Even though he teaches history rather than English, Mr. Stahl wants to support his seventh-grade students in their syntactic development. Which one of the following strategies, although possibly beneficial in other respects, is least likely to promote his students' syntactic development?
◦ Teach students the differences between similar words (e.g., that vs. which, lie vs. lay) and when to use each one.
◦ Engage students in many formal writing activities, and give them regular feedback about punctuation and grammar.
◦ Teach students how to take notes more efficiently by capturing ideas in short phrases rather than complete sentences.
◦ Teach students a wide variety of sentence structures that they might use.