Willie J. Elder
Day Two
: Objective Student should be able to join compound subjects.
Materials: blackboard, chalk, eraser, paper and pens
Procedure
: Students should be given a list of words that can be combined to make new words. The teacher should point out the fact that these words can stand alone and still be considered as words. Once students recognize these new words as compound words, the teacher constructs sentences which have the same verb phrases but different subjects. Students should also be aware of the ways of joining together subjects. (and) This joining word serves as the rule.
Example: John hit the ball. (and)
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Mary hit the ball. (+ rule)
Result: John and Mary hit the ball.
Rationale
: This operation should serve as a means of exposing students to the possibility of sentence manipulation. Students should be able to recognize verb phrases which describe the same actions yet contain different subjects.
Reinforcement
: Homework consisting of similar examples or/and worksheets which contain these type of combining operations. Students can role play a sentence where different students commit the same action to enable students to see that a more concise description of the action would include a joining word and one sentence.