1. Parts of Speech
It is important to understand that every word in a sentence has a job to do, a role in the sentence.

2. Monday

3. There are eight parts of speech.
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Articles
Prepositions
Interjections

4. Noun: person, place, thing or or idea
Person: Ms. Morgan likes to eat spinach.
Place: Kealing is the best middle school on earth.
Thing: Ms. Roy owns one million geeky board games.
Quality: Honesty is a great value to possess. Respect is a must between teachers and students.

5. Pronoun: takes the place of a noun
She likes to eat spinach.
They ran after the run-away cat.
He got sick from eating too many peanuts.

6. Verb: shows action or state of being
Action: Ms. Stewart
fished all summer.
State of being: Ms. Lowe
is happy every morning.

7. Adjective: describes a noun
The brilliant students balanced the national budget.
The strange stretches in yoga class made us look like pretzels.

8. Adverb: describes a verb
The sixth grade students worked happily on their poetry assignments.
The puppies hungrily ate the spilled cereal.

9. Conjunctions: words that join words, phrases or sentences
Hannah and Alex love to cook.
You will study Greek, or you will study Pig Latin.
I am happy because all my students are respectful to one another.
It has been cloudy since the morning.

10. Common conjunctions
FANBOYS
For
And
Nor
But Or
Yet So

11. Article: there are only three articles – the, a, an (Articles are a subset of adjectives.)
The bicycle was not only red, but also shiny.
A yellow moon always appears in October.
An excellent student, Ms. Cooper passed all her exams the first time.

12. Preposition: a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another part of the sentence.
The cat was on the table.
The dog was under the table.
These are some common prepositions:
for on to up
at under above toward
with between in behind
from upon into off

13. Interjections: expressive words
Wow, Ms. Feldman knocked that ball out of the park!
Oh, you really should finish your homework on your own.
Ouch, why did you drop that piano on my toe?
Ah, now I understand the problem.

14. Tuesday

15. Play Parts of Speech Game
Play Arcademics Word Invasion invasion/invasion.swf

16. Wednesday

17. Play Grammar Gorillas Beginner (nouns and verbs only)
Advanced level (all parts of speech)

18. Thursday

19. In the sentence below, identify the role/job each word serves.
The beautiful queen walked slowly on the cool lawn, and she read aloud a long book about knights and kings.