Five Minute Focus: What is sentence combining?

Learn practical ways to use sentence combining as a writing strategy to help students create more complex, varied, and effective sentences. This Five-Minute Focus slide deck provides examples that support stronger writing fluency, clarity, and overall composition skills.

These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic and follows a practical, easy-to-use structure:

• What is it?
• Why is it important?
• Practical teaching tips for implementation
• Connected resources to deepen learning and support instruction

Complete with speaker notes to support presentation delivery, these short slide decks are an effective way to build educator knowledge, strengthen instructional capacity, and spark meaningful professional learning conversations.