prepositions and prepositional phrases, direct and indirect objects, verbals (gerunds, infinitives, participles, participial phrases), conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, and subordinating) & subject- verb agreement (8) Reference Sheets- use these to teach- or remind- your students about nouns & pronouns, verbs (we focus on action and linking verbs in this packet), modifiers (including articles, adjectives, adverbs, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns). Here’s what’s included in this 83 page program: Be sure to check out the preview for a closer look. I am so, so excited to (FINALLY!!!!) be able to share it with you- and your students. I hope that you absolutely love this product. After repeating, your student can then practice creating his or her own sentence to match that diagram. Your student is provided with a blank sentence diagram, and you will say a sentence that matches that diagram. I created worksheets that will allow you to try a new- and unique- way to target recalling sentences. We were already ”chunking” parts and pieces together in our diagrams. It hit me that sentence diagramming provides the perfect way to do this. I realized when I wanted to work on sentence recall tasks, I was asking my students to “chunk” information. I can’t say enough about sentence diagramming- SLPs love visuals, and this is the ultimate way to visualize grammar and sentence structure. I’ll walk your student- and you- through sentence diagramming step by step, so no worries if this is new to you.

It contains lessons that allow your student to 1) review parts of speech, 2) answer questions about sentences which contain those parts of speech (and likewise identify those parts of speech in the process), 3) practice writing targeted parts of speech or sentence parts in sentence fill-in tasks, and 4) diagram a specific sentence structure. This program doesn’t contain a few “parts of speech” grammar task cards. Along the way, I’ve been able to fill in the “holes” of missing knowledge that I have encountered in both my students- and myself.

Instead of teaching my students a few pieces of information here and there, I realized it was essential to start at the beginning and work our way up towards more complex structures. In the process, I gained a whole new understanding of grammar and sentence structure. This started me on a journey which took two long, exhausting months. Reading Comprehension Deficits in Adolescents: Addressing Underlying Language Abilities (Nippold, 2017) In case you’re wondering, the other amazing research article was this: I realized it was going to take more than targeting “prepositional phrases” or using a conjunction here and there- my students needed to study sentences using an organized, structured approach. It encouraged me to dig deeper and try a new approach. Additionally, sentences work together in passages in order to convey an overall meaning. The bottom line: every word, phrase, and clause in a sentence affects meaning. I continued reading more and more – and it made sense to me. One in particular, “The Case for the Sentence in Reading Comprehension” (Cheryl M. While researching the best ways to assist my students in this area, I came across a few research-based articles. Many of my students struggle with reading comprehension. This program strives to assist your student with understanding- and using- a variety of sentence structures. Grammar and sentence structure activities for speech therapy and special education- perfect for individual or small group centers- targets include creating sentences, sentence comprehension, and identifying sentence parts and parts of speech!

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