8 Parts of Speech

Nouns  Concrete Nouns  Abstract Nouns  Common Nouns  Proper Nouns  Compound Nouns Grammar Rocks: Nouns Wanna Live Forever? Become a Noun Noun relay: Start with a noun (kangaroo) Next person has to say a noun using the last letter of the previous word orange.

Verbs  Action  Linking  Helping Verbs: That’s What Happening Charades- acting out as many action verbs as possible Helping Verbs Song

Pronouns  Personal  Possessive  Indefinite  Demonstrative  Interrogative Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla Scattegories- start with a common noun heading like car, then come up with as many pronouns that could replace that noun Pronoun Trouble: Rabbit Season

Prepositions  Object of the preposition is either a noun or a pronoun  Prepositional phrases Busy Prepositions

Conjunctions  Coordinating  Subordinating  Correlative Conjunction Junction

Adjectives  What kind?  Which one?  How many?  Article adjectives- Unpack Your Adjectives "around the world“- start with a common adjective like pretty, then go as far around the room as you can by coming up with synonyms for the adjective.

Adverbs  How?  When?  Where?  To what extent?  Modify: verbs, adverbs, and adjectives Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Activity: Take list of adverbs and categorize the words. Your group will decide on the category titles.

Interjections  Strong- exclamation point  Mild- comma Interjections!