Nouns! Nouns! Nouns!
Identify the nouns in this sentence:
The boys played football.
boys, football
Identify the verbs in this sentence:
The player kicked the ball across the field.
kicked
Identify the adjectives in this sentence:
He likes to eat a big breakfast before school.
big
Who is the speaker of the poem?
Spider-Man
What is a noun?
person, place, thing, or idea
Identify the nouns in this sentence:
She bought soda and popcorn before seeing the movie.
soda, popcorn, movie
Identify the verbs in this sentence:
The girls hiked up the mountain and crossed the river.
hiked, crossed
Identify the adjectives in this sentence:
He was a great musician who wrote impressive songs.
great, impressive
What is annotating?
Marking up a text with comments, summary, explanation, or questions about what we read
What is an adjective?
a word that describes a noun
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence:
Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Identify the verbs in this sentence:
The woman travelled across the state to eat at her favorite restaurant.
travelled, eat
Identify the adjectives in this sentence:
It was a cold and rainy day in the crowded city.
cold, rainy, crowded
What is the difference between the author and the speaker?
The author writes the poem, and the speaker is the imagined voice that talks within the poem
Identify any articles in this sentence:
The boy stopped to pet a dog while walking to school.
the, a
Identify the pronouns in this sentence:
Anna walked her dog around the town.
her
Identify the verbs in this sentence:
The students went home after school.
went
Identify the adverb in this sentence:
The student is an impressively fast reader.
impressively
What is dialect?
Language that reflects or represents how people actually talk in conversation
What is an interjection?
a word that expresses strong emotions
Identify the pronouns in this sentence:
After the student received her quiz, she sat down and started working on it.
her, she, it
Identify the verbs in this sentence:
Are you ready for tomorrow's quiz?
are
Identify the adverbs and adjectives in this sentence:
The night was very cold and the wind blew loudly against the window.
Adverbs: very, loudly
Adjectives: cold
What is tone?
Identify prepositions in this sentence:
Before coming to school, the student found $20 under her bed.
before, under