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X-Word Grammar and Writing Activities for Students
Contents
Acknowledgments
part 1
Teaching Deaf and Second-Language Students to Be Better Writers
Introduction: The Role of Oral/Aural Abilities in Writing
chapter 1 The What and Why of Writing Instruction
chapter 2 The How of Writing Instruction
chapter 3 Reading and Writing to Link Lexis and Grammar—I
chapter 4 Reading and Writing to Link Lexis and Grammar—II
chapter 5 How Will Students Know When They Are Becoming
Better Writers?
chapter 6 Best Practices: Not Just for Hearing Students
References
part 2
Teacher’s Guide and Supplement to Working Text: X-Word Grammar and Writing
Activities for Students
To the Teacher
section 1
Discovering X-Words and Subjects, How X-Words Show Time, How
X-Words Match with Subjects, Editing Practice
activity 1 Using X-Words: 20 Yes/No
Questions
activity 2 Make an X-Word Chart
activity 3 X-Words and Subjects: Statements
activity 4 X-Words and Not and n’t:
Negative Statements
activity 5 Finding X-Words and Subjects #1
Wayside School Is
Falling Down
activity 6 Finding X-Words and Subjects #2
A Letter to Mrs.
Roosevelt
activity 7 X-Words and Time #1
Wayside
School Is Falling
Down
activity 8 X-Words and Time #2 A Letter to
Mrs. Roosevelt
activity 9 X-Words and Time #3 “My Parents”
activity 10 Subject and X-Word Match-Ups #1
activity 11 Subject and X-Word Match-Ups #2
activity 12 X-Words and Time #4 “On the Evening of
September
11th, 2001”
activity 13 Subject and X-Word Match-Ups #3
activity 14 Subject and X-Word Match-Ups #4
activity 15 Subject and X-Word Match-Ups #5
activity 16 A Brief Word about Most
Wh- (information)
Questions
activity 17 Practice Editing I “The Necklace”
activity 18 Practice Editing II
Charlotte’s Web
activity 19 Practice Editing III
Charlotte’s Web
Editing Quiz I: Editing for Missing X-Words, Time, and
SX
Editing Quiz I: Answers
section 2
X-Words and Main Verbs, Hidden X-Words, Editing Practice
activity 20 X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups #1 “The King and
the Bees”
activity 21 X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups #2 “Saving the
Birds”
activity 22 X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups #3
activity 23 X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups #4
A Christmas
Treasury
activity 24 X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups #5 “The Glass
Dog”
activity 25 X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups #6
Red Scarf
Girl
activity 26 Hidden X-Words in Main Verbs: The Powerful X-Word
Does #1
activity 27 Hidden X-Words in Main Verbs: The Powerful X-Word
Does #2
activity 28 Hidden X-Words in Main Verbs: The Powerful X-Word
Do #1
activity 29 Hidden X-Words in Main Verbs: The Powerful X-Word
Do #2
activity 30 Finding Hidden
Does and Do Bob and Mary
activity 31 Hidden X-Words in Main Verbs: The Powerful X-Word
Did #1
activity 32 Hidden X-Words in Main Verbs: The Powerful X-Word
Did #2
activity 33 Finding Hidden
Did Bob and Mary
activity 34 Finding X-Words, X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups,
and Hidden X-Words #1 “The Midnight Ride”
activity 35 Finding X-Words, X-Word and Main Verb Match-Ups,
and Hidden X-Words #2 “The Story of a Great Story”
activity 36 Practice Editing I
activity 37 Practice Editing II
Charlotte’s Web
activity 38 Practice Editing III
Reading for Concepts
activity 39 Practice Editing IV
New Practice Readers
Editing Quiz II: Editing for X-Words, Verbs, and
Infinitives
Editing Quiz II: Answers
section 3
Sentence Patterns and Editing Practice
activity 40
Review of Changing Statements into Yes/No Questions
activity 41
What is a Trunk?
activity 42
Changing Trunks into Yes/No Questions
activity 43
Joining Trunks: T, + T with and
activity 44
Joining Trunks: T, + T with but
activity 45
Joining Trunks: T, + T with so
activity 46
Joining Trunks: T, + T with or
activity 47
Practice with Joiners
activity 48
One Trunk with Two Predicates: T=
activity 49
One Trunk with Three (or more) Predicates Joined by
and
activity 50
Practice with T, + T and T=
activity 51
Sentence Combining with T, + T and T=
activity 52
Linkers and Trunks (LT) “The Hotel Owner’s Mistake”
activity 53
Other Linkers and What They Mean
activity 54
Practice with Linkers
activity 55
Practice Editing for Sentence Patterns I
activity 56
Practice Editing for Sentence Patterns II
activity 57
Front and End Shifters (ft and
te)
activity 58
Shifting Shifters Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas
Present
activity 59
Shifting Shifters “Cinderella”
activity 60
A Word about Fragments
activity 61
Another Word about Fragments
activity 62
Inserts (ti)
activity 63
Inserting Inserts
activity 64
Practice Identifying ft,
te, and
ti Drip! Drop!
How Water Gets to your Tap
activity 65
Identifying all Sentence Patterns Ant Cities
activity 66
Practice Editing for Sentence Patterns III
activity 67
Practice Editing for Sentence Patterns IV
activity 68
Practice Editing for Sentence Patterns V Killing Mr.
Griffin
Editing Quiz III: Editing for Sentence Patterns
Editing Quiz III: Answers
section 4
Boxes and Main Words, Countable and Uncountable Boxes,
the
Boxes, Referents, Editing Practice
activity 69 Boxes and Main Words
The Magic School Bus Inside
the Human Body
activity 70 Practice with Boxes
New Practice Readers
activity 71 More Practice with Boxes “The Year is 1902”
activity 72 Focusing on Nouns
activity 73 Countable and Uncountable Boxes
activity 74 Practice with Countable and Uncountable Boxes
activity 75 Practice Correcting Countable and Uncountable Errors
activity 76 the Boxes
activity 77 Recognizing Reasons for
the Boxes A Letter to Mrs.
Roosevelt
activity 78 Practice with the Boxes #1
Wayside School is Falling
Down
activity 79 Practice with the Boxes #2 “Two Great Painters”
activity 80 Practice with the Boxes #3
Reading Fluency
activity 81 Referents
The Ways of Written English
activity 82 Understanding Different Forms of Referents
activity 83 Choosing the Correct Referent
Chicken Soup for the
Teenage Soul
activity 84 More Practice with Referents
activity 85 Practice Editing Inside Boxes and for Referents I
activity 86 Practice Editing Inside Boxes and for Referents II
Editing Quiz IV: Editing Inside Boxes and for Referents
Editing Quiz IV: Answers
Appendices
appendix a X-Words: Before and Now
appendix b X-Words: 1 or 2 or Many
appendix c Some Main Verb Forms
appendix d Linkers
appendix e Common Shifter Words and Phrases
appendix f Countable and Uncountable Nouns and Boxes
appendix g X-Word Grammar Correction Symbols
appendix h Model Essays
appendix i Model Essays Grammatically Analyzed
References
Index
Sue Livingston is Professor, Program for Deaf Adults, LaGuardia Community
College of the City University of New York, NY.
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