Grammar

DLR

Unit 3

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The Marble Champ Grammar Day 1 TG. 273M

Introduce Action Verbs

Action Verbs

  • An action verb is a word that expresses action. It tells what the subject does or did.
  • A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb. It answers the question what? Or whom? after the verb.

Underline the action verb. Circle the direct object.

The coach congratulated us with a big grin.

We ran to the store.

Our class likes to play in the snow.

Write a sentence of your own and underline the action verb and circle the direct object.

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Daily Language Review Day 1

Add a noun that receives the action.

  1. Lupe found some ______.
  2. She squeezed an ______.

3. She exercised her ______.

The Marble Champ Grammar Day 2 TG. 273M

Review Direct Objects

The noun or pronoun that follows a verb is called the direct object of the verb.

Write two sentences with examples of with direct objects. Underline the verb. Circle the direct object and draw an arrow from the direct object to the verb.

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ListAction VerbsDirect Objects

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Daily Language Review Day 2

Add a noun that receives the action.(Direct Object)

  1. Lupe kicked the ______.
  2. She scored a ______.

3. She helped the other ______.

The Marble Champ Grammar Day 3 TG. 273N

Underline the action verb. Circle the direct object.

Lupe blew her nose and studied the angles.

Learn from Literature

Read p. 267 of The Marble Champ and list the action verbs and their direct objects on this page.

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Daily Language Review Day 3

Add a noun that receives the action.

  1. Lupe’s father encouraged ______.
  2. They ate ______.

3. Lupe invited ______.

The Marble Champ Grammar Day 4 TG. 273N

Review Action Verbs

List from the Daily Language Review:

Subjects VerbsDirect Objects

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Mechanics and Usage: Commas in a Series

  • A comma tells the reader to pause between the words it separates.
  • Use commas to separate three or more words in a series.
  • Do not use a comma after the last word in a series.

Example:

She knelt, aimed, and shot the marble.

My example:

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Daily Language Review Day 4

Add a noun that receives the action.

  1. Lupe beat her first ______.
  2. Lupe blasted two ______out of the circle.

3. Her opponent stamped her ______.

The Marble Champ Grammar Day 5 TG. 273N

Daily Language Review Day 5

  1. The referee stopped the ______.
  2. A gust of wind blew ______in her eyes.
  3. She hugged her ______.

Grammar - The Paper Dragon – Day # 1

Verb Tense

  • A verb in the present tense tells what happens now.
  • In the present tense, you must have subject-verb agreement. Add –s to most verbs if the subject is singular. DO not add –s when the subject is I, you, or plural.

Circle the subject and the verb in the Daily Language Review

Subject Verb

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Daily Language Review Day 1

Correct the sentences.

  1. The author always tell good tales.
  2. Mi Fei paint every day.

3. The paintings looks good all the time

Grammar - The Paper Dragon – Day # 2

Verb Tense

  • A verb in the past tense tells about an action that already happened.
  • Add –ed to most verbs to show past tense.
  • A verb in the future tense tells about an action that is going to happen.
  • To write about the future, use the special verb will.

Label each sentence in your Daily Language Review present, past, or future tense.

Present PastFuture

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Daily Language Review Day 2

Correct the sentences.

1.The men wanted help now.

2. Mi Fei help them tomorrow.

3. He walks outside yesterday.

Grammar - The Paper Dragon – Day # 3

Learn Form Literature

Highlight the past-tense verbs.

In morning’s orange glow, he again unrolled his scrolls, one after another. Mi Fei stared at one, a hero’s rescue of a beautiful princess lost in the hot desert, then nodded.

Read pages 294 and 295 of The Paper Dragon and list past tense verbs ending in -ed along with their subjects.

SubjectsPast Tense Verb

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Daily Language Review Day 3

Correct the sentences.

  1. Long ago a dragon appear.
  2. Today it climb up the mountain.
  3. Mi Fei face the dragon later.

GrammarThe Paper Dragon – Day # 4

Mechanics and Usage: Spelling Changes

  • If a verb end is s,ch,sh,x,or z, add –es in the present with a singular subject.
  • If a verb ends with a consonant and y, change y to I before adding –es or –ed.
  • If a verb ends with e, drop the e before adding -ed.
  • If a verb ends with one vowel and one consonant, double the consonant before adding –ed.

PresentTensePast TenseFuture Tense

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Daily Language Review Day 4

Correct the sentences.

  1. A boy watched as he paints.
  2. Last night, Mi Fei will beg the dragon to return to sleep.
  3. The dragon carried him away before sunrise tomorrow.

GrammarThe Paper Dragon – Day # 5

Daily Language Review Day 5

Correct the sentences.

  1. Mi Fei solved the task next week.
  2. Last night, the dragon laughs.
  3. The artist always try to help.

Grandma Essie’s Wagon

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Grammar Day # 1

Introduce Main and helping Verbs:

Main and Helping Verbs

  • The main verb in a sentence shows what the subject does or is.
  • A helping verb helps the main verb show an action or make a

statement.

  • Have, has, and had are helping verbs.

( Has is used with a singular subject, while have is used with a plural subject, I, or you.)

My mother has helped me with many things.

Examples: Underline the main verb. Circle the helping verb.

Daily Language Review Day 1

Fill in the correct helping verb.

  1. Papa ______decided to go west.
  2. Last night, Mama ______wished for good weather.

3. We ______finished loading the wagon.

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon Grammar Day 2 TG. 339M

Introduce Helping Verbs

Helping Verbs

  • Is, are, am, was, and were can be helping verbs.
  • Will, shall, can and could are helping verbs.

Use is and was with a singular subject.

Use are or were with a plural subject or you.

Use am or was with I.

Write a sentence for each of the helping verbs to be with the verb talking.

Singular subject helping verbs (is, was)

Plural subject helping verbs or you (are, were and I (am, was.)

Singular and plural helping verbs

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Write a sentence using the helping verbs is, were, will, can, and could.

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Daily Language Review Day 2

Fill in the correct helping verb.

  1. They ______playing in the house.
  2. We ______travel in the wagon for days.
  3. Mama ______made curtains for the house.

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon Grammar Day 3 TG. 339N

She’d made rag dolls with button eyes and long yarn braids for us girls, and Papa had carved Kenneth a toy horse and made Jack a wagon.

She’d =______

Rewrite the following paragraph in present tense by changing the helping verbs had and was to has and is.

Christmas eve Papa went out and chopped down a small tree with bare branches.

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Mama had cut pictures out of the Sears- and Roebuck catalog, and we hung them

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all over till the tree looked alive. She’d made rag dolls with button eyes and long

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yarn braids for us girls, and Papa had carved Kenneth a toy horse and made Jack a

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wagon. After all the popcorn was popped and eaten all our cranberries strung, we

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sang “Away in a Manger.”

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Daily Language Review Day 3

Fill in the correct helping verb.

  1. The horse ______being wild again.
  2. I ______help scrub the walls now.
  3. The wind ______blown hard the past two weeks.

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon Grammar Day 4 TG. 339N

Mechanics and Usage

Contractions & Helping Verbs

Contractions

  • A contraction is a shortened form of two words.
  • A contraction can be made by combining a verb with the word not.
  • An apostrophe (‘) shows the letter o has been left out.

is not ______were not ______

are not ______has not ______

was not ______have not ______

had not ______will not ______

cannot ______could not ______

Daily Language Review Day 4

Fill in the correct helping verb and make corrections as needed.

  1. the horse ______covered with flowers
  2. You ______yell if you see a tornado

3. i ______dancing to pleas the baby

Daily Language Review Day 5

Fill in the correct helping verb and make corrections as needed.

  1. he ______auctioned off the animals already
  2. we ______bumping down the road again
  3. stella ______sing for us

Going Back Home

Going Back Home Grammar Day 1 TG. 371M

Introduce Linking VerbsLinking Verbs

  • A linking verb does not show action. It connects the subject to the rest of the sentence.
  • Common linking verbs are am, is, are, was, were, will be, seem, appear, look, taste, feel.

Write a sentence using the linking verb am.

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Daily Language Review 1

Correct the sentences.

  1. stories is interesting?
  2. michelle are an artist

3. i were the little girl in the picture

Going Back Home Grammar Day 2 TG. 371M

More About Linking VerbsLinking Verbs

  • A linking verb links the subject of a sentence to a noun or an adjective in the predicate.
  • The noun or adjective that follows the linking verb names or describes the subject.

Write a sentence using the linking verb is. Circle the noun or adjective that follows the linking verb is.

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Daily Language Review 2

Correct the sentences.

  1. you is the reader of this story
  2. they was tired
  3. the pictures looks beautiful

Going Back Home Grammar Day 3 TG. 371N

Learn from the Literature

Underline the linking verb, circle the subject and put a rectangle around the adjective or noun that follows each linking verb in the sentences below.

Water was important too. It was the source of life-for my family, for their livestock, for the crops.

Read the passage below. Underline the linking verbs. Circle the subject and the noun or adjective that the linking verb connects in each one.

I was fascinated by my family’s stories. I was the curious one who would listen to the grownups’ tales. As I grew older I tried to piece together my family’s history from the scraps of memories they would share with me. When you look at my art, you will see that I often create quilt-like backgrounds. This is my way of showing how pieces of life can fit together.

Because I am an artist, I express my thoughts and feelings visually, through pictures. This picture, “The Family Way,” represents family love and togetherness. When I set out to trace my family tree, my family supported me in every way.Going

Daily Language Review 3

Correct the sentences.

  1. your aunt seem old and weary
  2. they were farmers next year

3. her family appear strong

Back Home Grammar Day 4 TG. 371N

Mechanics & Usage Abbreviations

  • An abbreviation is the shortened form of a word.
  • Some abbreviations begin with a capital letter and end with a period.
  • We often abbreviate titles before people’s names and the days of the week.
  • You can also abbreviate many of the names of the months.

Examples:

Monday ______Tuesday ______

Wednesday ______Thursday ______

Friday ______Saturday ______

Sunday ______

January ______February ______

March ______April ______

May ______June ______

July ______August ______

September ______October ______

November ______December ______

Mister ______Misses ______

Miss ______Doctor ______

Others:

Daily Language Review 4

Correct the sentences.

  1. the treats tastes delicious
  2. the dress are new

3. he were a preacher

Daily Language Review 5

Correct the sentences.

1. we feels safe

2. they am cowboys

3. i are proud

A Mountain of a Monument

A Mountain of a Monument Grammar Day 1 TG. 381M

Introduce Irregular Verbs

Irregular Verbs

  • An irregular verb is a verb that does not add –ed to form the past tense.

Examples:

PRESENT TENSE PAST TENSE

write ______

drive ______

ride ______

take ______

fly ______

draw______

swim ______

throw ______

speak ______

choose ______

drink ______

know ______

wear ______

teach ______

Daily Language Review Day 1

Correct the sentences.

  1. the Indian chief rided a big horse
  2. he fighted for the rights of his people

3. standing bear writed to an artist about making a statue

A Mountain of a Monument Grammar Day 2 TG. 381M

Review Irregular Verbs

List five irregular verbs.

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Introduce Special SpellingsIrregular Verbs

  • Some irregular verbs have special spellings when used with the helping verbs have, has, or had.

Present TensePast Tense Past Tense with Have, Has, or Had

(Past Participle)

beginbegan______begun

eatate______eaten

growgrew______grown

writewrote______written

drivedrove______driven

riderode______ridden

take took______taken

flyflew______flown

drawdrew______drawn

swimswam______swum

throwthrew______thrown

speakspoke______spoken

choosechose______chosen

drinkdrank______drunk

knowknew______known

wearwore______worn

teachtaught______taught

Write the verb swim with have, has, or had.

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Daily Language Review Day 2

Correct the sentences.

  1. they choosed a site for the statue
  2. work on the statue has began

3. the artist had drew an outline

A Mountain of a Monument Grammar 3 TG. 381N

Learn From Literature

Identify /underline the past tense verb.

Standing Bear wrote, “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man had great heroes, too.”

Read the boxed text on p. 377, “Who Was Crazy Horse.” List the past tense verbs.

Past Tense Verbs

Daily Language Review Day 3

Correct the sentences.

  1. people had drove to the mountain to tour the museum
  2. the sended soldiers
  3. we have knew what the statue will look like for years

A Mountain of a Monument Grammar Day 4 TG. 381N

Review Irregular Verbs:

Mechanics & UsageUsing Commas

  • Use a comma to set off a person’s name when the person is spoken to directly.
  • Use commas after introductory words such as yes, no, and well.

Examples:

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Daily Language Review Day 4

Correct the sentences.

  1. it has took many years to carve the face of crazy horse
  2. he had rode his horse into battle
  3. the statue drawed many visitor

Daily Language Review Day 5

Correct the sentences.

crazy horse teached us many things

2. i have flew over the statue in an airplane

3. the statue has grew every year

A Mountain of a Monument Grammar Day 5 TG. 381N

Reteach Present, Past and Past Participle Forms of Verbs

Use the word swim and write a simple sentence using the present, past and past participle form of the verb swim.

Present:______

Past:______

Past Participle: ______

My List of Regular and Irregular Verbs:

PresentPastPast Participle

Daily Language Review Day 5

Correct the sentences.

  1. crazy horse teached us many things
  2. i have flew over the statue in an airplane

3. the statue had grew every year

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