DGP

Daily Grammar Practice A grammar approach that makes sense  By Dawn Burnette and Judith Holbrook

(2) Identify and use verbs (action words) (3) Identify and use adjectives (describing words) (52) Identify and use singular and plural nouns (53) Indentify and use pronouns (personal and singular possessive) (61) Begin to use different sentence types and structures (declarative, interrogative, excalamatory) and (simple & compound) || (2) Distinguish between simple & compound subjects and predicates (3) Identify subjects & predicates (48) Use singular and plural nouns (49) Use pronouns (singular possessive and singular & plural personal pronouns (50) Use verbs (action & linking; regular & irregular) (52) Distinguish among declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences (53) Distinguish between simple and compound sentences || (2) Use declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences (47) Identify simple and compound subjects and predicates (48) Identify and use personal and possessive pronouns (50) Use singular, plural, and possessive nouns (53) Identify and use positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives (56) Distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences || (56) Use simple and compound subjects and predicates (57) Sentence purpose (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory) and structure (simple/compound) (60) Use positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives and adverbs (61) Use conjunctions (68) Punctuate sentences correctly and ensure subject/verb agreement || (61) Use modifiers (words and prepositional phrases) correctly (62) Form singluar, plural, and possessive nouns (63) Correctly identify and use sentence purpose (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory) and vary the complexity of sentences when writing (simple/compound/complex) (64) Use present, past, and future regular and irregular verb tenses (65) Use positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives and adverbs ||
 * ** Grade Level ** || ** AKS Practiced through DGP ** ||
 * 1st || (1) Identify subjects and predicates in sentences
 * 2nd || (1) Use adjectives correctly
 * 3rd || (1) Identify and use adverbs correctly
 * 4th || (55) Use nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs correctly
 * 5th || (60) Indentify and use all 8 parts of speech correctly (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection)

DGP allows students to gain an understanding of how words work together in a sentence to effectively communicate the writer's thoughts. A better understanding of how words work also builds a stronger ability to understand what is read.

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= = Working with DGP in Your Classroom





Creating Foldable Guides to  accompany your DGP lessons







Resources for Foldables and other Activities to add to DGP lessons:
Parts of Speech Staircase Activity

Parts of Speech Foldables project (4th/5th Grades)

Samples from Dinah Zikes homepage (click on “manipulatives” from the right hand menu)

Foldables from school system in Catawba, NC

All about foldables

Grammar Mania webquest for parts of speech (5th Grade)