Jan - go to the KISS website (Ed Vavra) at

http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/KISS.htm

It is simply the best treatment of prepositions that I have seen.  I
have had great success with it.

Marcia Alessi
Los Angeles
On May 9, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Jan Kammert wrote:

>>   I changed direction and
>> started with grammar  -- nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and then
>> prepositions (4 pages).  This is what the book says:  "Prepositions
>> help a reader or listener understand the relationship of one word to
>> another.  A preposition relates a noun or pronoun to another word in
>> the sentence."
>> Two of the four pages on prepositions talk about distinguishing
>> between
>> prepositions and adverbs.
>>
> Prepositions are hard for my 8th graders.  I have not seen a definition
> that's understandable.  Does anyone have an easy definition?
> Jan
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Marcia Alessi
Language Arts & Social Studies
Sixth Grade
St. Paul the Apostle School
Los Angeles, California

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