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More Review of Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs

1.  In Lesson 2, you made cards of nouns and verbs and created sentences with them. Now, tell a colorful tale to your child, full of adverbs and adjectives. Make a list of some of the adverbs and adjectives used, and the nouns and verbs they described. As you did before, switch them around and add some new adjectives and adverbs. For example:

Noun & Adjective	Verb & Adverb
fat bird	sang cheerily
shy rabbit	hopped quickly
brown dog	barked loudly
little boy	ran fast

When you change them around and assign some new adjectives and adverbs to your nouns and verbs, you might end up with:

hungry bird	ate greedily
gray rabbit	dug speedily
big dog	barked happily
tired boy	ran slowly

Now bring out the noun and verb cards you made in Lesson 2. As you did with the nouns and verbs then, take your adjectives and adverbs and write them on strips of 3 x 5 cards. The cards with adjectives will be marked with a green star and the adverbs with an orange star. If you wish to use your new nouns and verbs from your work in this lesson, put them on their own color coded cards and add them to the previous set you made for Lesson 2.

You should have plenty of cards with which to create sentences now. Choose one card of each color, and turn your words into a sentence. As before, your sentences might be very silly, but that just helps to make this fun. Make lots of different sentences and have your child read them, identifying the various parts of speech.

Play this game a couple of times this week. At least once or twice, ask your child to write some of the sentences in her Main Lesson Book and shade the parts of speech with the appropriate color. (Noun - blue; verb - red; adjective - green; adverb - orange.)