In This Series Language Arts Poster: The Parts of Speech Language Arts Poster: The Nucleus of the Clause Language Arts Poster: A Place for the Adjective Language Arts Poster: The Complexity of Thought Language Arts Poster: Writing Is Thinking Language Arts Poster: The Beauty of the Ballad Language Arts Poster: Poetry Is Everywhere Language Arts Poster: Subject/Verb Agreement Language Arts Poster: The Verb Is the Switch Language Arts Poster: Pronoun Usage Language Arts Poster: Parts of the Sentence Language Arts Poster: Clause Punctuation Language Arts Posters: Set of 12

Michael Clay Thompson's Language Arts Posters

For years, participants in Michael Clay Thompson’s workshops have asked for copies of the images he uses to explain the workings of grammar, poetry, and other aspects of language arts. Now we are proud to make them available for classroom teachers as bright and colorful posters for the classroom wall, posters that will help students visualize the simplicity and beauty of important concepts of language.

Each poster is 17.25" by 22.5", printed on light card stock, and environmentally-friendly laminated to remain bright and fresh for many years.

For a complete overview of the program, go to the Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts Curriculum page.

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Language Arts Poster: The Parts of Speech

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Beautifully shows the eight parts of speech, with the special importance of the noun and verb.

Language Arts Poster: The Nucleus of the Clause

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A poster that displays the beautiful essence of clauses

Language Arts Poster: A Place for the Adjective

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Shows the presence of the parts of speech within the parts of sentence, with special emphasis on the opportunity for an adjective in the subject complement.

Language Arts Poster: The Complexity of Thought

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Using a sentence from the Lord of the Rings, this poster identifies the parts of speech, clauses, parts of a sentence, and the phrases in a single sentence of eighteen words

Language Arts Poster: Writing Is Thinking

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This poster probes the difference between the apparently similar process of speaking and writing, showing that writing good sentences is a form of higher-order thinking.

Language Arts Poster: The Beauty of the Ballad

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A poster that reveals the beautiful simplicity and formal clarity of the ballad.

Language Arts Poster: Poetry Is Everywhere

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 73

A poster that shows the intense use of alliteration, the stanza format, the use of some key consonants, the end rhyme, and the metaphors.

Language Arts Poster: Subject/Verb Agreement

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"They must agree, or the sentence is dead," the poster declares, and illustrates the point with "The man are here."

Language Arts Poster: The Verb Is the Switch

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A poster to illustrate the potential of a verb to be either an action or a linking verb, and the resulting difference in the sentence with objects or subject complements.

Language Arts Poster: Pronoun Usage

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A poster that illustrates Thompson’s Law: “The subject is a subject, and the object is an object”; the focus is on pronoun usage.

Language Arts Poster: Parts of the Sentence

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Highlights the divide between the subject and the predicate and illustrates the flow from action verbs to direct and indirect objects, and from linking verbs to subject complements.

Language Arts Poster: Clause Punctuation

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Illustrates the logical simplicity of clause punctuation.

Language Arts Posters: Set of 12