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This episode of 10 Minute Grammar, I am revisiting prepositions in my How I Teach Series. I know you will find it helpful while teaching prepositions to your studens!
In this episode, I delve into the concept of a lengthy, thorough, and useful prepositions list for students. Prepositions lists usually consist of a jingle, rhyme, or chant that involves memorizing 20-30 prepositions. When students are taught prepositions lists via this method, they seldom actually know what prepositions are, why they should learn them, what they will do with them once they are learned, and how to write with them.
Enter teaching prepositions by their purpose and within categories! Students can learn 100, 120, 150, or more prepositions rather quickly with this approach.
Here is the run-down on the method of preposition teaching that you will learn in today’s broadcast (and via any of my preposition products https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Language-Arts-Lady-With-Donna-Reish/Search:prepositions):
- Prepositions show position (first thing I teach students)
- There are over 200 total prepositions (including those made of other words and those that are also other parts of speech, like up and before, )
- We learn prepositions because they are the first words in the most common phrase found in sentences: the prepositional phrase.
- When teaching prepositions, teach them through the purpose—using check sentences: The plane flew _____ the clouds, etc.
- These check sentences are the beginning of teaching prepositional phrases (as opposed to just learning a list of prepositions then later learning what they do)
- Once students learn a couple dozen prepositions through a check sentence, apply different categories of prepositions to those check sentences:
- The plane flew ____ the clouds with prepositions that begin with A
- The plane flew ____ the clouds with prepositions that begin with other vowels
- The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that begin with B
- The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that are made of up compound words
- The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that are multi-word
- The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that are opposites
- The plane flew ______ the clouds with prepositions that are synonyms
- After students have a few dozen or more spatial prepositions memorized, move into time prepositions: The pilot laughed ______ the meal (during, after, before, in the middle of, etc.)
It’s all here in this week’s HIT!!! And….you get the full table of contents showing the order I teach, some worksheet pages showing how I lay out the lessons, a freebie at my store with all prepositions listed and some category cards for students to have at their fingertips, and more!
My sixty students (online and live) learn 100 prepositions using this method—and yours can too!
Of course, just like every lesson in my one-month downloadable books and my one-semester Meaningful Composition books, this one also has the invaluable sample lessons and lists.
And for your convenience, How I Teach…. is available as a podcast (follow along in your TN sheets for that week) and a YouTube video (with Power Point containing the same as the TN)!
Note: This lesson came from Christmas Preposition Pack, a 100-page downloadable book filled with the types of lessons described in this broadcast—and seventeen assignments for your students!
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Welcome to back to 10 Minute Grammar...
This will be a little bit longer than my usual 10 minute episode, but the information is valuable to teaching elementary students prepositions.
In this episode, I am (once again!) excited to teach you how I teach! I’m especially excited because this episode involves teaching elementary students. Yay for the littles!
I love teaching how I teach elementary students because I really want to spread the message of hands-on learning, incrementally, slow introduction to difficult concepts, and application of each thing these littles learn. I love to do this for my young students.
I dig in right off the bat with some criteria that I have for teaching prepositions to these students:
• Fun
• Easy to succeed
• Repetitive
• Self practice
• Tricks…always tricks!
• Less about purpose than with olders (but still with purpose)
Always Teach Purpose Behind Everything You Teach—With Olders, the purposes for prepositions are many and easily understood when they have a good grasp of sentence structure:
• Subject is almost never in a prepositional phrase
o The girls, along with their brother, are coming to class.
o In between lunch and dinner at the school yard, we play for hours.
• Prepositional phrase openers
o During the last lengthy blackout, we used up all the candles.
• Using objective pronouns well o She gave the book to Jon and I. No! She gave the book to me. She gave the book to Jon and me.
o We had no idea it would get around to Cami, Kara, and I. No! We had no idea it would get around to me….so use me as object!
• Give more details
o Focus on this with elementary students
o Sentence building
Especially with Elementary and Middle Schoolers: Teach with images, mnemonics, rhymes, interactives, and check sentences
• Bugs on a Log
• Preposition Packets (Plane, Castle, Reindeer)
• Check sentence
o The plane flew _____ the clouds.
o The boy played _______ class. (time)
• Repetition
o Weekly Think Fast Quizzes Teaching Specific to Elementary Students
• Introduce as a part of sentences that give more information
• Focus on object too
• Interactives at first
• Verbal activities
• Sentence building It’s all here!
AND, I give you some pages from my most elementary preposition product:
Bugs on a Log. (Don’t worry…I explain how to make your own interactive/manipulative too!)
Note: This lesson came from Bugs on a Log, a downloadable book in my Teachers Pay Teachers store! Find everything you need here!
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Next level parts of speech—pronouns! (See the “intro” to pronouns episode in Episode #7: https://languageartsladyblog.com/10-minute-grammar-episode-7-pronouns-parts-of-speech-series/ )
Today’s episode about pronouns covers the following:
The sneaky cat easily climbs. HE uses HIS claws.
- So far: Articles/Noun Markers + Noun + Adjectives + Verbs + Adverbs
- Pronouns added this week: HE and HIS
- Pro=for; pronouns are FOR nouns. They take the place of them.
- Personal pronouns (also called definite since they refer to a definite person)
- He, she, we, they, I, it, you
- Him, her, us, them, me
5.Possessive pronouns (possess/own; most troublesome; possessive pronouns never use apostrophe)
- Ours, mine
- Your, their
- His, her
- Its
6. Possessive adjectives (could come directly before a noun)
- Our, my, your
- Its, their
- His, her
7. Reflective pronouns (reflect back to someone(s) previously mentioned in the sentence)
- Myself, ourselves
- Yourself, yourselves
- Himself, herself
- Itself, themselves
8. Indefinite pronouns (not a definite person or thing; also called nouns and adjectives in some handbooks)
- Any, anybody, anyone
- Each, both
- Most, much
- None, no one, nobody
- Some, someone, somebody, something
- Either, other
- Much, several, many, all
- Every, everyone, everybody
9. Demonstrative pronouns (also called other types and even other parts is speech depending on how they’re acting in a sentence)
- This, that
- These, those
10. Relative pronouns (also called other types and even other parts is speech depending on how they’re acting in a sentence—especially Subordinators that mark the beginning of a subordinate/dependent clause)
- That, which
- Who, whom, whose
- Where, when
11. Interrogative pronouns (also called other types and even other parts is speech depending on how they’re acting in a sentence—especially Subordinators that mark the beginning of a subordinate/dependent clause)
- Who
- What, whatever
- Why
- Where, when
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Next level parts of speech—adverbs !
(See the “intro” to adverbs episode here!) https://languageartsladyblog.com/7105-2/
Today’s episode about adverbs covers the following:
The sneaky cat EASILY climbs.
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So far: Articles/Noun Markers + Noun + Adjectives + Verbs + Adverbs
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When my students have two difficult or confusing/similar concepts, I tell them they only need a trick for one!
—AdVERB
—Adjectives
AVA
—Adjectives
—Verbs
—Adverbs
Adverbs tell:
—HOW: carefully ran
—WHEN: later called
—WHERE: drove downtown
—TO WHAT EXTENT: extremely helpful
Not all adverbs are ly words
—especially those dealing with time (never, always, seldom, later)
—-especially negative words (not, never, seldom, etc)
—especially ones that are also prepositions (up, down, over, under, etc)
General tips
—importance of recognizing all verbs and telling the difference between action/BHL
—knowing that to plus action verb is an infinitive (a verb)
—importance of knowing the things adverbs tell (since they’re mostly action-related and different than what adjectives tell (what kind, etc)
Adverbs Vs prepositions
—up the mountain (prep)
—hang up the phone (up is adverb)
Two kinds of adverb openers
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One word adverb opener (most ly ones use a comma: Unfortunately, he didn’t answer. )
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Adverbial phrase or clause (have to listen carefully for where the phrase or clause ends and the “real sentence” begins: Carefully carrying the cake, he knew she would love it!)
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Next level parts of speech—adjectives ! (See the “intro” to adjectives episode here!
Today’s episode about adjectives covers the following:
--Adjectives are third out of ten on my list (following) because they often describe nouns
--Often confused with adverbs—use trick “adverb has the word verb in it”
--Tell
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Which one (other)
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How many (five, many)
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What kind (happy, blue)
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Whose (your, my)
--Adjectives can end in ly—
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Adjective + ly= adverb
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Noun + ly = adjective
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Ly adjective examples/ brotherly, bubbly, daily, earthly, lovely, gentlemanly, timely, weekly, smelly, pearly, oily, mannerly
--Punctuating double and triple adjectives
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Use commas (or the word and) if both or all three adjectives are descriptive (not clarifying)
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Use “trade places trick” to see if commas are needed
Yes—kind, wonderful person. -wonderful, kind person
No—your lovely mom
Can’t say lovely your mom
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Next level parts of speech—nouns! (See the “intro” to nouns episode here!)
Today’s episode about nouns covers the following:
- Person, place, thing, idea
- Two kinds
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- Common (any)
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- Proper (formal—we capitalize the formal names)
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- Possessive—to possess means to own
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- Pronouns—never ‘ for personal possessives
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- Nouns—always use ‘ for possessive nouns
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- Showing possession to nouns
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- ____belongs to _____
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- Write the owner first (don’t even think about possession when you write the owner)
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- Say, “The bowl belongs to the dog. Write the word dog. Hmmmm…dog doesn’t end in S, so I need apostrophe-s (dog’s). “ OR
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- Say, “The handle belongs to the glass. Write the word glass. Hmmmm…glass DOES end in S, so I need apostrophe-s (glass’)
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- Nouns are not second grade skills!
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- Talking heads
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- Give a talk
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- He will talk at noon.
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Time for another round of Ten Parts of Speech—but this time, I am doing “next level.” These episodes will be more teaching tips and more application to writing. Yay us!
Today’s episode over articles/noun markers covers the following:
- Teaching them in a simple rhyme
- The Vs thee
- An Vs a (an honor; a unicorn)
- Definite (the) Vs indefinite (a, an)
- The importance of teaching that articles tell you a noun is coming —and how to avoid confusion between a noun (the run) and a verb (had run)
- Teaching elementary students to recognize them in sentences as a sign that a noun is coming
- Teaching middle school students to recognize them in sentences as a sign that a noun is coming with adjectives between the article and noun
- Teaching high school students to recognize them in sentences as a sign that a noun is coming with adjectives, prepositional phrases, and possessives between the article and noun
They might be three little words—but they are important in writing!
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Welcome back to 10 Minute Grammar! I am starting a new twelve-part series on the parts of speech (each part one episode)—-but NEXT LEVEL! If you have followed 10 Minute Grammar from the beginning, you might remember that I started the podcast out with the 10 Parts of Speech in order. Very basic. But great tools and tricks for memorizing them and teaching them. Now we are going to delve into them again—but this time, are taking it up a notch: * Why do some people say thee and some say the? * How can I help my students tell when a word is being used as a noun Vs a verb (racing in tomorrow’s run Vs going to run) and a noun Vs an adjective (she is a doll Vs she has a doll face)? * Why do some adjectives end in ly? * How can I teach punctuation of double adjectives and double adverbs? * How can I solve the its Vs it’s problem once and for all for my kids? * My kids know fifty prepositions, now what do I do with that knowledge?
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Welcome back to 10 Minute Grammar! I am starting a new twelve-part series on the parts od speech (each part one episode)—-but NEXT LEVEL!
If you have followed 10 Minute Grammar from the beginning, you might remember that I started the podcast out with the 10 Parts of Speech in order. Very basic. But great tools and tricks for memorizing them and teaching them.
Now we are going to delve into them again—but this time, are taking it up a notch:
- Why do some people say thee and some say the?
- How can I help my students tell when a word is being used as a noun Vs a verb (racing in tomorrow’s run Vs going to run) and a noun Vs an adjective (she is a doll Vs she has a doll face)?
- Why do some adjectives end in ly?
- How can I teach punctuation of double adjectives and double adverbs?
- How can I solve the its Vs it’s problem once and for all for my kids?
- My kids know fifty prepositions, now what do I do with that knowledge?
And so much more!
It is going to be a blast!
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Welcome to the third episode of “My 3 Big Writing Tools and Tricks,” broadcast series.
My Free How-To Book
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[ ] Each step of the Checklist Challenge is separate page, taking you through the steps slowly
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[ ] Samples throughout —including a color-coded sample to see the “colorful version”!
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[ ] One paragraph all the way through before student does own paragraph
Tips for Using a Writing Checklist
- Be sure grammar skills are taught along with it
- No vagueness—coding, check boxes, etc
- Samples of each task
- Call them what they are for older students (specific opener types, adjectives Vs describers etc.)
- Do it with the student for first few papers
- Start out slowly (a few tasks at a time)
- Help student create final with changes in it.
You can do these with or without my free lesson or purchased lessons!
Note: Summary of the three foundational writing techniques—how they are laid out, how to get a freebie of each type, and how to create them yourself:
(1) Writing Boxes—Episode 24–(See images here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpTVpggIsnF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)
(2) How to Create and Write From a Sentence-by-Sentence (S-by-S) Outline—The “How to” lessons for these are in my “Tools and Tricks” books and each first semester book of “Meaningful Composition.” (As well as in March’s freebie!) Episode two of this series will teach you how to teach this!
(3) How to Complete the Checklist Challenge—today’s episode! (See video teaching of this here! How I Teach 9)
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Welcome to another three-part series on “10 Minute Grammar”!
This series is called “My 3 Big Writing Tools and Tricks,” and it will cover my three foundational writing techniques—how they are laid out, how to get a freebie of each type, and how to create them yourself:
(1) Writing Boxes—Episode 24–my signature sentence-dissecting and re-writing protocol made up of boxes in which students make a sentence their own (and eventually a paragraph their own). Extremely templated and easy to follow. (See images here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpTVpggIsnF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)
(2) How to Create and Write From a Sentence-by-Sentence (S-by-S) Outline—a third or more of the writing projects in all of my 100+ books contain given material/source for students to write from. The S-by-S outline approach teaches students how to write from sources in their own words. The “How to” lessons for these are in my “Tools and Tricks” books and each first semester book of “Meaningful Composition.” (As well as in March’s freebie!) Episode two of this series will teach you how to teach this!
(3) How to Complete the Checklist Challenge—the third foundational method in my books is that of the Checklist Challenge (CC). The “How to CC” lessons are in the same books as the “how to S-by-S” and will be the topic of the final episode in this series. Ninety-plus-percent of my projects have the CC—a checklist of editing/improvement tasks for students to use to improve their papers. I’ll teach you all about it—and get you a freebie!
So…10 MG 25 —-How to Create and Write From a Sentence-by-Sentence (S-by-S) Outline
My Free How-To Book
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[ ] Each step separate page, taking you through the steps slowly
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[ ] Passage/source appropriate reading AND writing level
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[ ] Samples throughout
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[ ] One paragraph all the way through before student does own paragraph
Benefits of Given Source to Outline From
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[ ] Can be sure it is their level
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[ ] Contained—when students begin writing from source they get can be overwhelming and too long
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[ ] Can choose content of their interest
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[ ] Checks and balances to be sure outlining with as few words as possible and symbols
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[ ] Checks and balances to be sure writing essay or report is in students’ own words
You can do these with or without my free lesson or purchased lessons!
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Welcome to another three-part series on “10 Minute Grammar”!
This series is called “My 3 Big Writing Tools and Tricks,” and it will cover my three foundational writing techniques—how they are laid out, how to get a freebie of each type, and how to create them yourself:
(1) Writing Boxes—my signature sentence-dissecting and re-writing protocol made up of boxes in which students make a sentence their own (and eventually a paragraph their own). Extremely templated and easy to follow. (See images here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpTVpggIsnF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)
(2) How to Create and Write From a Sentence-by-Sentence (S-by-S) Outline—a third or more of the writing projects in all of my 100+ books contain given material/source for students to write from. The S-by-S outline approach teaches students how to write from sources in their own words. The “How to” lessons for these are in my “Tools and Tricks” books and each first semester book of “Meaningful Composition.” (As well as in March’s freebie!) Episode two of this series will teach you how to teach this!
(3) How to Complete the Checklist Challenge—the third foundational method in my books is that of the Checklist Challenge (CC). The “How to CC” lessons are in the same books as the “how to S-by-S” and will be the topic of the final episode in this series. Ninety-plus-percent of my projects have the CC—a checklist of editing/improvement tasks for students to use to improve their papers. I’ll teach you all about it—and get you a freebie!
So…10 MG 23–how to use writing boxes:
Beginning Writing Boxes
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Two or three paragraph familiar story (sooo many available—Christmas, Harriet Tubman, Frosty, Beauty & Beast, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Book, Toys, Fairy Tales, Peter Pan, and more!)
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Each page has one sentence and boxes with tasks for student to complete to learn synonyms, sentence writing, etc. (see images)
Advanced Writing Boxes
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Start out the same as beginning ones
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Second half of each page of boxes teaches how to choose describes and make sentences more interesting.
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Both bring student’s new sentences together to create their own paragraph! Or paragraphs! So effective. Fun. Engaging. Interesting. You can do these with or without my free lesson or purchased lessons! Wanna see a video of my teaching this to teachers? It’s available here. How I Teach…Beginning Sentence and Paragraph Writing With Writing Boxes…(Episode #3) | See: https://languageartsladyblog.com/how-i-teach-episode-3/
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I love to teach my students how to write about people. In my newest set of “Write for a Month” books, “Black Americans’ Contributions,” I had the opportunity to use many of my frameworks for the many lessons in which students write about people.
In part three of three about teaching kids to write about people, I move into more advanced techniques and teach how to differentiate learning even more among multi-level writers.
- Why starting with three people/three paragraphs is such a great idea even up to high school if needed.
- How to teach expansion from one paragraph into multiple paragraph using that first paragraph’s content
- How differentiation can be easily achieved through varying expectations based on individual skill levels: number of and types of quotes expected; number of sources required; certain emphases of a person’s life; and much more.
- How to move from more “middle school-one or two sources” biography writing to the true test of research writing—merging multiple sources.
- Much more!
Check out my newest set of “Write for a Month” books called “Black Americans’ Contributions.” Five levels. One month long. Downloadable. Available at my store, link below.
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I love to teach my students how to write about people. In my newest set of “Write for a Month” books, “Black Americans’ Contributions,” I had the opportunity to use many of my frameworks for the many lessons in which students write about people.
In part two of three about teaching kids to write about people, I move into more frameworks, outlining types, and pre-writing techniques for fifth through eighth graders:
- Writing from a source that is given to students with definite/accurate paragraph breaks and appropriate readability/write-ability levels
- Writing from a source with a single episode/story of that person’s life (can be longer since it is story-based)
- Giving a source of many paragraphs with a Q and A structure for kids to outline from (their answers become their outline)
- Outline from sources—three similar people or three achievements (or quotes or books)—so simple to put together for one essay!
- Going from single source for research to multi-source merging
- And more!
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One of my favorite topics to help students write about is people. Writing about people is a great starting point for early writers to use sources, excellent way to give passages of material for kids to write from, and can even challenge upper level high schoolers, depending on the expectations and skills included. I love teaching writing about people for several reasons:◦ It is one of the easiest research-based topic. There’s chronology, abounding information, and simplified ways. ◦ It is often of high interest to even young students. ◦ There are many ways to break down information, organize facts, and lay out content. ◦ It is an excellent topic for expansion. I love teaching 2nd-5th graders people writing with these approaches:◦ Writing Boxes (signature layout for sentence and paragraph writing in many of my “Write-for-a-Month” and “Meaningful Composition” programs)◦ Paragraph House Outline and Writing◦ Five W’s charts, boxes, or lists ◦ Q and A outlines ◦ Sentence-by-Sentence outline over a given passage, especially story-based passages about people)Check out my newest set of “Write for a Month” books called “Black Americans’ Contributions.” Five levels. One month long. Downloadable.
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Today I’m taking a little detour from grammar and language arts to share three ideas (based on three products—one is free for the first two weeks of February!). Stay with me—you don’t need these $2 or $3 downloads to do these ideas.
Three Family Valentine’s Day Ideas
- Keep Close Cards (free at LAL blog the first two weeks of February)
◦ Cards that say Let’s Keep Close and have space under to write an invitation to spend time together.
◦ Use as a monthly invite for one-on-one time with kids.
◦ Fill three in for future activities for Valentine’s gift, Easter basket, or Christmas stocking
- 52 Ways to Say Triff cards
◦ Colorful, unisex, multi-age, cards with borders and various affirmations and compliments on them
◦ Some are specific to qualities (honesty, friendliness, diligence, kindness, initiative, etc) and some are more generic (you’re triff, so grateful for you, can’t believe you’re mine, etc)
◦ Room under each message to write personal note or message
◦ Use weekly! Also for under pillow notes, lunch box notes, back pack notes, mirror notes, and more!)
◦ Pass out at dinner table and read aloud what the person is getting acknowledged for
◦ Blank, bordered cards for you to create your own
- Kids’ Faves documents
◦ Ask for kids’ favorites in 35 categories
◦ Use for getting gifts, surprises, rewards, treats, etc.
◦ Fill in with each child
◦ Use at Valentine’s Day or Christmas as a game to learn more about each other as a group
◦ Use for dinner conversations
Make Valentine’s Day a fun family affair with these three ideas/products!
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Welcome to Part II of II of Subordinators! (Part I is Episode 16–find all the details at LALBlog or listen at iTunes.) In this episode, I review my first two tricks for teaching students lists of subordinators: (1) First seven subordinators learned in rhyme: Since, when, because, thoughAs, if, that, although! (2) Subordinate-Check Sentence— 75% of the dozens of subordinators fit into this check sentence (and, it also shows that subordinators are subordinate to the rest of the sentence---like submarines go down!):_______ the submarine went down, we could still/not see it. After that review, I teach about the power of using terminology and tricks that have something to do with what that part of speech is or does. In the case of subordinate clauses, I like to use the term subordinate clauses over dependent clauses since the subordinator is the first word in a subordinate clause…. And subordinate means less. A subordinate clause is less than a real sentence and cannot be used unless it has a complete sentence added to it: Sub clause, complete sentence. Lastly, I explain four important reasons to have students memorize/recognize Subordinators (and eventually recognize subordinate clauses quickly and easily): * Subordinate clauses are bot sentences —recognizing sentences and non-sentences is one of the crucial early writing skills. * Punctuating subordinate clause openers and putting complete sentences with openers properly is essential. * Subordinate clauses have subjects and verbs and need to have these match in tense and number—just like a sentence does. * It will be important later to learn the details of advanced punctuation with subordinate clauses in various positions in a sentence.
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This episode includes tips and tricks for helping kids ages three to twelve create/write Christmas thank-you cards—using my inexpensive downloadable sets or creating them easily yourself with today’s tips.
Pre writer
- Three years to second grade
- Colored or child to color (simple pictures!)
- Write over dotted lines or large spaced lines for child to write
- Message they can cut and paste
- Two sentences is great! Or poetry
Beginning Writer
- Early elementary
- Colored or child color
- Copy and paste message (have them write greeting and closing)
- Or copy from a message written out for them
- Be sure lines are wide for writing
Advanced Writer
- Middle school
- Colored or child color or paint or water color
- Give them rhymed and unrhymed messages if they need ideas for what to write
- May also use quote or other short message inside
☑️Check out my almost-done for you Christmas thank-you cards for all three levels at the LAL store!
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In today's episode I teach one of my favorite beginning story writing techniques---giving students two paragraphs from a familiar story that they get to finish. (In this case, these came from Jump Start I (semester long book {https://languageartsladystore.com/product/jump-start-i/}) and Write On, Mowgli (one month writing book {https://writeforamonth.com/write-on-writing-topic-based-books/}).)
My students love this project! They can pick any two-paragraph-scene starter from several that I give them. Then they use pre-writing boxes to lay out what they want to happen in the scene/how they want to "finish the scene."
Even though the story is familiar and each scene ends in a certain way in the original book or movie, the students get to end the scene in any way they want to.
So much fun! So much excitement! So much joy for this teacher!
There are many benefits to this approach:
1) Short amount of writing--two paragraphs given for them, and they add two paragraphs to finish that scene. (You can have older students do more scenes or more paragraphs for each scene as desired.)
2) Usually the story is familiar to them.
3) The setting, characters, obstacles, etc., are all given for them already in the first two paragraphs we give them.
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When considering “main parts of speech,” there are a lot of lists floating around. The first eleven episodes of this broadcast are made up of 10 First Parts of Speech in Order.
But why are some included and some not? (See 10 MG #1 for more details on that!)
I am an advocate of teaching subordinators (also called by other names—find out why this is the best name in today’s episode!) early and often.
1) They make up sentences just like other parts of speech do (though not needed to make a sentence a real sentence).
2) They give a sentence more information.
3) Most importantly, they require special punctuation!! (As I like to tell my students, “When you start a sentence with a subordinate clause, put the comma in where you hear the pause!”
In this part one of two episodes, I bring you the first two ways I teach subordinators to upper elementary students (or older students who haven’t learned them yet!):
(1) First seven subordinators learned in rhyme:
Since, when, because, though
As, if, that, although!
(2) Subordinate-Check Sentence—75% of the dozens of subordinators fit into this check sentence (and, it also shows that subordinators are subordinate to the rest of the sentence---like submarines go down!):
_______ the submarine went down, we could still/not see it.
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Poetry writing is often avoided by teachers and disliked by students. I’m a firm believer that it doesn’t have to be this way! As a matter of fact, I believe we can change any outlook on writing if we teach students all of the skills needed for each type of writing! On today’s episode, I start by reviewing the first three steps from last week’s episode. 1. Plan for poetry teaching to be a process—not a one and done event. 2. Read aloud from poetry during reading, content areas, unit studies, etc. 3. Use fun, whimsical, silly, and enjoyable poetry books for read aloud. 4. Use familiar yet simple verses for them to highlight and code the rhyme scheme and syllabication with you. (Give them copies of the ones you will teach rhyme scheme from.) 5. Teach the two parts of rhyme scheme using highlighters to code the rhyming words at the end of the lines.
In today’s episode, I cover the next six steps I follow in teaching poetry writing to middle schoolers: * Have students fill in rhyming words boxes extensively. * Use couplets with A-A rhyme scheme and short lines at first. * Have students finish simple couplets and A-A-B-B poems.
-easy rhymes that are familiar (“Humpty Dumpty” and “Rain, Rain, Go Away,” etc) -simple lines that you make up for them to finish * Then have them move into original A-A poetry writing. * Move into A-B-A-B poems that you finish together. * Then move to original A-B-A-B poems that they write alone or with you as a group.
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Teaching poetry writing is one of the (many) great loves of my life! Upper elementary students can enjoy poetry writing if it is taught to them systematically. On today’s episode, I start with the first three steps I use for teaching poetry to fourth graders and up: 1. Plan for poetry teaching to be a process—not a one and done event. 2. I like to use two weeks of writing time each semester for poetry writing in order to introduce it in a fun way and teach all the skills they will need in order to succeed at writing poetry.
1. Read aloud from poetry during reading, content areas, unit studies, etc. 2. Use fun, whimsical, silly, and enjoyable poetry books for read aloud. 3. Use familiar yet simple verses for them to highlight and code the rhyme scheme and syllabication with you. (Give them copies of the ones you will teach rhyme scheme from.)
1. Teach the two parts of rhyme scheme using highlighters to code the rhyming words at the end of the lines. 2. Highlight rhyming words. 3. Teach them to label these with their letters (AA, etc). 4. Teach them to count and write syllables after each line.
I go over this using “Humpty Dumpty” as an example, so it is easy to follow my methodology. Join me next week for the remaining six steps!
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Welcome to another exciting episode of Writing Tips for Every Grade.
Today’s topic is still the littles—the kindergarten “writers.” Here are the high points of today’s episode:
- Teach “writing” informally through reading aloud, listening to audios together, and building the child’s background of experience.
- Beware of too much “student writing” before reading fluency is reached.
- Don’t use precious reading lesson time for writing unless child learns to read through writing (rare)
- Write whole paragraphs for the child
- Use blank books—stickers, pictures, coloring books, etc., for student to dictate paragraphs to you
- Use the highlight and write over it method
- Use the dictated words that you write for the student for reading practice (language experience process)
Kindergarteners have a lot to say! When they realize that writing is the spoken word written down—and that they can write every time they dictate to you—watch out! Young writers emerge!
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Welcome to a new series on the 10 Minute Grammar podcast/videocast: Writing Tips for Every Grade!
I start out with the littles—oh how I love the littles! Yep, Writing Tips for Preschool!
Here are some of the topics I cover:
- Writing vs. penning--Penning is art. Writing is thinking. Preschoolers can think even when they can’t write!
- Read to preschoolers often—the more littles are read to, the more they can bring to their own reading and writing process!
- Experiences to bring to the reading and writing process—the same is true with experiences!
- Let them see us writing—modeling goes a long way!
- Write words for them all the time—let them know you are always available to “pen” for them!
- Writing is the spoken word written down---littles need to know that if they can talk, they can eventually write! And they can write immediately if you pen for them!
- Let them dictate to you—words, sentences, phrases, paragraphs---write it all for them!
- Write with highlighter for them to write over –they can practice the penning process by you writing what they say in highlighter and letting them write over the highlighted words.
Give them every opportunity to “write” (dictate to you)—kids’ menus, coloring pages, empty notebooks, napkins, notes, greeting cards—you name it!
There are so many things we can do to prepare preschoolers to write in the future! They can already create. They can already develop a love for writing when their words are written down for them.
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Parts of Speech are for sentence building:
The (noun marker/article)
The CAT (noun)
The SNEAKY cat (adjective)
The sneaky cat CLIMBS. (Verb)
The sneaky cat EASILY climbs (adverb).
The sneaky cat easily climbs. HE uses HIS claws. (Pronoun)
The sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws ON the tree. (Preposition)
YES, the sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws on the tree. (Interjections)
Yes, the ONE sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws on the tree. (determiner)
1) Determiners determine clarify something about the next word or words
2) They are taught as a catch-all grouping in many programs and handbooks.
3) They include other categories/parts of speech:
a. Possessive pronouns: The boy rode HIS bike. b. Articles/noun markers: She ate AN apple. c. Number adjectives: They have TWO choices of cupcakes. d. Indefinite pronouns: I would like a FEW choices! e. Possessive common nouns: It is the BOY'S bike. f. Possessive proper nouns: It is JON'S bike.
Would it be better to not have one large group called determiners but instead teach each of those things as what part of speech they are?
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Parts of Speech are for sentence building:
The (noun marker/article)
The CAT (noun)
The SNEAKY cat (adjective)
The sneaky cat CLIMBS. (Verb)
The sneaky cat EASILY climbs (adverb).
The sneaky cat easily climbs. HE uses HIS claws. (Pronoun)
The sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws ON the tree. (Preposition)
YES, the sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws on the tree. (Interjections)
1) Coordinating conjunctions (cc)
2) Used to join coordinating pieces.
-two or more words
-two or more phrases
-two or more sentences
3) Teach through acronym:
FANBOYS
F or
A nd
N or
B ut
O r
Y et
S o
Goals for students to start recognizing them. Find them in grammar exercises. Punctuate them. And, most importantly, write with them to create compound sentences.
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Welcome to another episode of 10 Minute Grammar!
This is number 8 in our Parts of Speech series--the eighth part of speech that we teach/learn for sentence building!
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Noun marker: THE
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Noun: The CAT
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Adjective: The SNEAKY cat
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Verb: The sneaky cat CLIMBS.
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Adverb: The sneaky cat EASILY climbs.
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Pronoun: The sneaky cat easily climbs trees. HE uses HIS claws.
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Prepositions: The sneaky cat easily climbs trees. He uses his claws ON TREES.
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TODAY!!! Interjection: YES, the sneaky cat easily climbs trees. He uses his claws on trees.
RHYME:
My, well, oh
Wow, yes, no
Two ways to use them in sentences:
1) Interjected at the beginning of sentences:
a. Yes, the cat climbs.
b. No, he doesn't bite.
2) As stand alone sentences with an exclamation point following:
a. Yes!
b. Oh!
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Parts of Speech are for sentence building:
- The (noun marker/article)
- The CAT (noun)
- The SNEAKY cat (adjective)
- The sneaky cat CLIMBS. (Verb)
- The sneaky cat EASILY climbs (adverb).
- The sneaky cat easily climbs. HE uses HIS claws. (Pronoun)
- The sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws ON the tree. (Proposition)
1) Prepositions show position!
2) Over 200 prepositions.
3) Modes of learning: song/chant (about 30 prepositions) and check sentences.
4) Preposition Check Sentences for spatial/position: The ____ flew/ran ____ the ___.
- Bugs on log
- Spidey, Birdy, Polly with tube
- Bird or plane in clouds
- Angel or reindeer in clouds
- Beauty or Luminaire in castle
5) Preposition Check Sentence for time: ____ laughed ____ ____.
Pilot, Birdy laughed…before take off.
Santa, the Angel, Beauty, Santa laughed…before dinner.
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Pronouns are number six in our line-up of parts of speech order. PRO means for.
Pronouns are FOR nouns. They replace nouns so that we don’t have to use the same words over and over again.
Two favorite ways to show importance of pronouns:
- Read paragraph with all nouns---no pronouns.
- Read paragraph with all pronouns—no nouns.
Teach kinds of pronouns as we use them---too many types to teach all at once.
Remember grammar is for writing and speaking. They should be writing with pronouns (and the other parts of speech right away).
Some programs/handbooks/experts will call some pronouns something else (like both might be considered an adjective or who might be considered a subordinator).
Personal possessive pronouns NEVER have apostrophes: his, hers, theirs, ours.
Indefinite pronouns do have apostrophes to show possession: somebody’s, other’s, anyone’s.
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1) Noun markers/articles: THE
2) Noun: The CAT
3) Adjective: The SNEAKY cat
4) Verb: The sneaky cat CLIMBS.
5) Adverb: The sneaky cat EASILY climbs.
Three criteria for order of parts of speech:
(1) Teach to build sentences.
(2) Teach close to something else they are used with (introduce, modify, describe)
(3) Teach away from something that it is confused with (adjectives and adverbs apart)
Adverbs modify/describe a lot of things:
A djectives
V erbs
A dverbs
Adverbs answer four primary questions:
HOW: carefully ran
WHEN: later called
WHERE: drove downtown
To WHAT EXTENT: extremely helpful
When starting out with adverbs, focus on:
1) Teaching them close to verbs (but not close to adjectives)
2) Looking for/introducing them as LY words the majority of the time
3) Focusing on the question HOW (this will usually be with a verb—the easiest of the three parts of speech they describe and the most common of the three.
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Sentence building so far: The sneaky cat climbs. Noun marker/Article: The
Noun: The Cat
Adjective: The sneaky cat
Verb: The sneaky cat climbs.
With our fourth installment in the Order of Parts of Speech series, we are adding verbs--and ready to start creating sentences!
"Phonics is for reading and spelling. Grammar is for writing and speaking" (Donna Reish).
The goal of grammar is to use it to write well!
First three verbs I start with: 1) Action 2) Being, helping, and linking (check out my beginning Think Fast Grammar Quiz for the Be, a Helper, Link verb song!) 3) Infinitives (a "special verb" that starts with TO and has a verb following it: to run, to jump, to be, to appear)
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Sentence building so far:
The sneaky cat
Noun marker/Article: The
Noun: The CAT
Adjective: The SNEAKY cat
- Describe nouns and sometimes pronouns
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*Tell:
- Which one
- How many
- What color
- What kind
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Two categories make it easier to punctuate multiple adjectives later:
- 1) Descriptive adjectives
- 2) Clarifying adjectives
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Order of parts of speech teaching. Sounds simple enough, right? I mean everybody knows what nouns and verbs are. Just sprinkle the others in here and there….not so fast. Check out my reasons in 10MG #1!!!
Today’s episode is all about nouns! Why they are second in order. How to link them to articles/noun markers. How they precede adjectives. Why they aren’t just second grade skills! The confusion with common and proper nouns. And much more! All in ten minutes!
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Article/Noun Marker: The
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Noun: The cat
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Adjective: The sneaky cat
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Verb: The sneaky cat climbs.
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Adverb: The sneaky cat easily climbs.
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Pronoun: The sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws.
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Preposition: The sneaky cat easily climbs. He uses his claws on the trees.
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Interjection: Yes, the sneaky cat easily climbs. he uses his claws on the tree.
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Coordinating Conjunction: Yes, the sneaky cat easily climbs, and he uses his claws on the tree.
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Determiner: Yes, the one sneaky cat easily climbs, and he uses his claws on the tree.
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Figuring out an effective, logical order for parts of speech is no small feat. I am going to continue helping you with that, along with some introductory teaching tips for each of the ten parts in this Order of Parts of Speech teaching series! Today I introduce the first in my order: articles/noun markers. I tell the theory behind putting them first and putting them right before nouns (hint: they "mark" nouns!). Then I give you my tried and true article/noun marker rhyme, along with advice as to why the typical "a, an, the" order and wording doesn't work most of the time.
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Welcome to the first episode of 10 Minute Grammar (10 MG)! In this episode, I introduce the Parts of Speech Order series that I will be doing over the ten parts of speech for the next several weeks. Today's episode covers Parts of Speech Order "Theory." My three criteria for the order are explained: (1) Teach them in an order that aids in sentence building; (2) Put the parts of speech that go with each other close to each other in the learning process; (3) Try not to teach something that is used to modify, describe, or replace a part of speech BEFORE that part of speech is taught. Find the order on my free Parts of Speech Order Poster here. (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/10-Parts-of-Speech-Order-Poster-Free-8158423)
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