SPARC® for Grammar

SPARC® for Grammar

Ages 4-10 years

Busy clinicians rely on the SPARC series for:

• convenience and portability
• loads of pictures and practice opportunities
• systematic progression of activities
• no student reading requirement 

SPARC for Grammar includes 20 units, each targeting a specific language structure including:    

• pronouns (I, he, she, they)
• auxiliary verb (is)
• third person regular (e.g., rakes, walks)
• regular past tense (e.g., tripped, laughed)
• irregular past tense (e.g., sat, bought)
• possessive marker's (e.g., girl's, cat's)
• possessive pronouns (his, hers, its)
• copula verb (is)
• regular plurals (e.g., bowls, bananas)
• irregular plurals (e.g., men, feet)
• interrogative reversals (is, are)
• wh- questions
• interrogative reversals (do, does, did)

Each 8-page unit has four pages of picture stimuli and four pages of written prompts for the instructor.  Six types of activities progress in difficulty and provide a wealth of opportunities for students to hear and use the targeted language structure.  The activities are:

• identifying/repeating
• identify targeted structures by pointing to pictures and/or repeating sentences
• auditory bombardment
• listen to and repeat sentences in response to questions, using a picture scene stimulus
• following directions/answering questions
• follow oral directions containing the targeted structure using a picture scene
• what's wrong
• practice new structures by identifying what's wrong in a picture scene in a different context than the previous scene
• thinking skills
• practice the targeted structure while responding to questions that require reasoning
• storytelling/retelling
• listen to, sequence, and retell a short story using the targeted structure.

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