The document outlines several grammar topics and activities that can be used to teach different aspects of grammar to various age groups. It includes:
1) Descriptions of activities focused on topics like gerunds, verb patterns, adjectives, and tenses that can be used with students from second to fourth grade.
2) Suggestions for how each activity could be structured, such as individually, in groups, or as a class discussion, as well as whether the focus is on grammatical form or meaning.
3) Brief explanations of example materials and templates that could be used for activities on topics like character descriptions and memory games involving verb tenses.
The document outlines several grammar topics and activities that can be used to teach different aspects of grammar to various age groups. It includes:
1) Descriptions of activities focused on topics like gerunds, verb patterns, adjectives, and tenses that can be used with students from second to fourth grade.
2) Suggestions for how each activity could be structured, such as individually, in groups, or as a class discussion, as well as whether the focus is on grammatical form or meaning.
3) Brief explanations of example materials and templates that could be used for activities on topics like character descriptions and memory games involving verb tenses.
The document outlines several grammar topics and activities that can be used to teach different aspects of grammar to various age groups. It includes:
1) Descriptions of activities focused on topics like gerunds, verb patterns, adjectives, and tenses that can be used with students from second to fourth grade.
2) Suggestions for how each activity could be structured, such as individually, in groups, or as a class discussion, as well as whether the focus is on grammatical form or meaning.
3) Brief explanations of example materials and templates that could be used for activities on topics like character descriptions and memory games involving verb tenses.
The document outlines several grammar topics and activities that can be used to teach different aspects of grammar to various age groups. It includes:
1) Descriptions of activities focused on topics like gerunds, verb patterns, adjectives, and tenses that can be used with students from second to fourth grade.
2) Suggestions for how each activity could be structured, such as individually, in groups, or as a class discussion, as well as whether the focus is on grammatical form or meaning.
3) Brief explanations of example materials and templates that could be used for activities on topics like character descriptions and memory games involving verb tenses.
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 3
At a glance
Powered by AI
The passages discuss different grammar exercises that can be used with students of various ages, including using adjectives to describe characters, a memory game for tenses, and potential issues that may come up.
Adjectives can be used to give information about a character's appearance and personality. Teachers may have students identify adjectives in stories, brainstorm adjectives for characters, and create character profiles using adjectives.
The memory tenses card game is similar to traditional Memory/Concentration games. Players take turns flipping cards to match sentences with their correct verb tenses.
Grammar Age group Aids Form of Focus on Practice or Possible problems
topic interaction form/meaning consolidatio
n Getting up Using Third grade Established First, Both. Consolidation Different reading gerunds (8 – 9 years rules individually and levels. Verb old) Cards then in groups. Intolerance. patterns Paper and pen Problems Agreeing or deciding. disagreeing Too much noise. Character Describing Second Fairy Tale or Group Form since the Practice Fine motor Adjective appearance grade (7 – 8 text of your interaction point is to problems Concertina and years old) choice (you can when analysing learn how to Template personality also use a the text and order the Order of the movie) individual work adjectives. adjectives Concertina while creating Template the character Crayons, description. pencils, scissors and glue. Memory Recognizing It can vary Memory tenses Group Focus on Consolidation Too much tenses different depending cards interaction meaning. competitivity cards tenses on how Improve many tenses memory you want to use. Present Present Fourth year The map Open pairs or Both (you have Practice Some students continuous continuous learning The role cards mix and mingle to make the are slower so with future with future question they may not be meaning meaning correctly but able to get all the also get the answers message) Spelling of the names Mistaking with “going to do” The Prepositions Third year The picture Individually Meaning Practice Difficult words memory of place of learning The questions first and then because you (you need to pre game There whole class don’t have to – teach was/were checking say much, just vocabulary) To be in the understand it past tense
Character Adjective Concertina Template
A fun and creative way to learn about how adjectives can be used to describe a character’s appearance and personality. Use this template when learning about the different parts of a sentence and how adjectives are used in writing to provide information about nouns. This teaching resource is ideal to use in the classroom when reading, deconstructing and responding to Literature. After enjoying a shared reading experience of a Fairy Tale, Traditional Tale or other text of your choice: discuss how adjectives are used to give information about characters in the story identify adjectives within the text brainstorm adjectives that describe your chosen character complete the steps to create a character concertina make a vibrant classroom display. Memory tenses cards Like the traditional “Memory” game, players, in turns, will turn upside-down each card and try to match the sentence with the tense that is being used.
Grammar Practice Simplified: Guided Practice in Basic Skills (Book B, Grades 3-4): Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns, Capitalization, Subjects, Predicates, and More