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    This lesson plan provides guidance for teaching students about English syntax and sentence structure. It includes two sample sentences to use for examples - one about a tree frog crawling on a leaf, and one about chemical reactions involving potassium, sodium, and hydrogen. The plan outlines steps for dissecting the grammar of the sentences and having students reconstruct the sentences by moving around the parts of speech. It also provides examples of how to "shuffle" or modify the sample sentences to change aspects like tense, addition of adverbs or adjectives, negation, or making them interrogative. The overall goal is to help students learn how to create different types of sentences using the proper rules of English syntax.

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    This lesson plan provides guidance for teaching students about English syntax and sentence structure. It includes two sample sentences to use for examples - one about a tree frog crawling on a leaf, and one about chemical reactions involving potassium, sodium, and hydrogen. The plan outlines steps for dissecting the grammar of the sentences and having students reconstruct the sentences by moving around the parts of speech. It also provides examples of how to "shuffle" or modify the sample sentences to change aspects like tense, addition of adverbs or adjectives, negation, or making them interrogative. The overall goal is to help students learn how to create different types of sentences using the proper rules of English syntax.

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    This lesson plan provides guidance for teaching students about English syntax and sentence structure. It includes two sample sentences to use for examples - one about a tree frog crawling on a leaf, and one about chemical reactions involving potassium, sodium, and hydrogen. The plan outlines steps for dissecting the grammar of the sentences and having students reconstruct the sentences by moving around the parts of speech. It also provides examples of how to "shuffle" or modify the sample sentences to change aspects like tense, addition of adverbs or adjectives, negation, or making them interrogative. The overall goal is to help students learn how to create different types of sentences using the proper rules of English syntax.

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    Syntax Surgery Lesson Plan Example

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    This lesson plan provides guidance for teaching students about English syntax and sentence structure. It includes two sample sentences to use for examples - one about a tree frog crawling on a leaf, and one about chemical reactions involving potassium, sodium, and hydrogen. The plan outlines steps for dissecting the grammar of the sentences and having students reconstruct the sentences by moving around the parts of speech. It also provides examples of how to "shuffle" or modify the sample sentences to change aspects like tense, addition of adverbs or adjectives, negation, or making them interrogative. The overall goal is to help students learn how to create different types of sentences using the proper rules of English syntax.

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    The passages discuss lesson plans for teaching grammar and syntax through analyzing and rearranging sentences.

    The grammar dissection steps help students understand the parts of speech and grammatical structure of sentences.

    Some examples of sentence shuffles included changing verbs to past or future tense, making sentences negative or interrogative, and substituting synonyms.

    Syntax Surgery Lesson Plan- Collazo

    Original Sentence:
    Adj Adj
    Adv
    Adj

    Conj

    Adj

    Verb Tense: Simple Present


    N

    A bright and small tree frog crawls


    along the
    N

    Pp Adj N

    edge of a leaf.

    Other key grammatical features: use


    of adjectives, adverb after the verb

    Syntax Rule:
    Subject-Verb Agreement
    Language Objective: We can create a sentence in the simple present tense
    using the parts of speech and the rules of English Syntax.
    Grammar Dissection Steps:
    a) Display sentence out of order. Read words, explain unknown vocabulary
    b) Construct Grammar Wall. Explain/review the parts of speech
    c) Categorize words under parts of speech
    d) Think aloud to construct sentence with students.

    Guided reconstruction steps:


    1. Find the possible verbs. (crawls)
    2. Find the possible subjects. (tree frog, edge, leaf) Match tree frog to crawls
    3. Find possible adjectives. (bright, small, A, a, the) Match A to bright or to
    small
    4. Match other adjectives to nouns. (the edge, a leaf)
    5. Find possible prepositions. (of)
    6. Match prepositions to nouns/noun phrases. (edge of a leaf)

    Shuffles

    New Sentence

    (That address verb tense and grammatical


    features.)

    Shuffle 1:
    Negative

    Shuffle 2:
    Interrogative

    Shuffle 3:
    Change it to plural

    Shuffle 4:

    A bright and small tree frog does


    not crawl along the edge of a
    leaf.
    Does a bright and small tree frog
    crawl along the edge of a leaf?
    The bright and small tree frogs
    crawl along the edge of a leaf.

    Change it to present progressive

    A bright and small tree frog is


    crawling along the edge of a leaf.

    Shuffle 5:

    (Students choice of adjectives)

    Change two adjectives

    Poole
    Original Sentence:
    n
    n
    conj
    n
    v
    Potassium, sodium, and hydrogen are
    adv
    v
    prep
    n
    instantaneously reacting with
    substances.

    Verb Tense:
    Present Progressive
    Subject + am/is/are + verbing +
    finisher.
    Other key grammatical features:
    Adverbs

    Syntax Rule:
    6. adverb verb adverb

    Language Objective: We will create a sentence in the present progressive


    tense using the parts of speech and the rules of English Syntax.
    Opening:
    -Connect previous chemical reaction lessons.
    *Alkali metals (group 1 periodic table) are very reactive- one valence*
    -Students choose ONE chemical reaction video
    http://io9.com/5886602/ten-amazing-and-occasionally-explosive-chemical-reactions-caughton-video
    1. Killer bananas
    2. Death of a gummy bear
    3. For elephants with bad breath

    Grammar Dissection Steps:


    e) Display sentence out of order. Read words, explain unknown vocabulary
    f) Construct Grammar Wall. Explain/review the parts of speech
    g) Categorize words under parts of speech
    h) Think aloud to construct sentence with students.

    Guided reconstruction steps:


    7. Find the possible verbs.
    8. Find the possible subjects.
    9. Find possible adjectives.
    10. Match other adjectives to nouns.
    11. Find possible prepositions.
    12. Match prepositions to nouns/noun phrases.

    Shuffles
    (That address verb tense and grammatical
    features.)

    New Sentence

    Shuffle 1: Synonym for


    instantaneously
    Shuffle 2: Change position of
    adverb
    Shuffle 3: : Negative sentence

    Shuffle 4: Interrogative sentence

    Shuffle 5: Change adverb

    Potassium, sodium, and


    hydrogen are quickly reacting
    with substances.
    Potassium, sodium, and
    hydrogen are reacting
    instantaneously with substances.
    Potassium, sodium, and
    hydrogen are not
    instantaneously reacting with
    substances.
    Are potassium, sodium, and
    hydrogen instantaneously
    reacting with substances?
    Potassium, sodium, and
    hydrogen are frequently reacting
    with substances.

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