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Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms Presented by Amy Benjamin www.amybenjamin.com. Part Five: On Your Feet!. “ I’ve never known a person who wasn’t interested in language.” -Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct. Grammar on Your Feet: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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“ I’ve never known a person who wasn’t interested in language.”
-Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
Presented by Amy Benjamin
www.amybenjamin.com
Part Five:
On Your Feet!
Grammar on Your Feet:
The “Word Cards” may be used to establish the same concepts as the “Reading Rods.”
Other uses:
1. Act out the “reversibility” of adjectives: If two adjectives can exchange places, then you DO need a comma between them; if not, then you DON’T.
(AWESOME, FUZZY)
2. Act out the movability of adverbs (YESTERDAY, TODAY) and prepositional phrases (AT NIGHT, IN THE POND)
3.Act out the partnership between the subject and the verb.
4. Act out what happens when two clauses (subject-verb partnerships) combineto make a compound sentence. (THE HANDSOME PRINCE APPEARED,(AND, BUT, SO) THE PRINCESS RAN AWAY.
Grammar on Your Feet:
The “Word Cards” may be used to establish the same concepts as the “Reading Rods.”
Other uses:
7. Act out the concept that singular countable nouns (PANDA) requirea noun marker (THE). Non-countable nouns (MUD) and plurals (PENGUINS) donot require noun markers.
8. Use YESTERDAY and TODAY to locate the verb: the word that changes whenyou change the “time zone” is the verb.
9. Use SOMETHING to illustrate that a pronoun replaces the noun + its modifiers, not just the noun.
Use Post-It Notes for necessary additions and deletions (editing).
5. Act out the fact that modifiers, though important, do not form the core of the sentence (ask modifiers to sit down).
6. Act out the difference between an intransitive verb (verb that does not need a direct object: WADDLE) and a transitive verb (verb that needs or wants a direct object: WANT, LIKE).
Index of Word Cards for Grammar on your Feet
Independent Clauses (PINK): A handsome prince appeared The princess ran away
Verbs (YELLOW): waddle, fly (intransitive) like, want (transitive)
Nouns (GREEN): panda, monkey (countable) penguins, birds (countable, plural) mud (non-countable)
Adjectives (RED): awesome, fuzzy
Adverbs (ORANGE): yesterday, todayPrepositional phrases (ORANGE): in the pond, at night
Conjunctions: (BLUE), but, soConjunctive adverbs (PURPLE): moreover, furthermore; however; therefore
Noun marker: (RED) the
Punctuation: (WHITE) period, comma, semicolon
S (for plural nouns and singular third person verb form
a handsome prince appeared
This is an independent clause: It can stand alone as a complete sentence.
,and
,but
,so
These are the most common coordinating conjunctions: Along with a comma, they can join two independent clauses to create a compound sentences. Most professional writers begin sentences with coordinating conjunctionsFOR EMPHASIS. Many teachers do not want you to begin sentences with coordinating conjunctions. Follow your teacher’s expectations.
the
This is the most common noun marker:When you see this word, expect a noun structure (single noun, noun phrase, or noun clause.
When S is added to a word, it could mean: Plural form of a noun Singular form of a verb, to match the third person singular subject With apostrophe, possessive form of a noun
s
today
This is an adverb: It answers one of these questions:WHEN? WHERE? WHY? HOW? TO WHAT EXTENT?HOW OFTEN?
This word will helpyou locate the verb.
yesterday
This is an adverb: It answers one of these questions:WHEN? WHERE? WHY? HOW? TO WHAT EXTENT?HOW OFTEN?
This word will helpyou locate the verb.
This is how you can tell where a nominal beings and ends. (By a nominal, we mean a noun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause.
Something
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