1. Topic-
Parts of Speech - Main idea is to generate a comprehensive and complete understanding of what nouns and adjectives are.
 
2. Content-
Parts of Speech-Can students name off some different types of speech?
ex: noun, adjective, verb...

Noun-a person, place, thing or idea.
ex: Barrack Obama
Cambridge, MA
Ball

Adjective- words that describe nouns
Smelly
Blue
Soft
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1.To understand the meaning of both nouns and adjective and to be able to correctly define them.
2.To be able to pick both parts of speech out of sentences and short paragraphs.
3.To be able to correctly write sentences that use both nouns and adjectives. Students should have the skills to write short stories and spice up their stories by using adjectives.
 
4. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. Ask if students know what a noun or adjective, give them a sentence with a clear a clear noun and adjective to probe them.
2.Define both parts of speech and then give the same sentence again, see if the students can now pick out the noun and adjective.
 

B. Development-

1.Write 3 or 4 bland sentences on the chalk board.
ex. The boy ran.
My cat sleeps.
My sister talks.
The alien landed on my lawn.
2. Ask a student to define an adjective again.
 

C. Practice-

1.Ask the students to come up with the nouns in those sentences that were written on the board.
boy
cat
sister
alien
3. When the students answer the questions, ask them to justify their answers.
Why do you think that is a nouns?
Is that a person, place, thing or idea?
4.Brainstorm ideas of different adjectives. Write a list of student generated words on the chalk board.
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Pair the students off into groups of 2 or 3 and have them create their own short stories. Limit the stories to 4 or 5 sentences but explain that it must have a main character and he or she has to go on some adventure or exploration.
2. Give the students about 10 minutes to create their stories and go around making sure everyone is on task and on the right track.
3. After the allotted time is over, have the students switch stories with another group. Have the students identify the nouns and adjectives in the new story, underlining the noun and circling the adjectives.
5. Have some groups share their stories and have other students identify certain nouns and adjectives in the story.
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1.Give the students some new sentences all your own and ask them to identify the parts of speech.
-My kind mother spoke to the friendly baker about making her some delicious cookies.
-Henry was wearing a red sweater, baggy jeans, a striped hat and fuzzy socks.
-The fat dog lay on the old porch and soaked in the warm sun.
2. When the students responds to the questions, make them explain why they chose that answer and reaffirm the correct idea.
"Yes, fuzzy is an adjective because it is in fact describing the noun socks"
3.Go around the room and ask each child to create an "adjective noun sentence"
-blue sky
-black dob
-scary movie
-funny clown
 

G. Closure-

Have the students define the words again and have them each come up with their own crazy "noun adjective" sentence that they can share with the class the next day.
 
7. Evaluation-
1.How did the lesson go? Did the students seem to grasp the concept of what was being taught? What kinds of questions were they asking?
2. What could have gone smoother in teaching them? Were more examples needed? Were the examples used good enough? Is there another angle that we could look at to make the lesson more comprehensible?
 

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