PARTS OF SPEECHSTANDARDS FOR LANGUAGE

GRADE THREE

Taylor McCaffrey & Alaina Kreft

Outcomes for the day:-Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

-Name parts of speech and give examples.

-Focus on adjectives. -Know the differences between the

parts of speech learned.-Demonstrate correct use of parts of

speech.-Communicate knowledge of parts of

speech.

NOUNS

Person, place, thing, or idea. Common nouns: school, child, crayon Proper nouns: Towson Elementary School,

Sarah, Joe Can be made plural, add an –s or –es to the

end of a word

Name the nouns! Maria went to art class and used her crayon to

draw a picture.

VERBS

Action expressed, or state of the subject.

Name the verbs! Tom hit the ball. The sky is blue.

Pronouns

Used “in place of” a noun or noun phrase

Examples= I, it, which, who, that, his, herself

When I arrived at their house, the big dog, which was called Rover, was barking loudly because it was lonely.

ADJECTIVES

Describing word Which, what kind,

how many, how much??

***Now name some words to describe yourself!

Describe the pictures using adjectives!

Describing emotions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeUEOZ7n7I

ADVERBS

Descriptive words that convey a sense of how, when, where, or why.

He quickly jumped over the sandbox. My toys are under the table.

Where are the adverbs in these sentences?

MAD LIB ACTIVITY

For tomorrow:

Review the PowerPoint again from home to reinforce what we learned today in class.

We will go into more details with nouns tomorrow.

HOMEWORK: Using your new knowledge of adjectives, describe your family in five sentences, which we will share tomorrow.

Madlibs are all over the internet and can be purchased at the library (or you can even make your own!) if you would like to practice more

Resources

http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/

tta/wc/pronouns.htm http://www.iscribe.org/english/verb.html http://www.iscribe.org/english/adj.html http://www.iscribe.org/english/adv.html http://www.playsational.com/printable-

mad-libs/