Lesson 2 - Parts of Speech

🕐 Lesson Overview

Bellringer
Notes: Parts of Speech
Label parts of speech

⭐ Objectives

I can define the basic parts of speech.
I can identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
I can match modifiers to what they modify.

📏 Standards

🗽 NYSNGSS

7L3:
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
7L5:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
7L6:
Acquire and accurately use general academic and content-specific words and phrases; apply vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

🗒️ Lesson Plan

Anticipatory Set

As a bellringer, the teacher will ask students to attempt to write an example of a noun, a verb, an adjective, and an adverb in their journals. As an extension challenge, the teacher will ask students to write a sentence that includes all four of the words they brainstormed. The teacher will take attendance as students think and write. Once sufficient time has elapsed, the teacher will invite students to share their responses. The class will then review the agenda and objectives.

Developmental Activity

Students will copy the following notes about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in their journals.

A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Proper nouns are a specific person, place, or thing.

A verb is an action word.

An adjective describes a noun.

An adverb describes a verb or an adjective.

The teacher should provide tips for identifying the parts of speech, such as, when examining a modifier, students should ask themselves what word is being modified as that will help them distinguish whether the word is an adjective or adverb.

After students have had time to copy, the teacher will show clips from two Khan Academy videos to build further understanding: Introduction to Verbs and Intro to Adverbs (01:05 - 04:02).

Closure

The class will, using the Gradual Release model, label the parts of speech in each of the following sentences. The teacher should preemptively provide parts of speech for any words not reviewed in today's lesson (i.e. articles, pronouns, and prepositions).

Johnny was in Argentina last week.
The blond boy runs quickly.
Raul is a pretty penguin.
Lazily, he rose from the couch.

The teacher should note capitalization of proper nouns (Johnny, Argentina, Raul). Particularly for the last example, the teacher should model how certain parts of speech can be moved around within the sentence depending on the writer's preference and to vary sentence structure. Additionally, when identifying adjectives and adverbs, the teacher should challenge students to identify what words they modify.

Students will then independently complete the Parts of Speech Practice.

🧠 Rationale

This lesson ideally should be a review of knowledge and skills from previous years' instruction. However, this foundational knowledge is critical when diving into more complex matters of English grammar.