Theory note · Grade 5
Retelling a text (izlozhenie)
Kinds of retelling, an eleven-step plan and ways to compress a text.
All materials
The lessons are in Russian; titles and summaries are in English.
Found: 45 materials
Theory note · Grade 5
Intonation: expressive speech
Five tools of expressive speech and a marked-up example from a poem.
Theory note · Grade 5
Morphemic analysis
Six steps of morphemic analysis, using the word «книжный».
Theory note · Grade 5
The noun
What a noun names, which questions it answers and what features it has.
Theory note · Grade 5
Noun cases and declensions
The six cases with their questions and helper words, and the three noun declensions.
Theory note · Grade 5
Proper and common nouns; animate and inanimate nouns
How to tell proper from common nouns and animate from inanimate ones.
Theory note · Grade 5
Noun gender: common gender and tricky words
What common gender is, how to agree job titles, and the gender of tricky words.
Theory note · Grade 5
Heteroclitic and indeclinable nouns
The ten nouns in -mya plus «путь»; how to find the gender of indeclinable nouns.
Theory note · Grade 5
The adjective
What an adjective expresses, which questions it answers, how it changes and how to parse it.
Theory note · Grade 5
The verb
What a verb expresses, its fixed and changing features and its role in a sentence.
Theory note · Grade 5
Verb aspect and tense
Perfective and imperfective aspect; how verbs change in the past, present and future.
Theory note · Grade 5
The phrase (word combination)
What a phrase is, what is not a phrase, and the kinds of phrases by head word.
Theory note · Grade 5
Homogeneous parts and the generalising word
Features of homogeneous parts and three patterns with a generalising word.
Theory note · Grade 6
Collective numerals
Which collective numerals exist, which words they combine with and how they decline.
Table · Grade 6
Noun, adjective, numeral compared
Summary table of three nominal parts of speech: questions, meaning, features and role.
Table · Grade 6
Pronouns: nine classes
What a pronoun is and what each of the nine classes points to.
Theory note · Grade 6
Personal and reflexive pronouns
Person and number of personal pronouns, their declension, and the reflexive «себя».
Theory note · Grade 6
Interrogative and relative pronouns
The same words: in a question they are interrogative, in a complex sentence they are relative.
Theory note · Grade 6
Indefinite and negative pronouns
How indefinite and negative pronouns are formed, how they change and how they are written with prepositions.
Theory note · Grade 6
Determinative pronouns
Ves', kazhdyy, sam, samyy and others: meaning, sentence role, sam vs samyy.
Table · Grade 6
Verb moods
Indicative, conditional and imperative mood: meaning, formation and how they change.
Theory note · Grade 6
Morphological analysis of a verb
A five-step plan for parsing a verb, with a model.
Theory note · Grade 6
Prefixes pre- and pri-
The meanings of the prefixes pre- and pri- and word pairs that are easy to confuse.
Theory note · Grade 6
Adjective suffixes -k- and -sk-
When to write -k- or -sk-, and what happens to consonants where stem meets suffix.
Theory note · Grade 7
The participle
What a participle expresses, its verb and adjective features, and what voice is.
Table · Grade 7
Forming participles: suffixes
Which stems the four kinds of participles come from and which suffixes each takes.
Theory note · Grade 7
Short participles; verb and participle compared
How short participles are formed and change, and how a participle differs from a verb.
Theory note · Grade 7
The preposition
What a preposition does, which relations it expresses, and its kinds by structure.
Theory note · Grade 7
Derived prepositions
Where derived prepositions come from, which case they take and how they are spelled.
Theory note · Grade 7
Conjunctions. Coordinating conjunctions
What conjunctions do, coordinating vs subordinating, and six groups of coordinating conjunctions.
Vocabulary · Grade 7
Spelling dictionary, part 2
Eight groups of tricky words: pre-/pri-, verbs, numerals, N/NN, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, particles.
Theory note · Grade 7
Gerund phrases: when no commas are needed
Three cases where a gerund or gerund phrase is not set off by commas.
Theory note · Grade 8
Separating and setting-off punctuation
A punctuation map: where marks separate parts and where they set words and phrases off.
Theory note · Grade 8
Phrases: types of subordinate link
Agreement, government and adjunction; indivisible phrases; a model analysis.
Theory note · Grade 8
Kinds of sentences; word order
Six features used to classify sentences, and direct and inverted word order.
Theory note · Grade 8
Attributes: agreed and non-agreed
What an attribute is and what expresses agreed and non-agreed attributes.
Theory note · Grade 8
Apposition (a): what it is
What an apposition is, what it denotes and how to tell it from the word it describes.
Theory note · Grade 8
Apposition (b): the hyphen
When an apposition is joined with a hyphen and when it is written separately.
Table · Grade 8
One-member sentences
Five kinds of one-member sentences: what the main member is and what it means.
Theory note · Grade 8
Homogeneous parts: punctuation
Patterns of homogeneous parts with and without commas.
Theory note · Grade 8
Generalising word with homogeneous parts
Five patterns with a generalising word and examples from the notebook.
Theory note · Grade 8
Homogeneous and heterogeneous attributes
How to tell whether attributes are homogeneous and need a comma between them.
Theory note · Grade 8
Separated attributes: an algorithm
Three questions that decide whether an attribute is set off by commas.
Theory note · Grade 8
Phrases with KAK: comma or not
An algorithm for when a phrase with kak is set off by commas and when it is not.
Table · Grade 9
Adverbial clauses
Ten kinds of adverbial clauses: questions, conjunctions and models.
