Possessive
Children’s Books
Target
-ing ending
Reflexive
Pronouns
Subjective
Prepositions
Objective
Be Verbs
Present tense
Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No
Very Bad Day,
York: Aladdin
Paperbacks,
that Good,
Use Semantic
andNew
Syntactic
Patterns
Commonly
1972
… my picture of the invisible castle
Targeted in Language Intervention
Books
Containing
Target
Merle
Peek,
Mary Wore
HerPattern
Red Dress and Henry
Wore
His
Green
Sneakers,
New
York:
Clarion Books
Audrey Wood, The Napping House,
Singapore:
Harcourt
1993
Children’s Books, 1984
… where everyone is sleeping.
Robert
Kraus,
Mouse Are You?,
Bill
Martin
andWhose
John Auchambault,
HereNew
Are York:
My Hands,
Simon
and
Schuster,
1986
New York: Henry Holt, 1995
What
your
(x)?parts) for (verb)ing and (verb)ing.
Here
areismy
(body
Margot Zemack,
The LittleSoup
Redwith
Hen,Rice,
NewNew
York:
Farrar,
Maurice
Sendak, Chicken
York:
Straus,
and
Giroux,
1983
Scholastic, 1992
Then once,
I’ll do(x)-ing
it myself,
said(x)-ing
the little
red hen.
(x)-ing
twice,
chicken
soup with
rice
Idries Shah, The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water,
Cambridge, MA: Hoopoe Books, 2001
Eric Carle, The Very Busy Spider, New York: Philomel
Mercer1999
Mayer, All by Myself, New York: Golden Books,
Books,
2001
Nicki Weiss, Where Does the Brown Bear Go?, New
York: Greenwillow Books, 1998
Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum, New
York: Penguin
USA, 1999
Mercer
Mayer, There’s
a Nightmare in My Closet,
New York: Golden Books, 1992
Bill Martin Jr., Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You
See?,
New Jr.,
York:
Henry
Hold,
1995Bear, What Do
Bill
Martin
Brown
Bear,
Brown
You See?, New York: Henry Holt and Company Inc.,
Ed Emberley, Klippity Klop, New York: Little Brown,
1995
1974
Steven Kellogg, Can I Keep Him?, New York: Dial
Books for Young Readers, 1976
Noelle Carter, My House, New York: Viking Children’s
Books,
1991They Thought They Saw Him, New York:
Craig
Strete,
Greenwillow Books, 1996
P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?, New York:
Random House, 1997
Example
Mary wore
her of
redLanguage
dress. Pattern
…saw himself…
She was very busy.
All by myself.
They are on their way home.
In the ditch, over the wood.
I always close my closet door.
I see (x) looking at me.
I see (x) looking at me.
Across the field. Through the field. Over the bridge.
I found an (x). Can I keep him?
I am a (x).
They thought they saw him.
Are you my mother?
Past tense
(be) (verb) ing
Verb Vocabulary
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Because…, New York: Athenum
Books for Young readers, 2007
This is me. I live over there in that red house.
Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, New York:
Putman Publishing Group, 1994
But he was still hungry.
Lois Ehlert, Read Leaf, Yellow Leaf, San Diego:
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991
The wind blew. They twirled and whirled.
Ruth Krauss, The Carrot Seed, Mexico: Harper Festival,
1993
A little boy planted a seed.
Lydia Dabkovich, Sleepy Bear, New York: Puffin
Books, 1985
The birds are leaving.
Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny, New York:
HarperCollins, 2005
I am running away.
Paul Galdone, Henny Penny (folktale), New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 1979
Where are you going?
Allison Lester, Clive Eats Alligators, New York:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991
Clive eats…
Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton, Why Cowboys Sleep with
Their Boots On, Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing
Company, 1995
Lassoed, branded, stripped, crawled
John Burningham, Skip Trip, New York: Viking
Children’s Books, 1984
Illustrated action words.
Charlotte Zolotow, Do you Know What I’ll Do?, New
York: Harper Collins publishers, 2000
I’ll pick you a bunch…
Modal
auxiliaries
Negatives
Questions
Do insertion
Dr. Seuss, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?, New York:
Random House, 1996
Mr. Brown can (verb), can you?
Jean Marzollo and Jerry Pinkney, Pretend You’re a Cat,
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997
Can you (action verb)?
Charles G. Shaw, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, New York:
HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1993
It wasn’t (x).
Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham, New York: Random
House, 1999
I do not like them.
Paul Galdone, The Gingerbread Boy (folktale), New
York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983
They couldn’t (x). You can’t (x).
Ann Rockwell, In Our House, New York: HarperCollins,
1991
What do we do?
Ben Shecter, When Will the Snow Trees Grow?, New
York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1993
When… and
Margot Zemach, The Little Red Hen (folktale), New
York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993
Who will (action) this (object)? Who will harvest this
wheat? Who will plan this wheat?
Nicki Weiss, Where Does the Brown Bear Go?, New
York: Greenwillow Books, 1998
Where does the (x) go?
Robert Lopshire, ABC Games, New York: Harper
Collins Children’s Books, 1986
Which one will (x)? Where is the (x)?
Stan and Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears and the
Spooky Old Tree, New York: Random House, 1997
Do they dare (x)?
Nancy Hellen, The Bus Stop, New York: Orchard Books,
1988
Can you see the bus yet?
Shigeo Watanabe, Where’s My Daddy?, New York:
Putnam Publishing Group, 1996
Have you seen my daddy?
Maurice Sendak, One Was Johnny, New York:
HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1991
…who lived by himself…
P. Adams, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a
Fly, New York: Child’s Plan, 1989
…who swallowed a fly… who swallowed a
spider…
Liza Baker, I Love You Because You’re You, New York:
Scholastic, 2001
I love you when you’re happy…
If clause
Laura Numeroff, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, New
York, HarperCollins Childrens Books, 1997
… then he’ll want a glass of milk.
But clause
Mercer, Mayer, Just For You, New York: Golden Books
Family Entertainment, 1982
I wanted to X, but…
Laurel Portet-Gaylord, I Love Daddy Because, New
York: Dutton Childrens Books, 1991
I love (x) because…
Yes/no
Have
auxiliary
Complex Sentences
Relative clauses
Wh complement
Because clause
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