Introduction
Welcome to the Parts of Speech Webquest! Identifying and using parts of speech is a necessary skill in developing compound and complex sentence structures.
In this activity, you will learn how to correctly identify pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, and adverbs. You will take notes, complete practice exercises, and write a 3 paragraph story for your final task. After completing the creative writing on your topic of choice, you will correctly label each of these parts of speech in your sentences. You will find that you are very good at using different parts of speech in your writing! I will read your creative writing and award a possible 100 points for this assignment based on a scoring rubric.
Task
In the first task you will watch three youtube videos below to review the target parts of speech:
You will type notes and examples of each target part of speech in the provided table:
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Pronoun
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Preposition
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Adjective
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Adverb
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Task 2: Complete the following google worksheet for practice.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rmOFP_uvV4u5xC1gNN48fp3HnGsO9oGqyxuM0D_4sFg/edit?usp=
Task 3: Write a 3 paragraph story featuring you and the topic of your choice. Please remember to make your story school appropriate! A paragraph must consist of at least 4 sentences and each part of speech must be included at least three times in your story for full credit.
Submit in google docs on google classroom.
Task 4: Once your story is complete: highlight each part of speech a different color and include the color at the bottom.
Process
Process 1:
Watch all three videos.
Copy and paste the included chart into a new google document.
Save as: Parts of Speech Notes
Submit as "classwork" in google classroom once notes are completed.
Process 2:
Click on the link provided.
Fill in the practice worksheet using your notes as needed.
Save as: Parts of speech worksheet
Submit as "classwork" in google classroom.
Process 3:
Get a pencil and one sheet of notebook paper.
Write a story featuring you and a topic of your choice- some may include discovering a new planet, traveling back in time, or singing at a school talent show.
Review the paragraph requirements- make sure to include at least three of each part of speech in your writing.
Process 4:
Get 4 different highlighters out of your pencil pouches.
On the paper with your story, make a color key for each of the parts of speech.
Highlight all examples of pronouns, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs in your story.
Turn in to your class tray for grading.
Evaluation
Grading rubric:
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20 possible points
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17 possible points |
(Followed the sentence requirements) |
51 possible points |
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12 possible points |
Extra credit for task 4- identifying more than the 3 required parts of speech in your paragraphs!!!
Conclusion
Congratulations on completing our first class webquest :)
Reviewing parts of speech can be fun and will help you create more descriptive sentences, leading to more compound, complex and compound-complex sentences. I know you are wonderful writers and I can't wait to read your creative stories. Hopefully writing about a topic of your choosing will make writing fun. I'm always here if you have questions or get stuck, so don't hesitate to raise your hand.
We will be continuing to work on parts of speech review and writing prompts as we build to the narrative writing for state testing.
-Ms Robinson