Teaching Children about Parts of Speech: Language Book 3

Teaching Children about Parts of Speech (Language Book 3) offers easy-to-understand definitions, examples, and colorful illustrations to teach students about nouns (including common nouns, proper nouns, and gerunds), pronouns, noun markers, adjectives (including possessive adjectives), verbs (including the 23 helping verbs), adverbs, prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions. Student interaction is also encouraged as most lesson pages include one or more questions relating to parts of speech. (The answers are provided at the end of the book.) Besides being taught how to identify the different parts of speech in sentences, they will also learn how to recognize a verb phrase as well as the subject and predicate of a sentence. Several reproducible worksheets and a practice test are also available for individual practice, to assess student learning, or for a teacher to use for direct instruction purposes on the classroom screen. Most of the pages in this book take only a few minutes of instruction time. It is recommended that you introduce one new page to the students daily and that you spend at least one day a week briefly reviewing pages you have already studied. This will help students to retain the information and will also help to prepare them for the corresponding unit test designed specifically for this book. A practice test is included towards the end of the book. The same practice test is also available online as a computer-based test. You can access the test free of charge by visiting the website of Habakkuk Educational Materials. The computer will notify students if an answer is correct or incorrect, and their grades will be displayed after completing a test. When the student feels confident or at the teacher’s discretion, there is also a computer-based unit test they can take to test their comprehension over the book’s content. This book could be introduced to students as early as the first grade and used throughout elementary, middle, and high school. Actual testing of the content could begin as early as the 2nd or 3rd grade.