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"If I start with something as simple as defining the X-Words and telling the students to simply put the X-Word in front of the subject to make a question, that alone is worth the time in the class."
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The Elegant English Verb Phrase, by Linda Ann Kunz
Gaining Speaking Confidence by Mastering Basic English Questions: Using Enjoyable Games within a Simple Framework, by John Paul Loucky (Games and techniques that incorporate X-word grammar concepts)
Improving the Language and Learning of Students Who are Deaf, by Sue Livingston
The Influence of Linguistically-Oriented Techniques on the English Sentence Structure and Reading Comprehension of Fourth Grade Students. Final Report, by Ruthellen Crews
Inquiry-based Grammar Instruction , by Laurie Gluck
Linguistically-Based Language Systems for the Inner-City Student, by David E. E. Sloane, May 1979
Meet the X-Words, by Carolyn Nims McLellan, July 2010
Sector Analysis: from Sentence to Morpheme in English, by Robert L. Allen, March 18, 1967
A Sentence Is Not a Complete Thought: X-Word Grammar, by David E. E. Sloane
A Summary of Simplicity Without Elegance: Features of Sentences in L1 and L2 Academic Texts, by Eli Hinkel
Teaching Written English Through Sector Analysis, by David E. E. Sloane and Eleanor Frörup, Medgar Evers College, CUNY (TESOL Journal)
Abstract of Robert Allen's Dissertation The Verb System of Present-Day American English
What Does a Good Academic Writer Really Do? by Linda Ann Kunz and Liza Sunderlin
X-word Grammar, A Grammar for the Classroom, by John Haskell
X-Word Grammar: Offspring of Sector Analysis, by Linda Ann Kunz
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Get Healthy - Learn English: An ESL Grammar Text - Workbook, Deborah Singer Pires and Susan Khodabakshi, Cengage Learning, 2013, gethealthylearnenglish.com
Working Text: Teaching Deaf and Second-Language Students to Be Better Writers, Sue Livingston, (Available at http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/wttgbookpage.html ; also available at Amazon.com)
Working Text: X-Word Grammar and Writing Activities for Students Sue Livingston (Available at
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/wtsbbookpage.html ; also available at Amazon.com)
Basic X-Word Grammar; Editing Techniques for Developing College Writers, Carolyn Nims McLellan, Professor Emerita, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield Massachusetts, January 2009 (Available from the author at tomcar59@comcast.com for $34.95. This includes shipping and handling.)
IC/DC/P: Sentence-Level Editing Techniques, Carolyn Nims McLellan, Professor Emerita, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield Massachusetts, January 2009 (Available from the author at tomcar59@comcast.com for $34.95. This includes shipping and handling.)
X-Word Grammar for Students of English as a Second Language, Jim Lydon, ed. Judy Gex and Bonny Hart. (Full text available on this page as a pdf.)
10 Steps: Controlled Composition for Beginning and Intermediate Language Development, by Gay Brookes & Jean Withrow (available from Pearson Education) Note: Bonny Hart used this book successfully with intermediate low literacy ESL students in the Adult Literacy Center at City College. She developed vocabulary/grammar lessons to accompany each composition. Email her for a copy of her lessons in MSWord. bonnyrhart@gmail.com
26 Steps: Controlled Composition for Intermediate and Advanced Language Development Linda Ann Kunz (Full text available here as a pdf.)
X-Word Grammar Intermediate, Linda Ann Kunz (Full text available here as a pdf.)
(associated PowerPoint presentation)
The Ways of Written English, Louis Inturrisi (Full text available here as a pdf)
X-Word Grammar Intermediate, Linda Ann Kunz (Full text available here as a pdf.)
(associated PowerPoint presentation)
X-Word Grammar Advanced: A Writing and Editing Book, Linda Ann Kunz (Full text available here as a pdf.)
X-Word Grammar for ESOL Teachers, Linda Ann Kunz (Full text available here as a pdf.)
X-Word Grammar for Public School Teachers, Linda Ann Kunz (Full text available here as a pdf.)
Sloane's Professional Writing Seminar, David E. E. Sloane, Sloane Communication Systems, ©2000, David E. E. Sloane (dsloane@newhaven.edu)
Out of print: Bonny Hart has copies of all of these. |
Working Sentences, D. A. Allen, R. l. Pompian, R. L. Allen (some used copies available at Amazon--Bonny Hart has a copy)
English Grammars and English Grammar, Robert L. Allen, New York: Scribner, 1972 (some used copies available at Amazon--Bonny Hart has a copy)
The Verb System of Present-Day American English, Robert L. Allen, Mouton & Co. The Hague, The Netherlands, 1966 (Bonny Hart has a copy)
Exploration: A Linguistic Approach to Writing 1 & 2, (Teacher's Guide combined)
Robert L. Allen, Edward M. Ouchi, Mary Hiatt, and Doris Stotts, New York: Noble and Noble,1968
Discovery: A Linguistic Approach to Writing 1 & 2, (Teacher's Guide combined)
Robert L. Allen, Edward M. Ouchi, Mary Hiatt, and Doris Stotts, New York: Noble and Noble, 1968 (Carolyn McClellan has a copy)
The Tapestry Grammar: A Reference for Learners of English, Alice H Deakins, Kate Parry, Robert R. Viscount (the BIBLE-BH some used copies available at Amazon)
Looking at English, Book 1, 2, and 3, ESL Text-Workbook for Beginners, Fred Malkemes and Deborah Singer Pires, Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1981
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