NOUNA person, place or thing:

cat, homework, state, pencil, manIf you have it, it’s a noun.

A proper noun is a specific noun. It is always capitalized:

Garfield, English, Texas, Mr. Biggs

NOUN ACTIVITY1. On the first page of your Notes section (in your journal), write

the definition and examples of nouns.

2. Look through old magazines for pictures of nouns. (At least THREE will need to be proper nouns.)

3. Glue your pictures onto a piece of construction paper to make a collage. You may add titles, doodle or write captions to show “dialogue” between the nouns. If you have time, make another! Points given for creativity. Make your collages as funny, interesting or unique as you like.

4. Write all your team members’ names on the back of the collage.

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VERBAn action word:

swim, finish, shout, take, smile, batIf you do it, it’s a verb.

Some verbs are helpers:I can finish my homework.

VERB ACTIVITY1. On the first page of your Notes section (in your journal), write the

definition and examples of verbs.2. Choose a letter of the alphabet by randomly opening to a page in

the dictionary. On a student’s phone, set the timer for 4 minutes. 3. Flip through your dictionaries or use your memory to write down

all the verbs you can find or think of starting with that letter. 4. After the timer goes off, compare lists. Decide who has the most

verbs beginning with that letter. They MUST ALL be verbs… use your dictionaries to check. (The winner gets a sticker!)

5. Make sure to write your name on your list. Staple all to turn in. 6. If there is still time, do it again with another letter.

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ADJECTIVEDescribes people, places & things:

small babyopen door

second period

If you are it, it’s an adjective.

ADJECTIVE ACTIVITYEach student will create an acrostic poem, using adjectives to describe themselves or another person.

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ADVERBDescribes adjectives, verbs, and

other adverbs.

Max drives slowly (verb = shows action)Slowly is how Max drives.

dark brown (adjective = describes)Veronica’s hair is brown, and dark tells us

how brown her hair is.

ADVERB ACTIVITY1. Adverb Search: Look through old magazines to find examples of

adverbs. Create a group list of adverbs. Try to find as many examples as you can of adverbs that modify adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs. Write all team members’ names on the list!

2. Walking Charades: Come up with a list of ways that a person can walk (quietly, clumsily, calmly, sadly, sleepily, nervously, quickly, timidly, etc.)

3. Practice how you will act out your charades for the class, so that you can play charades with the class when it’s time to present.

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PRONOUNTakes the place of a noun:

Mr. Duncan wrote on his board when he would see students for tutorials at the end of their day.

Mr. Duncan and students are nouns, and his, he and their are pronouns.

PRONOUN ACTIVITY1. Take turns reading books to the other members of your team.

Pick one person each turn to be the “checker.”

2. Whenever you hear a pronoun, raise your hand. If you don’t raise your hand when a pronoun is read, put your hand on your head. Two hands on your head means that you’re out!

3. The checker will use the list of pronouns to catch people who raise their hand/don’t raise their hand at the right times.

4. Now… write a paragraph about what you did this weekend. Take turns reading one another’s stories out loud… but every time you read a pronoun, add in the person’s name instead. Try to do this without laughing!

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COMMON PRONOUNShe she you they themhim her his hers yourWe us ours their theirsI me mine myselfIt its itself ourselvesnobody anybody everybodyhimself herself yourself

PREPOSITIONShows position, adds detail, or

relates a noun to another word:

The necklace is in the box, on top of the desk near the TV.

Prepositions help us connect the necklace to

box, box to top, top to desk, and desk to TV.

PREPOSITION ACTIVITY1. Decide on an object in the classroom. It could be a poster on the

wall, an object on a shelf, a dictionary under a certain desk, etc.

2. Write directions for a classmate to find the object, using prepositions. You must write at least FOUR sentences, using each preposition only once. Underline the prepositions.

3. When your classmate has found the object, try it with another one!

You can do this individually or as a team. If you do it as a team, you must create a set of directions for at least THREE objects!

You can then do this with the class tomorrow.

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COMMON PREPOSITIONSto by of in onup off from toward awayunder over beside aroundbehind underneath throughwithin without past uponnear into down at acrossafter along against above belowabout between along outside