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Thinking About Language
Helping Students Say What They Mean and Mean What They Say
A Landmark School Teaching Resource
Preface
Acknowledgments
About Landmark Outreach
About the Author
Landmark Teaching Principles
Introduction
Auditory Retention and Recall
Chapter One: Phonology
- Introduction
- Phonological Awareness
- Auditory Discrimination of Phonemes
- Articulation of Phonemes
- Articulation of Multisyllabic Words
- Responding to Unintelligible Speech
in the Classroom
- Responding to Processing/Production
Errors in the Classroom
- Bibliography of Instructional Materials
Chapter Two: Morphology
- Introduction
- Regular Noun Plurals
- Noun-Verb Agreement
- Definite and Indefinite Articles
- Noun Possessives
- Irregular Noun Plurals
- Present Progressive Tense of Verbs
- Third-Person Singular, Present-Tense
Verbs
- Past Tense of Verbs
- Irregular Past Tense of Verbs
- The Irregular Present-Tense Linking
Verb "Be"
- Present-Tense Linking Verbs
- The Irregular Present-Tense Verbs "Have"
and "Do"
- Modals
- Auxiliary (Helping) Verbs and Modals
- Contractions
- Future Tense of Verbs
- The Six Verb Tenses
- Comparative and Superlative Forms of
Adjectives and Adverbs (Regular and Irregular)
- Suffixes
- Prefixes
- Bibliography of Instructional Materials
Chapter Three: Syntax
- Introduction
- Word Order in Simple Sentence
- Simple Sentences with a Noun Phrase
and Action Verb
- Simple Sentences with Where Phrases
- Simple Sentences with When Phrases
- Simple Sentences with Where and When
Phrases
- Simple Sentences with Adjectives
- Simple Sentences with Adverbs
- Simple Sentences with Negatives
- Passive Voice
- Yes-No Interrogatives
- Indirect Requests
- Wh- Interrogatives
- Basic Sentence Types, Classified by
Purpose
- Conjunction Deletions
- Phrases with Verbals: Participles, Gerunds,
and Infinitives
- Compound Sentences with Coordinating
Conjunctions
- Compund Sentences with Conjuncts (Connectives)
- Sentences with Correlative Conjunctions
- Complex Sentences with Subordinate Adverbial
Clauses
- Sentences with Right-Branched Adjective
Clauses: Subordinate Clauses as Object-Related Adjectives
- Sentences with Embedded Adjective Clauses:
Subordinate Clauses as Subject-Related Adjectives
- Complex Sentences with Noun Clauses:
Relative Clauses as Subjects, Objects, Predicate Nominatives,
or Objects of Prepositions
- Statements with Quotations
- Sentences with Structural Ambiguities
- Bibliography of Instructional Materials
Chapter Four: Semantics
- Introduction
- Vocabulary: Action Verbs
- General Vocabulary
- Vocabulary: Adjectives That Describe
Quality
- Vocabulary: Adjectives That Tell Which
or How Many
- Vocabulary:Adverbs
- Word Retrieval
- Locative, Directional, Spatial, and
Temporal Prepositions
- Instrumental and Idiomatic Prepositions
- Personal, Reflexive, and Intensive Pronouns
- Demonstrative, Indefinite, and Indefinite
Negative Pronouns
- Categories
- Antonyms
- Synonyms
- Homonyms: Multiple-Meaning Words
- Analogies
- Temporal-Sequential Relationships
- Directional Words
- Figurative Language
- Making Inferences
- Literature
- Bibliography of Instructional Materials
Chapter Five: Pragmatics
- Introduction
- Discourse: Presenting a Topic
- Discourse: Summarizing an Event or a
Selection from Literature
- Discourse: Sharing Descriptive Information
- Discourse: Expressing Comparisons and
Contrasts
- Discourse: Explaining a Process
- Discourse: Describing Cause and Effect
- Discourse: Expressing Opinions
- Discourse: Eliciting Comments from Students
Who Give No Response
- Discourse: Encouraging Students to Expand
on Minimal or Incomplete Responses
- Dicourse: Accommodating Students Who
Exhibit Slow Processing or Delay in Formulating a Response
- Social Communication: Ritualizing
- Social Communication: Requesting Information
or Assistance
- Social Communication: Conversation and
Discussion
- Social Communication: Classroom Discussion
- Resolving a Conflict
- Social Communication: Resolving Conflicts
in a Residential Setting or during Free Time
- Paralinguistic Communication: Articulatory
and Prosodic Features
- Paralinguistic Communication: Volume
and Pitch
- Paralinguistic Communication: Register
- Paralinguistic Communication: Nonverbal
Skills
- Paralinguistic Communication: Disfluency
/ Dysfluency
- Bibliography of Instructional Materials
References
Glossary
Bibliography
Appendix
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