Parts of Speech

• Parts of Speech Party – Gift

  Can your students spot all of the different ways we can use the word "gift"?

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  1. First, students read the paragraph and try to identify the part of speech for each underlined word.

  2. We reveal each answer and then challenge students to write their own parts of speech party paragraph!

• Parts of Speech Party – Care

  How many different ways can we use the word "care"?

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  1. First, students read the paragraph and try to identify the part of speech for each underlined word.

  2. We reveal each answer and then challenge students to write their own parts of speech party paragraph!

• Parts of Speech Party – Fruit

  How many different ways can we use the word "fruit" in one paragraph?

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  1. First, students read the paragraph and try to identify the part of speech for each underlined word.

  2. We reveal each answer and then challenge students to write their own parts of speech party paragraph!

• Parts of Speech Party – Change

  How many different ways can we use the word "change"?

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  1. First, students read the paragraph and try to identify the part of speech for each underlined word.

  2. We reveal each answer and then challenge students to write their own parts of speech party paragraph!

• Parts of Speech Party: Introduction (Check)

  Students will identify the part of speech of "check" and its variants in this wacky paragraph.

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  1. Students determine the part of speech for each underlined versions of “check.”

  2. We reveal the answers!

• Analyze Suffixes: -en

  Students will note the effects of adding a suffix to a word and then look for counter-examples that break the patterns.

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  1. First, students will note what changes when we add the suffix -en to three words.

  2. Then, we ask students to look for examples of words with the -en endings that doesn't fit the pattern.

• Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful

  Students will note the effects of adding a suffix to a word and then look for counter-examples to those patterns.

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  1. First, students will note what changes when we add the suffix -ful to three words.

  2. Next, students look for what happens when we add the suffixes -less and -ly to three different words.

  3. Finally, we ask students to look for examples of words with these endings that don't fit the patterns.

• Parts of Speech Tournament

  Students will evaluate eight parts of speech to decide which wins a tournament.

• Parts of Speech Party – Well

  Students will identify the part of speech of "well" over and over and over!

• Parts of Speech Party – Thanks

  Students will identify the part of speech of "thanks" over and over and over!

• Parts of Speech Party – Limit

  Students will identify the part of speech of "limit" over and over and over!

• Pronouns With Too Many Antecedents

  Students practice improving unclear pronouns… and then create their own confusing sentences!

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  1. Students learn about antecedents and attempt to clean up some unclear sentences.

  2. Building on an unclear sentence from step one, students will try to write a whole paragraph with an unclear pronoun.