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TITLE:  Parts of Speech Review

AUTHOR:  Rebecca A. Banko, Holy Rosary School;
         Idaho Falls, ID

GRADE LEVEL:  Appropriate for grades 3-6

OVERVIEW:  Students need to know how to correctly use words
in their writing and speaking.  By reviewing parts of speech
with hands-on activities, children will retain and enjoy
studying sentence structure.

OBJECTIVE(s):  Students will be able to:
1.   work within a group to develop the correct answer
2.   describe how to diagram a sentence by first arranging
     classmates into a human diagram
3.   understand the concepts of modifiers
4.   understand the concepts of helping verbs
5.   diagram a sentence correctly at their seats

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
     Write each word of a sentence on a piece of paper or on
an index card.  Be sure to write large enough so that all
the seated children will be able to see the cards from the
front of the room.
     Practice with sentences that review a particular part
of speech or sentence structure (ex. compound sentences,
phrases, etc.)
     Distribute each card throughout the class.  Have the
students that received cards line up in correct order in
front of the rest of the class.
     Have a seated student read the sentence orally for the
rest of the class.
     Identify the simple subject of the sentence by asking,
"Who or what is the sentence about?"
     Identify the simple predicate of the sentence by
asking, "What is the subject doing in this sentence?"
     As you progress you would identify the direct object
next.
     As each of the following are identified the student
holding that card steps forward.  If a helping verb is in
the sentence have the student with the helping verb card
step forward and put his/her arm around the action verb in
the sentence.
     Go back to the person holding the subject card.
Identify any modifiers.  Have each child holding a card that
modifies the subject move behind the subject.
     Move on to the person holding the predicate card(s).
Identify any modifiers.  Have each child holding a card that
modifies the predicate move behind the predicate.
     As students become more proficient add prepositional
phrases and identify the object of the preposition and what
the phrase modifies.

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER:  Students should be able to label all
the parts of speech in the sentence that the students just
worked on.  Progress to having students label similar
sentences on their own.  Have the students at their seats
correctly diagram the sentence that the class just worked
on.  Progress to having the class diagram similar sentences
on their own.  KIDS LOVE THIS ACTIVITY TO BRING LANGUAGE
ARTS OUT OF BOOKS AND INTO THEIR HANDS!!!