1. Warm Up What is a noun? A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. There are more nouns in the English language than any other kind of word.

2. Warm Up What is an article? A, an, and the are special words called articles. They are noun signals. They can often tip you off that there’s a noun coming up in the sentence. The noun could be the very next word after the article. A clown ate the apple. Or it could be one or more words later. A roly-poly, floppy-eared, hilariously funny clown ate the big, red delicious apple.

3. Warm Up What is a Pronoun? A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Almost anything a noun can do, a pronoun can do, too. Pronouns are handy little words because when you use them, you don’t have to keep repeating nouns all the time. Example: Jennifer said that Jennifer was going to give Jennifer’s cats Jennifer’s cats’ food. Example with pronouns: Jennifer said that she was going to give her cats their food.

4. Warm Up What is a Conjunction? A conjunction is a word that joins other words or parts of sentences together. Conjunctions are like glue. Here is an example of conjunctions joining words together. David and Jennifer are brother and sister. Here is an example of a conjunction joining parts of a sentence together. I ran as fast as I could; however, I still missed the pie throwing contest.

5. DGP Homework Monday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection) my sister jumped on her new bed Tuesday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection) four cats ran quickly through the yard Wednesday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection) i rode my old yellow bike Thursday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection) did your dog chew the blue slippers Friday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection) monica likes the cat with green eyes