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Exercises on different constructions, but from
the same story, are spread throughout these materials.
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KISS
Level One - The Basics |
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Note: The Objectives of
Different Exercises
The exercises in these books always begin
with identification, but many exercises go beyond identification to aspects
of writing style, errors, logic, punctuation, and more. In the on-line
books, the objectives of exercises are indicated by their backgrounds.
For more on this, click here. |
[These "Level" links lead to the corresponding
on-line "Master Booklet'
where you will find additional exercises
and notes for teachers.]
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Writing Sentences with Modal Helping Verbs |
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More Practice with Helping Verbs
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Fill in the blanks with interesting verbs.
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A Passage for Analysis
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Just for Fun
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Irregular Plurals
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Replacing Nouns with Pronouns
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Possessive Nouns and Pronouns Function as
Adjectives
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Fill
in the Blanks with Adjectives and/or Adverbs
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Adjectives
as Synonyms
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Adjectives
as Antonyms
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A Passage for Analysis
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Suggestion: Use exercises two through six only if your students
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Instructional Materials:
Examples of
the Analytical Process
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Mixed Complements
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A Focus on Predicate Adjectives
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A Focus on Predicate Nouns
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A Focus on Direct Objects
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A Focus on Indirect Objects
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A Focus on the Zero Complement
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Predicate Adjective or Part of the Verb?
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Writing Sentences
with Complements
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A Passage for Analysis
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Just for Fun - Mixed Complements
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Instructional Material
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Mixed Compounds
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Compound Finite Verbs
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Compound Complements
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Writing
Sentences with Compounds
Write a sentence that has three or more verbs
for one subject. Write another sentence that has four or more complements
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Sentence-Decombining
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A Passage for Analysis
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Treasure
Hunt: In a story or book that you are reading, find a
sentence that has three or more verbs for one subject. Find a sentence
that has three or more complements for one verb.
Creating an Exercise:
In a story or book that you are reading, find one sentence that has compound
subjects, two sentences that have compound verbs, and two sentences that
have compound verbs. Use them to make a mixed exercise (like exercise #
1). Make an analysis key for the exercise. (You can use the sentences that
you found in the treasure hunt.) |
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Antecedents - FiB with Pronouns or Possessive
Adjectives
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Pronouns as Subjects in Multi - S/V/C Sentences
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Personal Pronouns
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Pronouns as Predicate Nouns
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* Pronouns as Predicate
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Changing Tenses
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Review: Person, Number, Case, and Tense
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[Instructional
Material (includes material beyond Level 1)]
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The Importance of Punctuation
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Punctuating Sentences
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Commas in a Series
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Commas in Addresses and Dates
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Apostrophes to Show Possession
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Apostrophes in Contractions
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Quotation Marks
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Replacing Lost
Punctuation ? Capitalization
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Creating an Exercise:
Select a short passage from a book. Remove all the capitalization and punctuation
to make a punctuation exercise for your classmates. Do at least one of
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Vocabulary - Synonyms
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Vocabulary - Antonyms
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Fill in the blanks with interesting words
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Vocabulary and Logic
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Vocabulary - Prefixes
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Vocabulary - Roots
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KISS Level
Two - Expanding the Basics
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KISS Level 2. 1. The Complexities
of S/V/C Patterns
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A Passage for Analysis
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Just for Fun
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KISS Level 2. 2. The Complexities of Prepositional
Phrases
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Writing Sentences
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Treasure Hunt and/or
Recipe Roster:
Find and bring to
class (or write) a sentence
in which "to" is used both as a preposition
and not as a preposition. |
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Passages for Analysis
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Treasure Hunt and/or
Recipe Roster:
Find and bring to
class (or write) a sentence that has an embedded prepositional phrase
in it. Underline the embedded phrase and the phrase that it is embedded
in. |
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is to show you some of the things that you are expected to have problems
with until you get through KISS Levels Three and Four. |
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Verbs as Objects of Prepositions
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Subordinate Clauses as Objects of Prepositions
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Ellipsed Objects of Prepositions
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A Study in the
Punctuation of Interjections
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A Study in the
Punctuation of Direct Address
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Mixed Constructions
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Treasure Hunts and/or
Recipe Rosters:
a. Find and bring to class (or write) a sentence that has a noun
used as an adverb in it.
b. Find and bring to class (or write) a sentence that has an
interjection
in it.
c. Find and bring to class (or write) a sentence that has an example
of direct address in it.
d. Find and bring to class (or write) a sentence that has a noun
used as an adverb, two prepositional phrases, and a direct object. |
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