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Berninger, Virginia W.; Nagy, William; Beers, Scott – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Children in grades one to four completed two sentence construction tasks: (a) Write one complete sentence about a topic prompt (sentence integrity, Study 1); and (b) Integrate two sentences into one complete sentence without changing meaning (sentence combining, Study 2). Most, but not all, children in first through fourth grade could write just…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Sentences, Writing (Composition), Spelling