Framing Your Thoughts Project Read Pat Rakovic MA CCC/SLP,CAGS Writing Framing Your Thoughts Project Read Pat Rakovic MA CCC/SLP,CAGS

Whole Brain Learning I always begin my sessions with a routine. I teach the students the rules of learning and always use an attention set. Whole Brain teaching: Chris Biffle

Teach Okay Education research tells us that the most effective learning takes place when a student engages the brain's primary cortices- visual, auditory, language production and motor- at the same time. Further, as students enjoy the experience, their limbic systems become involved.

“Tell me and I will forget, teach me and I will remember, involve me and I will learn.” The limbic system is the portion of the brain that controls emotional engagement. As you involve all four learning modes at once, and attach a positive emotional experience, students form deep and lasting anchors for the information they are acquiring.

Divide your class into teams of two Divide your class into teams of two. One student is a One, the other member of the team is a Two. You want students to do a large amount of the teaching. Present a small amount of information, complete with gestures. When you finish, look at the class and clap two times, say “Teach!” Your students clap twice and respond “OK!” 

Teach your students to copy your gestures (kinesthetic) and mimic the emotion in your tone of voice (limbic).   As your students teach each other, move around the room listening to what they are saying.  This is an excellent opportunity to monitor student comprehension.   Then, call them back to attention with the Class-Yes!  If you are not convinced your students have understood your lesson, repeat it.  Otherwise, go on to the next small group of points.

You can either let your students find their own natural way of determining who speaks or listens, or provide more structure using "Switch!"

Project Read Project Read©/Language Circle© is a research based mainstream language arts program for students who need a systematic learning experience with direct teaching of concepts and skills through multisensory techniques All Verb parts are yellow, All nouns are blue ( Similar to what a great deal of us do now but a clear delineation that can be done with highlighters, colored pencils, index cards or sticky notes) Give two examples a noun is the name of a person place or thing, Verb expanders that tell when ( When may you talk in class you may talk BEFORE class or AFTER class but never DURING class BECAUSE I am the teacher and you will do AS I say). Visual symbols, verbs, nouns, verbal expanders, noun descriptors. Then can trace the symbols as they say i

Project Read Differentiation of instruction Color coded Auditory:Saying for each part of speech Visual symbol Tactile symbol Kinesthetic All Verb parts are yellow, All nouns are blue ( Similar to what a great deal of us do now but a clear delineation that can be done with highlighters, colored pencils, index cards or sticky notes) Give two examples a noun is the name of a person place or thing, Verb expanders that tell when ( When may you talk in class you may talk BEFORE class or AFTER class but never DURING class BECAUSE I am the teacher and you will do AS I say). Visual symbols, verbs, nouns, verbal expanders, noun descriptors. Then can trace the symbols as they say i

What do you do when you have a great photo

^ Sentence Frame . ? ! STOP A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a stop sign.

Literature that teaches Punctuation

Activity Draw a sentence frame on your paper ( board). Say it as you draw it.

Subject A noun is a word that names the person, place, thing, idea and animal Dog Cars John

Discovering the Subjects The use of visuals to teach nouns TASK Use your camera to find subjects in the pictures. Think about what story you might be able to tell with that particular subject.

Subject line or blue card/sticky note

Game Say the noun poem Lets think of all the nouns that are People Places Things Animals You need to listen to your classmates you can’t repeat what they say

Books about Nouns

Predicate The action of the subject is called the predicate. The action can be physical (doing) or mental (thinking or being). crash runs paints

Predicate

Verbs Verbs can be mental/physical it is what you do. TEACH Activity: Just call out verbs that could be used for these pictures.

Books about Verbs

Bare Bone Sentences

Barebones Sentence A sentence only needs a subject word plus a predicate word to equal a complete thought.

Sentence Formula

Barebones Sentence ^ . Cars crash.

^ . ^ . John paints. The dog runs. ^ . Cars crash.

Activity Use student’s names to make some barebone sentences Mary yodels Extra points for novel verbs

Predicate Expander How Where When Why A predicate expander expands the predicate by answering the questions where, how, when, and why.

Predicate Expanders Each Triangle or Predicate Expander Type would be taught separately. The categories answer the questions Where How When Why

Predicate Expanders Predicate Expanders are taught after the subject and verb because they are what adds substance to the sentence. Note that the predicate was marked by four mountains, each of these mountains represent a category of expanders

Predicate Expander-Where Cars crash on the busy freeway.

Predicate Expander-How Cars crash loudly.

Predicate Expander-When Cars crash during rush hour.

Predicate Expander-Why Cars crash because of the rain.

Activity Write a sentence using a subject descriptor. Diagram the sentence. Did you use any triangles?

Subject Describers describe or tell more about the subject. Looks like/ Physical Behavior/ Personality Numbers Ownership Set Apart

Subject Descriptors Looks/Physical Characteristics Shape, size, color, texture, taste, smell Behavior/personality Number Ownership Set Apart Sets the subject apart The cup, on the desk, fell down.

Barebones Sentence ^ . The dog runs.

Subject Describer-Appearance runs. dog The big

Subject Describer-Personality dog runs. The playful

Subject Describer-Number Three dogs run.

Subject Describer-Ownership Bob’s dog runs.

Subject Describer-Set Apart The dog with the red collar runs.

Joins words, phrases, and Connector Conjunction lll Joins words, phrases, and sentences.

Barebones Sentence ^ . Cars crash.

Connector The red and lll green cars crash.

Sentence Mobility Write a sentence having at least one predicate expander. Diagram it. Take the sentence and move the predicate expander to another place in the sentence.

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Paragraph Writing This writing program goes from the one word level to the paragraph and research level There are visual formats that assist the student in gathering the correct information and then putting it into the correct format There is a step by step procedure for writing the paragraph as well as editing it.

6 steps of writing a paragraph Subject Key Idea Brain storm Organize Write Edit

Activity Write a short story 5 sentences Begin with bare bones to sketch out story Add as many triangles in your sentence as you can. Proof sentences by diagramming.

Diagramming Sentences First put the sentence frame around each sentence. Alternate colors for each sentence. Then put the symbols around the words. Do you see a pattern ? If you see a pattern try to change it.

How to Make A Peanut Butter Shipwreck If you want something really yummy like candy, but your mom says it has to be healthy, you’ll probably be bummed out. I can however easily teach you how to make a nutritious, but extremely delicious snack called a celery boat. First, wash your hands. Next, gather all of the luscious ingredients, brisk, crisp celery, an immense amount of creamy peanut butter for color and taste, and some savory raisins. Now you can congregate this tasty treat. Find a nice, clear area like a countertop or cutting board and make sure that it is clean. Next, take a washed piece of celery and then with a knife or a fork gently spread on the appetizing peanut butter. After that, lightly sprinkle on yummy raisins to look like fish on the sunken ship For extra fun, stick a toothpick with a piece of cheese on top of it into the celery stalk for a mast. Now you are ready to gobble up this delicious peanut butter shipwreck.

Thunderstorm by Jordan, Dan, and Alex      The thunderstorm is coming. Lightening crashes in the garden. Noisily the clouds cry during the thunderstorm. The sky gets gray. The loud thunder booms. The wind is blowing against the window. The big storm clouds gather in the sky. The lightening flashes across the sky like a lighthouse. The trees are bending because the wind is blowing them. The rain floods the streets. Loudly the thunder crashes. Since they are scared, the animals run from the storm. Now you know you know that a thunderstorm is scary .