Do Your Kiddos Know Their Parts of Speech?

Every year I am amazed at how many of my students do not know what a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb is.  I know when I was in school this stuff was pounded into our heads. I also remember taking sentences apart and diagramming them, labeling each part.  It sometimes seems that we are so caught up with "higher order thinking" that we forget the basics.

I know memorization and recognition might be on the bottom of the Blooms Taxonomy Scale, but we as educators cannot ignore the importance of these basic components of a sentence. I also know that it seems like we have so much to teach and so little time.

A suggestion.... quiz your students on Parts of Speech whenever you have a few minutes such as lining up for lunch or recess, or before leaving for the day.  Kids often see this as a "game" and don't even know they are learning.

And to assist you, I have created a set of Parts of Speech Posters that you can put up in your room.  One teacher said that she copied several to a page and had her students glue them in their writing journals in the Word Work section.

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