Adjectives (identifying, brainstorming)

Students participate in a variety of shared reading and writing activities related to the book "Jim and the Beanstalk." They identify the key story elements, compare and contrast this version with the classic Jack and the Beanstalk, and...

Students complete activities with the book Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. In this literature lesson, students read chapter one and brainstorm adjectives for the four main characters. They make a page of vocabulary words and definitions. 

Students identify and suggest suitable parts of speech to fill in the blanks in a prepared text (the text can easily be tailored to language ability and desired subject). They use word processing to edit the text.

Stories are much more interesting to read when they involve realistic characters. The sixth lesson of this writing series helps learners add details to enhance the characters in their personal narratives. This revision process involves...

Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...

Students discover the benefits of setting goals for themselves.  In this guidance lesson, students work together as a class to identify goals. Students then investigate options for attaining their goals and discover the relevance of goal...

Students replace nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives in a poem. They identify the parts of speech, and rewrite the poem using their own selection of parts of speech.

Students listen as the teacher reads several poems from the book "Hailstones and Halibut Bones," "My Many Colored Days," and a teacher created poem. Students choose a color and share some brainstorming ideas with the class. They write a...

Young scholars create a digital newspaper. For this digital newspaper lesson, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Young scholars complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion...

Third graders work in groups to participate in a Carousel Brainstorm where they write words/phrases that describe Spring on four posters around the room. The Spring topics reflect the parts of speech and feelings about Spring. Students...