Mad About Parts of Speech

An introduction to the basic parts of speech, this worksheet provides two pages of definitions and examples for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. On the third page young grammarians must...

With the help of technology your class will review the parts of speech by utilizing an interactive crossword puzzle. They complete the puzzle individually in the computer lab. With Excel, the students know immediately if their answer is...

Find out who works in various careers with a vocabulary activity, which features matching activities and a crossword puzzle. Learners use word banks to figure out which skills belong to which career, and then fill in the blanks with...

Help your learners get a good grasp on grammar. An insightful pre-test allows teachers to learn about their young writers' knowledge of the building blocks of grammar, so they can begin building a unit of study. It includes a...

Support your learners during the speech-writing process with a five-page graphic organizer. Pupils have plenty of space to write in their evidence and arguments on this resource. The organizer provides some prompts for each section to...

This resource provides a brief but valuable discussion of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In addition to defining each term and including an example, this activity reminds students that a word's part of speech depends on how it is...

Use a Mad-Libs like activity to create modern poetry! Writers will identify different words and their parts of speech and study "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Williams Carlos Williams. Then, use the sheets attached to craft your own poem! An...

Useful teaching strategies abound in this inspirational, informative video! Walk step by step through one teacher's two-part lesson in her special education/ELL class as they develop text analysis skills by first beginning with analyzing...

Reinforce the importance of the writing process with this publication lesson. Elementary and middle schoolers compose a parts of speech book which includes one page each for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions,...

Here is a lesson that can work for virtually any grade level! Pupils study parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper nouns, and adverbs. They create fill in the blank tall tails on a web page for their classmates to complete.