This is the third in our series of simple sentence writers, focusing on Subject-Verb-Adverb (SVA) and Subject-Verb-Object-Adverb (SVOA) constructions, e.g. “The boy is running quickly.” and ”The girl is making a cake in the kitchen.” (45 pages).

Many writing programs start at the discourse (or text type) level, with tasks like recounts, procedures, and stories. For many students, however, this is too advanced and sets them up for failure. Texts are made up of paragraphs, and paragraphs are made up of sentences. Let’s start with sentences and work our way up!

Some students, including students with language and other learning disorders, dyslexia, and people who are learning English as a second language, have difficulties writing simple sentences. In this series, we provide simple scaffolds to help people to understand, speak, and write in grammatically correct sentences.