This story became a household favorite when Gregory read it in fourth grade. Enthralled with this magical story of a boy who locks plastic figures into an old metal cupboard and opens the cupboard to meet live miniature people, Gregory read through the entire series. One of the teachers at the elementary school where my sons have been enrolled decided to introduce The Indian in the Cupboard as a Read Aloud. She had high third grade learners. For her to use in class, I redid Novel Work for Grammar Gurus, added vocabulary and shifted the focus to the CCSS for third grade.
Grammar study should derive naturally from an authentic text. The Indian in the Cupboard offers great examples of compound words: secondhand, keyhole, and cowboy are just a few. I've chosen the vocabulary by chapter and made sure to include all four main parts of speech --- nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs --- for each chapter. There are enough examples and enough context to focus on both singular and possessive nouns. However, the main focus on the novel work is basic sentence structure. What constitutes a simple sentence versus a compound?
Work on compound sentences versus complex sentence can be found in the Novel Work for 4th Grade Grammar Gurus.
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