Reading Analysis Stage 3: Simple Sentences with Attributes
Materials:
Duplicate sets of prepared sentences, one of the pair serves as a control for reconstruction. Sentences should give the possibility of interpretation on the child’s part. (To act out)
Reading analysis box with symbols, which include loose black arrows with questions and loose black and red circles.
Two loose blue arrows with questions and two loose blue triangles
Scissors
A basket for cut up slips
Purposes:
To help the child become aware of the words and groups of words in a sentence.
Preparation for better understanding in reading and self-expression verbally and in creative writing.
Total reading, which includes comprehension of the meaning as well as the emotion and awareness of style.
Awareness of syntax (word order).
Practice in Reading.
Age: 5 ½ and up
Preparation: The child has worked with Reading Analysis Sentences with Extensions
Presentation:
Invite the child to carry the box to the table, guide takes the envelope and basket.
Remove and line up the items the child knows. (Do not remove the indirect object and circle as well as the orange arrows and circles).
Introduce new items: the blue arrows and have the child read them and line up. Introduce the blue triangles and line them up.
Select a sentence strip for the child to read and act out.
The child will place the arrows/circles that they already know.
Bring down a blue arrow and ask the child to read it. Place it under the subject pointing downward. Ask “Which, what kind of (object)” .
Child identifies the slip. Show them to place the blue triangle under that word at the bottom of the arrow.
Guide the child to read the slips.
Transpose the slips on the blue triangles and read.
Ask if it makes sense.
Child will reconstruct the sentence on the table and check with the control slip.
Clear away the slips in the basket and invite the child to continue.
Fade and observe.
Control of Error: Control slip helps in reconstructing the sentences
Following Exercises:
Sentences: The child may show interest in writing their own sentences using the arrows.
Pedagogical Notes:
The blue triangles remind the child of their previous experience with the adjective. In a sentence, it is called an attribute.