Description: Students learn grammar through a progression of activities centered around meaningful scenes and pictures. The scripted stimuli are especially helpful for eliciting target grammatical structures. Busy clinicians rely on the SPARC series for: -convenience and portability -loads of pictures and practice opportunities -systematic progression of activities -no student reading requirement SPARC for Grammar includes 20 units, each targeting a specific language structure including: -pronouns (I, he, she, they) -auxiliary verb (is) -third person regular (e.g., rakes, walks) -regular past tense (e.g., tripped, laughed) -irregular past tense (e.g., sat, bought) -possessive marker's (e.g., girl's, cat's) -possessive pronouns (his, hers, its) copula verb (is) -regular plurals (e.g., bowls, bananas) -irregular plurals (e.g., men, feet) -interrogative reversals (is, are) -wh- questions -interrogative reversals (do, does, did) Each 8-page unit has four pages of picture stimuli and four pages of written prompts for the instructor. Six types of activities progress in difficulty and provide a wealth of opportunities for students to hear and use the targeted language structure. The activities are: -identifying/repeating -identify targeted structures by pointing to pictures and/or repeating sentences -auditory bombardment -listen to and repeat sentences in response to questions, using a picture scene stimulus -following directions/answering questions -follow oral directions containing the targeted structure using a picture scene -what's wrong -practice new structures by identifying what's wrong in a picture scene in a different context than the previous scene -thinking skills -practice the targeted structure while responding to questions that require reasoning -storytelling/retelling -listen to, sequence, and retell a short story using the targeted structure.

Author: THOMSEN, Susan/DONNELLY, Kathy

Publisher: Linguisystems

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE