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How to Write Clear Sentences: A Self-Paced Text
Justification For Local Funding
Q: I am seeking local funding to purchase How To Write Clear Sentences: A Self-Paced Text. Our district requires that we write a justification. Can you help me?
A: YES!
The requirements for funding justifications vary by school district. However, the information below, organized by subject and presented in bullet format, should assist you. If you do not find the information you need below, please contact us via email and ask for what you need.
Description of the Book and Its Contents
- How To Write Clear Sentences: A Self-Paced Text has 172 pages and a 20-page complementary answer key. The text teaches clear, correct sentence structure.
- It comes with both a pretest and a posttest so that students can monitor their own progress.
- The book has nine units that teach the parts of speech; the parts of the sentence; recognition of common sentence errors; rules for subject-verb agreement; mastery of verbs; construction of clear sentences; and mastery of pronouns, punctuation, and capitalization.
- Because the book has an index, it can be used as a reference text once students have completed it.
Relevance of the Book To Standadized Testing
- The skills in the book correlate to those required for the writing portion of the SAT and the ACT.
- The skills in the book correlate to the writing portion of the new Stanford Nine.
- The skills in the book correlate to the writing portion of various state high-school tests required for graduation.
- The skills in the book correlate to the National Standards English for the Language Arts.
- Note: Some of the correlations appear on our website. If you do not find a correlation for your state, please contact us. If you provide her with the name of your state test and sample questions, she will complete a correlation at no charge.
Validation
- The Department of the Navy validated the text and determined that the average adult military student could complete the text in eight to ten hours and score at the 80 percent level or above on a closed-book-posttest.
- School districts have had similar results with high-school students.
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