Stage 1a.

One Subject and One Verb

The bird sings.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: sings.

2. Who is it that sings? – The bird
Stage 1b. Once Subject Two Verbs

The boy runs and laughs.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 2: runs, laughs.
2. Who is it that runs? – The boy.
Stage 1c. Two Subjects One Verb

Brother and sister play.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: play.

2. Who is it that plays? – Brother.
3. Who else is it that plays? – Sister.
Stage 2a. One Subject, One Verb, One Object

Jenny baked cookies.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: baked.

2. Who is it that baked? – Jenny.
3. What did Jenny bake? – cookies.
Stage 2b. Two Subjects, One Verb, One Object

Brother and sister paint flowers.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: paint.

2. Who is it that paints? – Brother.
3. Who else is it that paints? – sister.
4. What do my brother and sister paint? – flowers.
Stage 2c. One Subject, One Verb, Two Objects

The cat eats fish and chicken.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: eat.

2. Who is it that eats? – The cat.
3. What does the cat eats? – fish.
4. What else does the cat eats? – chicken.
Stage 2d. Two Subjects, One Verb, Two Objects

The teacher and the student brought pencils and erasers.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: brought.

2. Who is it that brought? – The teacher.
3. Who else is it that brought? – the student.
4. What did teacher and student bring? – pencils.
5. What else did the teacher and student bring? – erasers.
Stage 2e. Two Subjects, Two Verbs, Two Objects

My friend wrote the letter and I read it.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 2: wrote, read.
2. Who is it that wrote? – My friend.
3. Who is it that read? – I.
4. My friend wrote what? – the letter.
5. I read what? – it.

When transposing, make sure the child is aware that pronoun ‘It’ cannot be first because
we don’t know what it is about.
Reading Analysis Chart 1.

The dog drinks water.

The work is done in the same way as stage 2a.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: drinks.

2. Who is it that drinks? – the dog.
3. The dog drinks what? – the water.
Stage 3. Adverbial Phrase

Yesterday the boys made a bonfire in the backyard.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: made.

2. Who is it that made? – the boys.
3. What is it that the boys they made? – a bonfire.

Point out that now we have used all the arrows and symbols, so we need to bring the rest
of the symbols out of the box. Take out all orange arrows and symbols and lay them out.

4. The boys made a bonfire when? – yesterday.

5. The boys made a bonfire where? – in the backyard.
Stage 4. Indirect Object

The dog gives the man his bone.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: gives

2. Who is it that gives? – the dog.
3. The dog gives what? – the bone.

Read through all the questions on orange arrows. After reading? The child will realize
that none of the questions fit. Then take out the black arrow for indirect object and the
smallest black circle.

4. The dog gives the bone to whom? – the man.

*Instead of transposing, remove indirect object from the sentence and read the remaining
sentence. Then put indirect object back and remove direct object. Read the sentence.
Point out that without the direct object the sentence is incomplete, we cannot make a
clear picture of what is going on.
Reading Analysis Chart 2
Stage 5a. Attributes

The sharp scissors easily cut the black velvet.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: cut

2. What is it that cuts? – the sharp scissors.
3. The sharp scissors cut black velvet how? – easily.
4. The sharp scissors cut what? – the black velvet.
 5. Which scissors cut black velvet?

Cut off the adjective and analyze further.

Read through all the questions on orange arrows. After reading, the child will realize that
none of the questions fit. Then take out the blue arrow and the blue triangle.

The blue arrow goes either straight up or straight down based on where you have more
space.

6. Which scissors cut black velvet? – the sharp.

7. Which velvet do sharp scissors cut? – the black.
Stage 5b. Appositions.

During the winter, we burn fir, a hardwood tree, in our fireplace.

Questions:

1. How many words do we have that tell us what to do? – 1: burn

2. Who is it that burns? – we.
3. We burn what? – fir, a hardwood tree.
 4. When do we burn fir? – during the winter.
5. Where do we burn fir? – in our fireplace.

Ask the child if there are any other words we can analyze.

Draw he child’s attention that we have the word telling us which/what kind of tree fir is.
Get the blue arrow, cut the slip ‘fir, a hardwood tree’ in half.

Place the blue arrow next to the direct object. Then bring and introduce the black triangle,
place it next to the blue arrow.

6. What kind of tree fir is? – a hardwood tree.

Remove the slip that is on a black triangle, read the sentence and confirm that it makes
sense. Remove the name of the tree, place the slip ‘a hardwood tree’ back and read the
sentence again. Point out that the sentence is fine, but we might not know which tree we
are talking about. When we got both, we got a very precise picture.