Monica Gustafson Skills: Syntax, Grammar Age Level: Grades: thru K thru Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc LinguiSystems, Inc 3100 4th Avenue East Moline, IL 61244-9700 1-800 PRO IDEA 1-800-776-4332 FAX: E-mail: Web: TDD: 1-800-577-4555 service@linguisystems.com www.linguisystems.com 1-800-933-8331 (for those with hearing impairments) All of our products are copyrighted to protect the fine work of our authors You may only copy the worksheets as needed for your own use with students Any other reproduction or distribution of the pages in this book is prohibited, including copying the entire book to use as another primary source or “master” copy Printed in the U.S.A ISBN 0-7606-0501-7 About the Author Monica Gustafson has been a speech language pathologist in the St James-Assiniboia School Division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada since 1977 Monica is responsible for intervention to elementary-aged students and providing storytelling to children throughout the division She also writes a column for the Winnipeg Parent Newsmagazine to promote public awareness of speech and language An author of numerous speech and language programs, this is Monica’s first publication with LinguiSystems Monica and her husband Ron live in Winnipeg with their two children, Kari and Erik In her spare time Monica enjoys reading, traveling, and volunteering as a recruitment advisor for her chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta Dedication “Some people come into our lives and quickly go Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts that last a lifetime.” Anonymous This book is dedicated to my American “mom and dad,” Irene and Larry Rutherford, who welcomed me into their family during my college years and truly made me feel like their “Canadian daughter.” Cover Design by Chris Claus Page Layout by Jamie Bellagamba Illustrations by Margaret Warner Edited by Barb Truman No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Table of Contents Introduction Units Noun + Verb 7 “The boy is running.” Adjective + Noun + Verb 28 “The tall boy is jumping.” Noun + Verb + Direct Object 49 “The boy is reading a newspaper.” Noun + Passive Verb + Prepositional Phrase 70 “The dog is walked by the boy.” Noun + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object 91 “The boy is giving the dog a bone.” Compound Subject + Verb 102 “The boy and the girl are smiling.” Noun + Compound Verb 123 “The girl is singing and dancing.” Noun + Verb + Adverb 144 “The bus stopped slowly.” Noun + Verb + Direct Object + Indirect Object 165 “The man is selling a car to the woman.” Noun + Prepositional Phrase + Verb 176 “The boy in the bed is sick.” Noun + Verb + Adjective + Direct Object 197 “The boy is watching the buzzing bee.” Noun + Verb + Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase 208 “The boy is going to dive.” Noun + Adjective Clause + Verb/(Verb + Direct Object) 229 “The girl who skinned her knee is crying.” Noun + Verb + Adjective + Adverbial Clause 240 “The girl is crying because she lost her balloon.” Noun + Negative Verb Phrase 251 “The girl is not wearing a hat.” Word Cards 272 No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Introduction No-Glamour Sentence Structure is a flexible, picture-based program to help students develop more complicated sentence structures The worksheets are arranged in order of complexity from simple sentences to more complex structures and negative forms In no way is it suggested that this is a hierarchy of the way students develop these structures The order was established to help students increase the complexity of their structures from simple to more complex Each unit begins with a suggested list of sentences, followed by the individual worksheets On each worksheet page, the complexity of the sentence is developed by the illustrations, step-by-step, until the student has verbally described each element Once all the elements of the sentence have been identified, the student can then construct a complete sentence structure When working with a student, use a meta-cognitive modeling method to suggest appropriate structures as in the example below An example of modeling is provided on the first page of each unit Example (page 186): “The first picture shows us ‘The boy.’ Let’s write that under the picture In the next picture, what has changed? He is on a swing We might say ‘on the swing.’ Let’s write that down Now what is the boy doing in the next picture? ‘Smiling.’ Let’s add ‘is smiling’ under that picture Now let’s put it all together to tell everything that is happening in the last picture ‘The boy on the swing is smiling.’ “ For most of the stimulus pages, the suggested text is written in the present tense, but you can change the text to meet the goals of individual students Example (page 8): The boy is running The boy runs The boy ran The boy will run The suggested text is also written with nouns You can change these nouns to target the use of pronouns as needed Examples: (page 38) The little girl is reading She is reading (page 62) The children are jumping rope They are jumping rope No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Introduction Although there are suggested adjectives and adverbs with some sentences, encourage students to choose their own descriptors and/or add other adjectives or adverbs that might not even be illustrated Example (page 14): The girl is skiing The little girl with the hat and scarf is skiing downhill Students with language disorders are typically not efficient auditory learners, so in working with this population, it is appropriate that we provide them with as many visual cues as possible This program was designed with these children in mind The program gives them a visual strategy to build sentence structures and to practice both formulating those structures and writing them coherently Some students may have difficulty remembering all the words in sentences For example, they may forget “little” words such as is, are, and who There are several ways you can help by providing more visual cueing You might draw an oval link between picture frames like the example on the right You can fill in these spaces before the student writes the sentence to remind him of the occurrence of the form, or have the student fill in the links as he writes the completed structure You can also give the student a piece of paper with the word printed on it so that he can manipulate the word, placing it in the appropriate spot on the page We’ve provided these words for your use on page 272 Other visual strategies are to highlight the word, write it in a different color, or draw a shape around the word You could choose different shapes for different words to help cue the student visually For example, you might draw a circle around every is, a square around every who, and a triangle around every the My students have demonstrated a better understanding of sentence structures using this program and have gone on to use them in less structured situations I wish you success in building your students’ use of appropriate sentence structures with the strategies suggested in No-Glamour Sentence Structure Monica No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Noun + Verb The boy is running The boy is swimming The boy is swinging The boy is reading The girl is skipping The girl is sewing The girl is skiing The girl is singing The girl is smiling 10 The baby is crawling 11 The children are coloring 12 The children are playing 13 The children are skating 14 The children are painting 15 The cat is scratching 16 The dog is digging Modeling Example: The first picture shows “The boy.” Let’s write that under the picture In the next picture, what has changed? The boy is running We might say “is running.” Let’s write “is running” under that picture Now let’s put the words all together to tell everything that is happening in the last picture “The boy is running.” 17 The bird is singing 18 The owl is flying 19 The parrot is talking 20 The snowman is melting No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Noun + Verb No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Noun + Verb No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 10 Noun + Verb No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 258 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 259 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 260 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 261 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 10 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 262 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 11 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 263 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 12 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 264 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 13 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 265 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 14 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 266 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 15 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 267 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 16 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 268 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 17 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 269 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 18 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 270 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 19 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc 271 Noun + Negative Verb Phrase No-Glamour Sentence Structure 20 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc Word Cards Copy this page on sturdy paper and then cut the words apart Use them with students who need extra visual cueing the a an is are was were her his by to for in on with at going to because not who that 21-04-98765432 No-Glamour Sentence Structure 272 Copyright © 2003 LinguiSystems, Inc