Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching phrases, subject verb agreement, prepositions, and more!
Quick Review of Part I of This Two Part Series (#51):
- CAVES—Capital, All makes sense, Verb, End mark, Subject; how to teach students to
recognize a sentence with that acronym (see my CAVES posters and reference ring cards
here!) - How to help students memorize MANY subordinators
- The value of using check sentences and mnemonics and clues!
- Using weekly Think Fast Grammar Quizzes from 3rd grade on to memorize parts of
speech (Beginner and Advanced)
On to this week’s content:
- Differences between phrases and clauses
- Reasons for learning prepositions
- How to teach where a prepositional phrase begins and where it ends
- How to teach students more than one hundred prepositions (Hint: Use one
of these packets from my TPT store— Bugs on a Log, Beauty and Beast
Preposition Packet, or Preposition Packet) - Writing with prepositional phrases
- Isolating prepositional phrases to locate and match subject/verb
- Punctuating sentences with prepositional phrase openers
- Much more!
It’s all here in this week’s HIT––where each week, I bring you tips, tricks, and techniques for teaching writing, language arts, grammar, and more (to grades two through twelve) drawing upon my 100+ curriculum books totaling over 50,000 pages.
Note: This lesson came from The Write Right Quick Kit, an upper level, teacher, parent downloadable book!
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