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Sixth
Grade - KISS Levels 1, 2, and 3.1 |
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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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Passages 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 Verbs, Adjectives, 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
need more examples of the specific types of complements. |
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Instructional Material:
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
(Finite Verbs)
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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
Nouns -- A Research Project |
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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
interjectionin
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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KISS
Level Three - Clauses |
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KISS Level 3. 1. The Basics of Clauses
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Material: Main Clauses |
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Identifying Main Clauses
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Syntax
and Logic - Compounding Main Clauses
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Treasure Hunt -
Find
and bring to class three compound sentences, one with a dash, one with
a colon, and one with a semicolon. Be prepared to state and explain if
and how the sentences you have found follow the general rules -- "amplification
(informal)" for dashes, "amplification (formal)" for colons, or "contrast"
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Writing
Compound Sentences with a Dash, Colon, or Semicolon |
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Identification
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A Passage for Analysis
In addition to some verbals, this selection includes a noun clause used
as the object of a preposition (in a fragment) and a noun clause used as
a subject. |
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Style
- Parallel Constructions
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Style
- Parallel Subordinate Clauses
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Identification
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Treasure
Hunt (and/or Recipe Roster): Find and bring to class (and/or
write) a sentence that has a clause used as a direct object.
Creating an Exercise: In a story or
book that you like, find five sentences that have noun clauses used as
direct objects. For your classmates, make an exercise with them; for your
teacher, make an analysis key. (Remember that your teacher may use your
exercise in future years.) |
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Identification
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Sentence-Building
- Adding Adverbial Clauses
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Rewriting
Adverbial Clauses as Main and Main as Adverbial
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The Logic of Adverbial
Clauses (ID - Ten Sentences)
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The
Logic of Adverbial Clauses (Combining Five Sentences)
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A Passage for Analysis
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Treasure
Hunt (and/or Recipe Roster): Find and bring to class (and/or
write) a sentence that has an adverbial subordinate clause in it.
Creating an Exercise: In a story or
book that you like, find five sentences that have subordinate clauses used
as adverbs. For your classmates, make an exercise with them; for your teacher,
make an analysis key. (Remember that your teacher may use your exercise
in future years.) |
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Identification
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Mid-Branching Adjectival Clauses
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Sentence-Building
- Adding Adjectival Clauses
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Punctuating Adjectival
Clauses and Other Modifiers
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Rewriting
Adjectival Clauses as Main and Main as Adjectival
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A Passage for Analysis
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Treasure
Hunt (and/or Recipe Roster): Find and bring to class (and/or
write) a sentence that has an adjectival subordinate clause in it.
Creating an Exercise: In a story
or book that you like, find five sentences that have subordinate clauses
used as adjectives. For your classmates, make an exercise with them; for
your teacher, make an analysis key. (Remember that your teacher may use
your exercise in future years.) |
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[These are relatively rare, but they do appear
in the writing of primary school students.]
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Mixed Noun Clauses
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Subordinate Clauses as Objects of Prepositions
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Noun Clauses as Subjects
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Noun Clauses as Predicate Nouns
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Treasure Hunts (and/or
Recipe Rosters):
Noun Clauses as Objects of a Preposition
Find and bring to class (and/or write) two sentences
that have a subordinate clause used as the object of a preposition.
Noun Clauses as Subjects
In a book that you like, find two sentences
that include noun clauses used as subjects. For your classmates, make an
exercise with them; for your teacher, make an analysis key. These clauses
are not easy to find, so your teacher may have you work in groups to do
this, perhaps by having each student search a different chapter of the
same book. (Remember that your teacher may use your exercise in future
years.)
Predicate Nouns
Find and bring to class (and/or write) two sentences
that have a subordinate clause used as a predicate noun. |
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As an example of embedded
clauses (Analyze in class?)
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Identification
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Passages for Analysis
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The "suppose you say that I said that she said"
play in this 78-word passage makes it a humorous, but challenging exercise
with third and fourth level embeddings of subordinate clauses. |
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