I taught a lot of kids when I was a kid, so I know how the teachers used to do it. You know those reading books they have with the short stories and the questions at the end? Right now I'm using one of those on my son. I went through and underlined the answer sentences to the questions at the end. I read the story and say, listen for these three sentences... "Goldie lived in Josie's small apartment..". Josie got a goldfish... Goldie went to live on a farm. When you hear these sentences raise your hand and yell, "I hear it!".
Eventually he'll go and start writing the answers. Question #1-#4., pick an answer from the underlined sentences and copy the whole sentence. Mmm-hmmm. Then he'll have to start pre-reading the questions before reading the passage so he can underline his own relevant sentences, then copying both the question and the answer in the form of a complete sentence. And you just let the book and excercizes do their job. We're on a different time schedule and I don't remember if the school took one or two years to do this. It's not a tip or trick. It's work. At the same time you're doing Grammer and composition which is practice writing good sentences and composing good paragraphs which include a clear topic sentence and the rest of the paragraph stays on topic.
