Parts of Speech

We're still hacking through the parts of speech in my class.  We've finished nouns, verbs, adverbs, and we're almost through adjectives.  I spend about 10 minutes a day reviewing parts of speech (part of our word work). I always try to mix things up for my students.  I'm lucky enough to have only 20 students this year, but of these 20, 15 are boys, 5 have I.E.P.s (with another 2 on waiting lists to be tested), and 6 have behaviour issues (and that's on a good day) - whew!.  Needless to say, I HAVE to mix things up, keep things structured, yet fun, and engage them in hands-on activities as much as possible.  For each part of speech we co-create anchor charts (I "borrowed" this idea for adjectives from a chart I saw on pinterest, but my students think they came up with it themselves).

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For their independent Word Work, I'm using the book Hot Fudge Monday - they LOVE the funny activities, and I LOVE that they actually WANT to complete the work.
We also use the SMARTboard  a lot so they can circle and highlight the various words on the board - and sometimes I even let them use the magic pen.  ;)

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They also really enjoyed the poster activity we did on "Life is a Verb" (see last post).  I'll have to tie something like this into each unit - it would be great to have real student created posters for each of the parts of speech.

But I've got a surprise for them tomorrow.  They LOVE using my Comprehension Cootie Catchers for pair share activities after their independent reading.  And I mean LOVE - I've never seen a bunch of boys so excited about using cootie catchers.  So, I made a Cootie Catcher Parts of Speech package for them.  This activity contains a cootie catcher for common nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.  I'll pair up two students, each with a different cootie catcher, and they can take turns identifying the correct words.  I may even turn it into a little game WITH a timer going on the SMARTboard.  Watch out, boys .... I told you learning can be FUN!

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I just posted this activity to my TPT store.  Click on the picture above to preview the activity.  And ... for a little extra fun, I'll send a FREE copy to the first two people to leave me a comment (with their email address) telling me their favourite way to review parts of speech.

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Happy Wednesday!