1. Writing- Framing Your Thoughts
OVERVIEW-Project Read
by Pat Rakovic MA CCC/SLP,CAGS

2. 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

3. 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

4. What do you do when you have a great photo

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

7. Literature that teaches Punctuation

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

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

10. 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.

11. Subject line or blue card/sticky note

12. 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

13. Books about Nouns

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

15. Predicate

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

18. Books about Verbs

19. Bare Bone Sentences

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

21. Sentence Formula

22. Barebones Sentence ^ .
Cars crash.

23. ^ . ^ .
John paints.
The dog runs. ^ .
Cars crash.

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

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

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

27. 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

29. Predicate Expander-Where
Cars
crash
on the busy freeway.

30. Predicate Expander-How
Cars
crash
loudly.

31. Predicate Expander-When
Cars
crash
during rush hour.

32. Predicate Expander-Why
Cars
crash
because of the rain.

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

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

35. 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.

36. Barebones Sentence ^ .
The dog runs.

37. Subject Describer-Appearance
runs.
dog
The big

38. Subject Describer-Personality
dog
runs.
The playful

39. Subject Describer-Number
Three
dogs
run.

40. Subject Describer-Ownership
Bob’s
dog
runs.

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

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

43. Barebones Sentence ^ .
Cars crash.

44. Connector
The red
and
lll
green cars
crash.

46. 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.

47. 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.