Links to Forceful Writing, Part One: Sentence Power Reading Level 9 and above; Grades 9-12; Adult Education Through a sequential sentence-combining approach, students learn to recognize and apply visual rules for coordinating connectives (coordinate conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs) and subordinating connectives (subordinate conjunctions and relative pronouns) in combining ideas logically and forcefully. After mastering a series of skill builders for each type of connective, students write their own sentence responses to questions based upon short stories contained in the textbook. Final skill-builders develop an understanding of emphasis incoordinating and subordinating ideas as students begin to write paragraphs. A pre-test and post-test are provided in the student text. An Instructor's Guide, provided free with each class set of text-books, contains instructor lesson plans correlated with a student assignment schedule in the text, evaluating exercises to be duplicated and distributed after each reading and writing performance, and keys to all skill-builders and evaluating exercises. An instructor's key is also provided for the pre-test and post-test. Anne DeCroes Obenchain, author of Links to Forceful Writing, drew upon more than 30 years of teaching experience in developing an interactive reading, grammar, and composition program which develops skills sequentially through worksheets and independent writing exercises. The effectiveness of Mrs. Obenchain's teaching approach has been confirmed by the loyalty of schools, both public and prochial, which have offered the program for more than 25 years. Jeanne Webb, Mrs. Obenchain's daughter and an English teacher with 25 years of experience, is currencly marketing the program and providing personal guidance for teachers new to the Links approach.
