Using Picture Books as Model Texts for Grammar Lesson

(TESOL Materials--Story Time, Sources for Model Texts)

[This is an index of Story Time Materials that I've repurposed as Model Texts for Grammar Lessons.]

1st Conditional

* 1st Conditional: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Articles

* I often use The Gruffalo to illustrate that the first time something is mentioned, the indefinite article is used (e.g. "a mouse"), but the subsequent times that thing is mentioned, the definite article is used.

Defining and Describing Relative Clauses

* Using Strega Nona to Teach the Difference Between Defining and Describing Relative Clauses

Noun Clauses

* Using Strega Nona to Teach Noun Clauses

Prepositions of Movement

* Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins : slides, pub and handout: docs, pub

Reduced Relative Clauses

* I used The Knight Who Was Afraid of the Dark to introduce Reduced Relative Clauses.  We read through the story together, and then I highlight some sentences like "long ago in a time known as the Dark Ages" and "his faithful electric eel wound round his arm." and "flinging her arms around Sir Fred" (this last one not a reduced relative clause, but a good example of an active participle clause.)

Reported Speech

* Using "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" to teach Reported Speech

Sense Verbs + Infinitives

* Using "A Fish Out of Water" for Sense Verbs + Infinitives