[senco-forum] Help teaching nouns verbs etc to sen

Many years ago there was a BBC B computer game called Pod.  Pod was a
cartoon character who did some things but not others.  The kids typed a verb
such as smile and if it was in Pod's repertoire the cartoon character would
do the action.  If it wasn't, there would be a noise and the message along
the lines of Sorry, Pod can't do that.

I have used this as an idea to teach verbs to kids having trouble
understanding that they are action words.  We draw or act out Pod and then
see if he can do things.  (the kids decide)

Once this pattern is established you could throw in adverbs.  Pod can run
quickly.

For nouns I ask the kids what their name is and then ask them to name things
around the room.

For prepositions we play at putting things in places.  "Put the xxxx under
the table." etc.

Have you looked at Linguisystems?  www.linguisystems.com They have a game
called grammar scramble.  It is a bit like scrabble except that the parts of
speech are colour coded - nouns green, verbs red or whatever.  the kids then
take 1 red card, 1 green one et c so they have a selection of all parts of
speech you are teaching.  Then they have to lay them out to make a
sentence.  Eg The red truck was eating its breakfast.  You could use this
idea by having a kind of Breakthrough to Literacy file of parts of speech on
colour coded cards.  Could this be done on a computer too?

You could also make cards and play snap.  So run would snap with shout but
not red eg.

But teaching rules per se may be too complex. A Google search turned this up

http://ballstickbird.com/articles/a28_differentways.html

Not sure if that helps.

Philippa

On 10/5/07, Richard Cook <richard_cook at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi folks
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> Need some resources to teach MLD Y7 pupils grammar, nouns, verbs etc.
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> Have googled but can't find simplified materials.
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> Any ideas, sites etc grsatefully recieved.
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> Richard
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