Parts of speech mad libs teacherToday with Ms Maddocks you are going to review parts of speech:
- Nouns
- A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
- There are two kinds of nouns: common and proper.
- A common noun names someone or something but not a particular someone or something
- A proper noun names a particular or special person, place or thing.
- Verbs
- A verb shows action, or what something or someone is.
- Adjectives
- An adjective describes or gives more information about a noun.
- Adverbs
- An adverb is used to give more information about verbs. They can tell you how, when, or where an action occurs.
- Pronouns
- Pronouns are words used in place of nouns, often to avoid repeating a noun.
- One type of pronoun you need to know is the personal pronoun:
- Personal pronoun: I, me, you, she, he, her, him, they etc.
- Prepositions
- Prepositions are joining words. They are “pre-positioned” before nouns and pronouns to join them to the rest of the sentence.
- Eg/ after, over, under, beside, on, before, below, around, until, within, past, during, among, through, behind etc.
- Conjunctions
- Conjunctions join or connect two or more words in a sentence.
- Coordinating conjunctions join together words or groups of words that are used the same way
- Eg/ and, but, or
- Subordinating conjunctions add other ideas to the main idea of a sentence
- Eg/ after, although, as, because, how, if, than, that, though, unless, until, when, before, where, while
- Interjections
- These are easy. An interjection is a word or phrase used to express strong emotion or surprise.
- Eg/ Wow! Hey!
- These are easy. An interjection is a word or phrase used to express strong emotion or surprise.
- Coordinating conjunctions join together words or groups of words that are used the same way
- Conjunctions join or connect two or more words in a sentence.
- Prepositions are joining words. They are “pre-positioned” before nouns and pronouns to join them to the rest of the sentence.
Then, as a class, you are going to complete a madlibs exercise from the The Hunger Games. To do this, you will need to suggest parts of speech for Ms Maddocks and then she will fill in the madlibs selection. She’ll read you the original and then read you the version you created as a class.
Practice:
Noun:_________
Adjective:_________
Plural noun:______________
Noun:_____________
Noun:_____________
Adjective_______________
Adjective:_______________
Noun:_______________
Noun:_______________
Verb (ending in ING) ________________
Verb (ending in ING) ________________
Plural noun:______________
Plural noun:______________
Plural noun:______________
Verb (ending in ING) ________________
Preposition_______________
Plural noun:_________________
What makes madlibs silly and fun is that the sentences still make grammatical sense even though they sound ridiculous.
Then you’ll have a chance to create your own madlibs exercise for your book. You will have some time in class today to work on this but we also want to make sure you get reading time. If you’ve finshed your reading, make sure you have also completed your role work for your literature circle meeting and make sure you have three discussion questions done. If all this is in your folder, you can keep working on your madlibs.