SUBSCRIBE chat center Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Gazette|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise NEW LESSONS SEARCH BROWSE SUBMIT! <<PREV MORE LESSONS NEXT>> Share | Print Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange #29. Colorful Parts of Speech Grammar, level: elementary Posted by Angela Ackley (Ackley@knownet.net). The Teacher's Desk Ashtabula Catholic Middle School, US Materials Required: paper, pencil, coloring utensils, teacher prepared sentences Activity Time: class period Concepts Taught: recognition of parts of speech To help students learn the functions of words within a sentence, we Language Arts teachers were often encouraged to teach them how to diagram. YUCK! I never liked this activity, for I felt it defeated the purpose of illustrating relationships within a context. Rather, it encouraged separation and partition. To give my students practice in identifying parts of speech and noticing the positioning of words in a sentence, I developed the activity Colorful Parts of Speech. Directions: A. Have the students copy several sentences on their paper. I prefer them to use pencil. You may want to dictate the sentences to them. B. Assign a particular color to each of the eight parts of speech. I use the following: * Nouns= blue * Verbs= red * Adverbs= green * Adjectives= yellow * Pronouns= purple * Prepositions= orange * Interjections= brown * Conjunctions= black C. Have the students underline each of the words in the sentence according to its function. NOTE: You may want to start with only nouns and verbs, then progressively add more parts of speech as your students become more proficient. Your students' papers will certainly be colorful, and the finished products make a nice display. My fifth and sixth-graders enjoy this activity because, even though it is a skills practice, they think of it as an art project. And everyone knows: ART IS FUN! Submit Lesson   Search   Browse   Request Lesson       June: The 30 Days of Teachers.Net (Introduction) 1 The Gazette 2 The Mailrings 3 Harry Wong 4 Lesson Bank 5 Tech Center 6 Teacher Classifieds 7 State Teachers.Net 8 Live Chat & Meetings 9 Teacher Printables 10 Project Center 11 Chatboard Network 12 Share Teachers.Net 13 Your Feedback 14 Interest Groups 15 Administrators.Net 16 Chat Center 17 Streaming Teacher Video 18 Tutoring Center 19 Academic Grants 20 Teachers.Net Bookshelf 21 Chatboard Tips 22 Grade Levels 23 Staffroom Flyer 24 Teachers.Net Archives 25 Hot Topics 26 Language Arts 27 Subject Areas 28 Quick Links 29 Meet Teachers.Net 30 Summer Job Fair

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