Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

60 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 3B | The Goose and the Golden Eggs

 Syntactic Awareness Activity

Creating Compound Sentences Using so

Note: The purpose of these syntactic activities is to help students

understand the direct connection between grammatical structures

and the meaning of text. These syntactic activities should be used

in conjunction with the complex text presented in the read-alouds.

There may be variations in the sentences created by your class. Allow

for these variations and restate students’ sentences so that they are

grammatical. If necessary, have students repeat the sentence after

you.

Directions: Today we are going to make sentences using the word so.

1. We can connect two sentences with the word so to show a reason
   and a result.
    Show image 3A-2: Farmer and the goose’s nest


2. What kind of egg does the goose lay in the fable? (The goose lays a
   golden egg.) How does the farmer feel about the golden egg? (The
   farmer feels shocked.)


3. Let’s put these two sentences together: the reason—the goose lays a
   golden egg; the result—the farmer feels shocked.
   The goose lays a golden egg, so the farmer feels shocked.


4. We will make one more sentence using the word so. At first, how
   did the farmer feel about the egg; what did the farmer think was
   happening?
   The farmer thought that someone was playing a trick on him.
   What was the farmer going to do with the egg? (The farmer was going
   to throw the egg away.)


5. Can you put these two sentences together using the word so? The
   reason—the farmer thought that someone was playing a trick on him.
   The result—the farmer was going to throw away the egg.
   The farmer thought that someone was playing a trick on him, so the
   farmer was going to throw away the egg.


6. With your partner, think of another reason and result from the fable
   “The Goose and the Golden Egg.” Use the word so to put your two
   sentences together.