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This episode of 10 Minute Grammar, I am revisiting prepositions in my How I Teach Series.  I know you will find it helpful while teaching prepositions to your studens!
In this episode, I delve into the concept of a lengthy, thorough, and useful prepositions list for students. Prepositions lists usually consist of a jingle, rhyme, or chant that involves memorizing 20-30 prepositions. When students are taught prepositions lists via this method, they seldom actually know what prepositions are, why they should learn them, what they will do with them once they are learned, and how to write with them.
Enter teaching prepositions by their purpose and within categories! Students can learn 100, 120, 150, or more prepositions rather quickly with this approach.
Here is the run-down on the method of preposition teaching that you will learn in today’s broadcast (and via any of my preposition products https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Language-Arts-Lady-With-Donna-Reish/Search:prepositions):
Prepositions show position (first thing I teach students)
There are over 200 total prepositions (including those made of other words and those that are also other parts of speech, like up and before, )
We learn prepositions because they are the first words in the most common phrase found in sentences: the prepositional phrase.
When teaching prepositions, teach them through the purpose—using check sentences: The plane flew _____ the clouds, etc.
These check sentences are the beginning of teaching prepositional phrases (as opposed to just learning a list of prepositions then later learning what they do)
Once students learn a couple dozen prepositions through a check sentence, apply different categories of prepositions to those check sentences:
The plane flew ____ the clouds with prepositions that begin with A
The plane flew ____ the clouds with prepositions that begin with other vowels
The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that begin with B
The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that are made of up compound words
The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that are multi-word
The plane flew _____ the clouds with prepositions that are opposites
The plane flew ______ the clouds with prepositions that are synonyms

After students have a few dozen or more spatial prepositions memorized, move into time prepositions: The pilot laughed ______ the meal (during, after, before, in the middle of, etc.)
It’s all here in this week’s HIT!!! And….you get the full table of contents showing the order I teach, some worksheet pages showing how I lay out the lessons, a freebie at my store with all prepositions listed and some category cards for students to have at their fingertips, and more!
My sixty students (online and live) learn 100 prepositions using this method—and yours can too!
Of course, just like every lesson in my one-month downloadable books and my one-semester Meaningful Composition books, this one also has the invaluable sample lessons and lists.
And for your convenience, How I Teach…. is available as a podcast (follow along in your TN sheets for that week) and a YouTube video (with Power Point containing the same as the TN)! 
Note: This lesson came from Christmas Preposition Pack, a 100-page downloadable book filled with the types of lessons described in this broadcast—and seventeen assignments for your students!
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Welcome to back to 10 Minute Grammar...
This will be a little bit longer than my usual 10 minute episode, but the information is valuable to teaching elementary students prepositions.
In this episode, I am (once again!) excited to teach you how I teach! I’m especially excited because this episode involves teaching elementary students. Yay for the littles!
I love teaching how I teach elementary students because I really want to spread the message of hands-on learning, incrementally, slow introduction to difficult concepts, and application of each thing these littles learn. I love to do this for my young students.
I dig in right off the bat with some criteria that I have for teaching prepositions to these students:
• Fun
• Easy to succeed
• Repetitive
• Self practice
• Tricks…always tricks!
• Less about purpose than with olders (but still with purpose)
Always Teach Purpose Behind Everything You Teach—With Olders, the purposes for prepositions are many and easily understood when they have a good grasp of sentence structure:
• Subject is almost never in a prepositional phrase
o The girls, along with their brother, are coming to class.
o In between lunch and dinner at the school yard, we play for hours.
• Prepositional phrase openers
o During the last lengthy blackout, we used up all the candles.
• Using objective pronouns well o She gave the book to Jon and I. No! She gave the book to me. She gave the book to Jon and me.
o We had no idea it would get around to Cami, Kara, and I. No! We had no idea it would get around to me….so use me as object!
• Give more details
o Focus on this with elementary students
o Sentence building
Especially with Elementary and Middle Schoolers: Teach with images, mnemonics, rhymes, interactives, and check sentences
• Bugs on a Log
• Preposition Packets (Plane, Castle, Reindeer)
• Check sentence
o The plane flew _____ the clouds.
o The boy played _______ class. (time)
• Repetition
o Weekly Think Fast Quizzes Teaching Specific to Elementary Students
• Introduce as a part of sentences that give more information
• Focus on object too
• Interactives at first
• Verbal activities
• Sentence building It’s all here!
AND, I give you some pages from my most elementary preposition product: Bugs on a Log. (Don’t worry…I explain how to make your own interactive/manipulative too!)
Note: This lesson came from Bugs on a Log, a downloadable book in my Teachers Pay Teachers store! Find everything you need here!
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Next level parts of speech—pronouns! (See the “intro” to pronouns episode in Episode #7: https://languageartsladyblog.com/10-minute-grammar-episode-7-pronouns-parts-of-speech-series/ )
 
Today’s episode about pronouns covers the following:
The sneaky cat easily climbs. HE uses HIS claws. 
So far: Articles/Noun Markers + Noun + Adjectives + Verbs + Adverbs
Pronouns added this week: HE and HIS
Pro=for; pronouns are FOR nouns. They take the place of them. 
Personal pronouns (also called definite since they refer to a definite person)
He, she, we, they, I, it, you
Him, her, us,  them, me
     5.Possessive pronouns (possess/own; most troublesome; possessive pronouns never use apostrophe)
Ours, mine
Your, their
His, her
Its
     6. Possessive adjectives (could come directly before a noun)
Our, my, your
Its, their 
His, her
     7. Reflective pronouns (reflect back to someone(s) previously mentioned in the sentence)
Myself, ourselves 
Yourself, yourselves 
Himself, herself 
Itself, themselves 
     8. Indefinite pronouns (not a definite person or thing; also called nouns and adjectives in some handbooks)
Any, anybody, anyone
Each, both 
Most, much
None, no one, nobody
Some, someone, somebody, something
Either, other
Much, several, many, all
Every, everyone, everybody 
     9. Demonstrative pronouns (also called other types and even other parts is speech depending on how they’re acting in a sentence)
This, that
These, those
     10. Relative pronouns (also called other types and even other parts is speech depending on how they’re acting in a sentence—especially Subordinators that mark the beginning of a subordinate/dependent clause)
That, which
Who, whom, whose
Where, when 
     11. Interrogative pronouns (also called other types and even other parts is speech depending on how they’re acting in a sentence—especially Subordinators that mark the beginning of a subordinate/dependent clause)
Who
What, whatever
Why
Where, when
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Next level parts of speech—adverbs !
(See the “intro” to adverbs episode here!) https://languageartsladyblog.com/7105-2/
Today’s episode about adverbs covers the following:
The sneaky cat EASILY climbs.
- So far: Articles/Noun Markers + Noun + Adjectives + Verbs + Adverbs
- When my students have two difficult or confusing/similar concepts, I tell them they only need a trick for one!
     —AdVERB
     —Adjectives
AVA
—Adjectives
—Verbs
—Adverbs
 
Adverbs tell:
—HOW: carefully ran
—WHEN: later called
—WHERE: drove downtown
—TO WHAT EXTENT: extremely helpful
 
Not all adverbs are ly words
—especially those dealing with time (never, always, seldom, later)
—-especially negative words (not, never, seldom, etc)
—especially ones that are also prepositions (up, down, over, under, etc)
 
General tips
—importance of recognizing all verbs and telling the difference between action/BHL
—knowing that to plus action verb is an infinitive (a verb)
—importance of knowing the things adverbs tell (since they’re mostly action-related and different than what adjectives tell (what kind, etc)
 
Adverbs Vs prepositions
—up the mountain (prep)
—hang up the phone (up is adverb)
 
Two kinds of adverb openers
1. One word adverb opener (most ly ones use a comma: Unfortunately, he didn’t answer. )
2. Adverbial phrase or clause (have to listen carefully for where the phrase or clause ends and the “real sentence” begins: Carefully carrying the cake, he knew she would love it!)
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Next level parts of speech—verbs ! (See the “intro” to verbs episode here!https://languageartsladyblog.com/10mg_bonus/)
Today’s episode about verbs covers the following:
The sneaky cat CLIMBS. 
First three kinds of verbs 
1. Action
2. Being/helping/linking
3. Infinitives
 
Why action?
1. Forward motion of sentences 
2. What the subject is doing (action)
3. Match in number, person, and tense 
4. Need to help kids see that “action” verbs are all non-being, helping, and linking verbs (ie sleep)
 
Why BHL? (Being, helping, linking)
1. They can stand alone/show being
2. Beginning of verb phrase—need to match subject!
3. By themselves, they can’t have adverbs. 
4. Teach story writers to get rid of BHL verbs by themselves
 
Why infinitives (to+verb)
1. Distinguish between prepositions (to the fair) Vs infinitive (to run, to be)
2. Students need to recognize when a verb phrase ends because there is a prepositional phrase next (has been to the gym) Vs when it continues because there is an infinitive in it (has gone to run)
3. Students need to recognize prepositional phrases to mentally get rid of them and match. 
 
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Next level parts of speech—adjectives ! (See the “intro” to adjectives episode here!
Today’s episode about adjectives covers the following:
--Adjectives are third out of ten on my list (following) because they often describe nouns
--Often confused with adverbs—use trick “adverb has the word verb in it”
--Tell
1. Which one (other)
2. How many (five, many)
3. What kind (happy, blue)
4. Whose (your, my)
--Adjectives can end in ly—
1. Adjective + ly= adverb
2. Noun + ly = adjective
3. Ly adjective examples/ brotherly, bubbly, daily, earthly, lovely, gentlemanly, timely, weekly, smelly, pearly, oily, mannerly
--Punctuating double and triple adjectives
1. Use commas (or the word and) if both or all three adjectives are descriptive (not clarifying)
2. Use “trade places trick” to see if commas are needed
Yes—kind, wonderful person. -wonderful, kind person
No—your lovely mom
Can’t say lovely your mom
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