Introduction
What are parts of speech important to know and understand?
Today lets explore some parts of speech to better understand English!
You will visit various websites to read and learn more about parts of speech. You will focus on learning nouns, verbs, and adjective for today. By the end of this webquest you will be able to identity a noun, verb, and adjective. You will also explore other parts of speech but will not do a deep dive on them today. You will study a chart and play a sorting game using the new information you learned. You will also have the opportunity to study other helpful resoucres.
Task
The Big Question: What are parts of speech so important to know and understand?
For this task you will answer this question in paragraph form. You will write a paragraph that includes at least 6 sentences. Aspects that must be included are...
- Introduction sentence
- Concluding sentence
- Examples that help support the your answer to the "Big Question".
Process
Study the information above and use the link game to help you apply the information. You will then be able to answer the task question. You can also use the link labeled "help" if you need for information to answer the task question.
Game Link: https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-5/sort-words-with-shared-suffixes-by-part-of-speech
Help Link: https://learncybers.com/what-is-parts-of-speech/
Evaluation
Checklist for paragraph:
Paragraph: Includes partially includes does not include
Introduction sentence
Concluding sentence
Examples that help support the your answer to the "Big Question".
Thoroughly answers the big question.
Use of capital letters to start a sentence and periods to end.
Conclusion
Through completing this webquest you were able to answer the big question.
The Big Question: What are parts of speech important to know and understand?
You used the attached resources and applied newly learned information to answer the question now you are able to identity parts of speech and know what they mean.
Credits
Websites I used in this webquest.
IXL.com:
https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-5/sort-words-with-shared-suffixes-by-part-of-speech
Parts of Speech Article:
https://learncybers.com/what-is-parts-of-speech/
-All images were from Google.
Teacher Page
Students can take as long as needed for this activity. They should study the parts of speech image first then play the game to practice sorting words. Next, they should move on to writing their paragraph answering the big question.