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Haiku Course Session 4Review and Work Samples for Receiver of the Action

Andy Stetkevich and Judy FuhrmanStaff Development SpecialistsRiverside, California

Prior to viewing this PowerPoint,watch unit 4 of the FYT DVD

Predicate Expanders That Carries the Action of the Subject to the Receiver

Symbol and Question Words Punctuation Substitute Namers Indirect Receiver Teaching to Mastery

After school, the teacher

carries student assignments

home to grade.Guide,

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RECEIVER OF THE ACTIONIt is a predicate expander answering the question what or whom received the action. It does not have mobility, so it cannot be put in a triangle.

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RECEIVER OF THE ACTIONIt is a predicate expander answering the question what or whom received the action. It does not have mobility, so it cannot be put in a triangle. It is permanently attached to the predicate.

What receives the action in this picture?

Margaret shares her dessert with her best friend.

Barney samples a delectable treat from his best friend.

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1st Grade

The teacher read a big

book aloud. The students

retold the main events

of the story in barebones sentences. The teacher typed the summary, and the students

diagrammed the

sentences.

“The young artist carefully creates a masterpiece in his studio.”

5th Grade Retained

Generate a sentence about this picture. Include a receiver.

Daily caption writing using targeted sentence structures builds writing

fluency.

What is the complete subject?

Deadfall: An Alaskan

Mystery by Sue

Henry

What is the complete subject? What is the barebones?

Confidence comes with knowledge.

Teach students to use their analysis skills to determine

the function of words in sentences.

As the sun went down behind a western stand of trees,

staining the clear sky the brilliant fuchsias and golds that are

often a part of fall evenings in south central Alaska,

the breeze, sharp with a hint of frost, stirred itself

into a gust of wind that whistled around the eves

and tugged a flight of fluttering dark yellow leaves

from a tall stand of birch,

sending them swirling through the

air like a flock of small voiceless birds.

Indirect receivers answer the question to what/to whom & for what/for whom.

Generate a sentence about this picture using an indirect receiver.

Isabella presented her mother a bouquet of roses.to whom wha

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• Who or what is the sentence about?

• What did Isabella do?• What did Isabella present?• To whom did Isabella

present a bouquet of roses?

Remind students to ask themselves the questions.

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