Parts of Speech

Students use the colour code as a reference while editing their own writing, so a question about whether a word is an adjective or an adverb can be answered from the wall.

Students will be able to:

• Name the eight parts of speech
• Identify the part of speech of any word in a sentence
• Use the colour code to check their own writing

Black and white prints as clean line art rather than a greyed-out copy of the colour version, so the class can colour it in. The preview above changes with this setting.

Pages

20

Colour pages

11

Black & white

9

Paper

• White: 20 sheets — Everything in the print pack
• White: 2 sheets — Mounting the sort cards
• Blue: 4 sheets — Title letters

What is in the pack

• Title letters — PARTS OF SPEECH — 4 sheets, black and white

  P · A · R · T · S · O · and 7 more

• The eight cards and the example sentence — 5 sheets, colour

  Reference sheet · Cards and example sentence, tiled across four sheets

• Definition and example cards — 3 sheets, colour

  Noun — a person, place, thing or idea. teacher, Kampala, courage · Pronoun — a word standing in for a noun. she, they, it, ours · Verb — an action or a state of being. carried, is, think, became · Adjective — describes a noun. heavy, blue, three, curious · Adverb — describes a verb, adjective or another adverb. quickly, very, yesterday · Preposition — shows position or relationship. into, under, before, with · and 2 more

  In black-and-white each card carries its own icon and border pattern, so students can still tell the eight apart.

• Colour key strip — 1 sheet, colour

  noun — teal · pronoun — blue · verb — red · adjective — amber · adverb — green · preposition — purple · and 2 more

• Word sort cards — 3 sheets, black and white

  Forty loose word cards to sort into the eight categories · Pocket template · Answer key for the back of the board

• Punctuation border strip — 1 sheet, colour

  Repeating punctuation strip

Change the title and the printable letters regenerate to match it.

1. 1

   Step 1 — Prepare the background

   Cover the board in a plain neutral. Eight colours are already doing the work, so the background must not join in.

2. 2

   Step 2 — Add the title

   Run PARTS OF SPEECH across the top.

3. 3

   Step 3 — Place the eight cards

   Two rows of four, in this order: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective on top; adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection below. Keep the order — students learn the position as well as the word.

4. 4

   Step 4 — Add the definition cards

   Pin each definition card directly beneath its part-of-speech card, so the pair reads as one block.

5. 5

   Step 5 — Lay the example sentence

   Tape the two sentence sheets together and run them across the bottom. Check every word is in the colour of its part of speech before you staple.

6. 6

   Step 6 — Add the key and pocket

   Colour key at the bottom left. Word sort pocket at the right, within reach.

7. 7

   Step 7 — Finish the border

   Run the punctuation border around the outside.

What students do

1. Take five word cards from the pocket.
2. Decide which of the eight jobs each word is doing.
3. Pin each card under the part of speech it belongs to.
4. Check the key on the back of the board and put any wrong ones back in the pocket.

For the teacher: The cards that teach most are the ones that change job depending on the sentence — run, light, fast, well. Keep at least five of those in the deck.