Sentence CPR

Practical and fun, this dynamic guide for both student writers and English teachers dispenses quirky remedies - with a generous dose of humour - for sentences suffering from ailments such as detail deficiency, passive voice fatigue, weak verbs, and word overdose. Providing teachers with tools to improve middle and high school student writing, the lessons show how to write interesting sentences through samples of stellar sentences, practice exercises, and skill-boosting activities.