Building Sentences - Simple to Complex : Parts of Speech, Syntax, Fluency & Lang

Putting it All Together (PiAT) offers step by step activities for students to learn how to create sentences with increasing complexity. It is an excellent expressive language lesson plan with built in scaffolding and supports to help every student achieve success.

Who is it for: any student (grades 4-12) who struggles with a language delay, sentence formulation, sentence variation, understanding syntax, organizing thoughts, expressive language, stuttering, cluttering, and excessive non-stuttering like dysfluencies.

What does it offer:

This bundle offers lessons 1-10. Each lesson focuses on a different part of speech or syntactical structure. Those are: NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, DIRECT OBJECTS, INDIRECT OBJECTS, PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES, WHEN CLAUSES, EMBEDDED WHO CLAUSES, EMBEDDED THAT CLAUSES. Each lesson offers these activities:

· An easy to understand definition of the part of speech or syntactical structure being taught

· Circle it: starting with guiding questions, can the student find the syntactical element?

· Choose it: choose a word or phrase that completes the sentence. First all of the choices work. Then only one choice works.

· Story: A unique positive short story in order to give information and context for further expressive language activities.

· Puzzle Sentences: These are groups of words containing the syntactical element and working with information from the story to give context.

· Wh Questions: These are questions where the students can use the story and the sentence puzzles to show comprehension of the story.

· Summarize: Taking the notes from the WH questions, the student puts all of the key information into a summarizing paragraph with given prompts and supports.

· Connect and Share: This supports the student connecting with ideas in the story and sharing their own thoughts and experiences.

· Create It: offers word banks, phrase banks and sentence frames to support the student using the syntactical element in their own sentences.

· Story: offers the student a chance to link ideas and create sentences that have a story arc. This gives the student an opportunity to really develop ideas and create a flow for a full story.

Research Based: Dr. Kathy Scaler Scott PhD. CCC-SLP and Teresa Talbott CCC-SLP conducted a study on neuro-diverse students who also exhibited different kinds of fluency challenges such as excessive NSLD, cluttering and atypical dysfluency. They found that working with language formulation and organization significantly helped students become more efficient in speaking. These activities were developed in accordance with that research.