Parts+of+Speech+(4th+Grade)

by Chris Pugh

=**Standards**=
 * Language Arts - CFU 0401.1.1** Know and use appropriately the meaning, forms, and functions of nouns (e.g., singular and plural, common and proper, singular and plural possessives), verbs (e.g., action and linking, regular and irregular forms, correct tenses, agreement in person and number with both simple and compound subjects), adjectives (e.g., proper comparison forms, articles), pronouns (e.g., subject, object, and possessive; singular and plural; agreement with antecedents), and adverbs (i.e., proper comparison forms, negatives).


 * ISTE NETS **3.** **Research and Information Fluency** b.** locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.

=**Lesson**= TSW...
 * 1) Open Kidspiration 3, click on Reading/Language, scroll down to Parts of Speech Word Sort, then click it and OK.
 * 2) Click on the NAME button from the top to type their name, then click OK.
 * 3) Click on Firefox.
 * 4) Click in the address bar and type [|www.visualthesaurus.com].
 * 5) Scroll down the page to click on the VocabGrabber activity.
 * 6) Open the reading story for the day in the reading text.
 * 7) Type one sentence from the story, then click the "Grab Vocabulary!" button.
 * 8) Click on each word and read the definitions from the right.
 * 9) Once the correct definition has been decided, click on Kidspiration 3 icon.
 * 10) Type the word into a text box and drag to the sorting box with correct heading, noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.
 * 11) Click on Firefox icon to go back and repeat steps 8 - 10 until all text boxes have been used. (If the sentence doesn't have enough words to use the boxes, type a 2nd sentence into VocabGrabber.
 * 12) Quit Firefox.
 * 13) Click on FILE and PRINT to printe completed page in Kidspiration 3.