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Grade 1, Language Arts Language Mechanics: Identify correctly applied grammar - nouns, verbs, and subject-verb agreement (simple subject) (COS 20/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences This activity uses students’ speaking vocabularies to help them learn about complete sentences. Students participate in a whole-group activity to create lists of nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and write selected words on color-coded index cards. Nouns Read a poem about nouns and have students create their own noun poems. I Am a Word: Words as Names Author Paul Many created a series of lesson plans to accompany his book The Great Pancake Escape. This particular lesson uses the idea that nouns are the names of persons, places, or things. Nouns and Verbs Using the book The Greedy Python students will learn about verbs and nouns. This lesson incorporates technology with Inspiration and word processing software. Action ABCs: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs This lesson is designed to help students better use their vocabulary by teaching them what verbs are and then helping them access verbs they already know and use them in sentences.

Resources: Sentence Puzzles: Choose the skill you want to work on and play the game. It asks you to register for free, but you can click "maybe later" and skip that step. The Grammar Gorillas: This game helps students identify parts of speech. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students point to words that represent nouns or verbs. (E/B) Students choose visuals to accompany words. (E/B) Students label pictures, using nouns and simple adjectives; may use invented spelling. (E/B) Students use word charts. (E/B, D) Students repeat and rehearse nouns and verbs after the teacher pronounces them. (D) Students identify and circle all the nouns in a short reading passage. They can copy the verbs onto a list and define their meanings. (D, E) Students identify verbs by underlining all the verbs found in a short reading passage. They can copy the verbs onto a list and define their meanings. The previous activity on nouns can be combined with this one on verbs. (E) Students discuss book about oneself with a peer. (E) Students tell about someone in the class.
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