This teaching guide urges the use of sentence combining as a technique to improve both the reading and the writing of students. The guide offers practical activities in sentence combining in forms that will make classroom teaching more interesting for the instructor and elicit more productive work from the student. The guide is divided into the following six chapters: (1) "The Promise of Sentence Combining"; (2) "Using Sentence Combining in the Classroom"; (3) "Providing Signals: Cued Sentence-Combining Exercises"; (4) "Open Sentence-Combining Exercises: From Sentence to Paragraph to Discourse"; (5) "One Researcher's Sequence: Sentence-Combining Exercises for Elementary Students"; and (6) "A Brief Summary of Research." Contains 52 references and a 47-item annotated bibliography of related resources in ERIC. (NKA)