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Sentence combining improves writing where grammar teaching fails — the same meta-analyses score them +0.50 and −0.32.
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Does sentence combining improve writing? · writing · ages 5–18
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- Manipulatives and concrete-representational-abstract (CRA) sequences
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- Reading-comprehension strategy instruction (reciprocal teaching, summarizing, questioning)
- Reading fluency — guided repeated oral reading, and whether repetition matters
- Reading Recovery and Tier-2 1:1 early-literacy tutoring
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