authors. The worktext is
a virtual apprenticeship in sentence composing mentored by authors.
The title of this worktext refers to the sources of the hundreds of model sentences:
stories, long and short, many of which are instantly recognizable and familiar to
students and teachers. It is a narrative treasury in miniature, a rich curriculum for
grammar, teaching the story in the sentence (interesting content), and the sentence
in the story (grammatical structure).