lyn stone and grammar

SCIENCE OF

WRITING: WORDS

AND GRAMMAR

WEBINAR HANDOUT

IN CONJUNCTION WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AUSTRALIA Please download and print this document if you would like to follow along with the webinar.

Lyn Stone

© Lyn Stone 2021 www.lifelongliteracy.com

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First, a quote from Emeritus Professor Richard Hudson, from the introduction to Language for Life:

“Grammar is probably the most important mental ability we have, and the one that distinguishes us most sharply from other

animals. But, like any other ability, it doesn't come to us fully developed by Mother Nature.

What grows naturally is just a small part of what adults need to function properly in the

modern world."

Write your conclusions after this presentation:

Is teaching grammar to kids important anyway?

Where are you supposed to start?

How far do you go?

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YOUR DRAGON ANALYSIS SENTENCE



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NOUNS AND VERBS

NOUN VERB

TYPE

Fish swim.

DO

Fish are aquatic. BE

Fish have scales. HAVE

YOUR TURN:

NOUN VERB

TYPE DO

BE

HAVE

POSSIBLE VERBS OF STATE OF BEING: is, feels, smells, sounds, tastes, looks, appears, seems

POSSIBLE HAVE VERBS: possess, own, retain, hold, exhibit, keep, lack (the opposite of have in this sense, but still not expressing action or state of being)



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BARE MINIMUM SENTENCE FRAME



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MODIFIERS

ADJECTIVES ADVERBS

MODIFY NOUNS MODIFY VERBS AND OTHER MODIFIERS

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE NOUN NOUN VERB ADVERB ADJECTIVE NOUN Fish are aquatic Fish swim gracefully.

Fish have hard scales. Fish have very hard scales. YOUR TURN:

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE NOUN VERB ADVERB ADJECTIVE

Possible subjects: Possible additional nouns ants lives bees thoughts elephants habits monkeys homes dogs fruit Possible verbs: are have fly eat climb work Possible adjectives: busy diurnal cooperative large sweet intelligent industrious Possible adverbs: mostly greedily steadily very purposefully



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CONNECTORS Prepositions DEFINITION: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Some possible prepositions:

above across against among at

before behind beneath beside between

beyond by from in

of off on

over past through under upon

with within without

Conjunctions DEFINITION: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Conjunctions can simply link items in a list, like and, or, not only... but also etc, but when used in larger constructions can radically alter the outcome of the utterance. Some possible conjunctions and but because so yet although if unless

both…and either…or neither…nor whether…or not only…but also



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PART 2: HOW MORPHOLOGY CAN TRANSFORM TEACHING

Examples

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

(FANBOYS)

although, because, if, for,

how, unless, until

both…and, either…or,

neither…nor, whether…or,

not only…but also



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THREE CONDITIONS FOR INTRODUCING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES

• When students can reliably form, transcribe and read the letters <e, r, n, u> (amongst others),

• When students can reliably count up to three syllables orally, and • When students have studied the word do and its family, you can introduce the

concept of affixes. For scope and sequence documents, please refer to the Language Arts and Language for Life training programs.



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THE BASIS OF WORD-FORMATION

DEFINITION EXAMPLES

BASE

ROOT

PREFIX

SUFFIX

A better question:

Instead of, “How do you segment this word into sounds?” Ask:



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WORD PARTS TABLE

SINGLE FREE BASE BASE + BASE BASE + AFFIX

DERIVATIONAL SUFFIXES

NOUN-FORMING ADJECTIVE-FORMING VERB-FORMING



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WHAT NEXT?

October 28th – Spelling for Life Edition 2 Book Launch Party and

scholarship announcements

November 5th – Spelling for Life live workshop in Cairns (via QASSP)

November 6th– Reading for Life live workshop in Cairns (via QASSP)

November 13th – Spelling for Life live workshop via Zoom

November 20th – Writing for Life live workshop via Zoom

November 27th – Language for Life live workshop via Zoom

December 1st – Language for Life Segments Series: Nouns

December 8th – Language for Life Segments Series: Pronouns

December 15th – Language for Life Segments Series: Verbs

December 8th – Language for Life Segments Series: Pronouns

January 5th – Language for Life Segments Series: Adjectives

January 12th – Language for Life Segments Series: Adverbs

January 19th – Language for Life Segments Series: Prepositions

January 5th – Language for Life Segments Series: Conjunctions

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