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| Zarnowski, Myra | 1 |
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Peer reviewedWeaver, Constance – Language Arts, 1982
Finds that the proportion of sentence fragments remained fairly consistent across grade levels, with older students making more errors with more complex syntactic structures as they began to elaborate on ideas and use more subordinate elements. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Punctuation
Peer reviewedZarnowski, Myra – Language Arts, 1981
Examines structural ties that children use to join their sentences into a coherent paragraph or composition. (HTH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, Sentence Structure
