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Level: Grade 0 • Primer

Lesson 7: Action-Words • Building Sentences

First Book in Language • Joining Nouns with Verbs to Tell Thoughts
Living Grammar
Part 1.1 Read and discuss • Two Living Sentence Models
baby sleeping
The baby sleeps.
Name-word: The baby • Action-word: sleeps
hen
A hen lays eggs.
Name-words: A hen, eggs • Action-word: lays
Question 1: What word tells who or what? (The baby, A hen, eggs).
Question 2: What word tells what they do? (sleeps, lays).
Question 3: When a name-word joins an action-word, what do they do together? They tell something complete!
Part 1.2 Memorize: “A word that asserts something, or that tells what any-thing does, is an action-word.”
Part 2.1 Section I — Fill the blanks with name-words: Type a subject or click from the name-words bank
Suggested Name-Words Bank (Click to paste into active blank):
The man The girl The boy The baby The boys The cat The dog The men Children The bird Dogs A horse
1. walks.
5. ride.
9. play.
2. reads.
6. eats.
10. flies.
3. writes.
7. laughs.
11. run.
4. sleeps.
8. work.
12. runs.
Part 2.2 Section II — 40-Word List • Build Sentences to Tell Something: Click any word to hear or paste
a hen
eggs
mice
picks
dogs
catch
cats
bird
feet
books
grow
read
a cat
oranges
sings
caught
ate
buy
the fire
flies
eat
has
burns
an ox
have
run
reads
a book
walk
water
drinks
walks
runs
lays
laid
a mouse
boys
a boy
the girl
the man
1. A hen lays eggs. (Textbook Model)
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Part 2.3 Section III • Socratic Narration: Ask a question about each name-word, and answer using complete living sentences!
Superb! You have built living sentences from name-words and action-words!