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

Scally's World of Verbs(Topologika) takes the Pod ideas to a whole new
dimension!
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Judith
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From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Paul and
Philippa Bodien
Sent: 05 October 2007 02:07
To: Richard Cook
Cc: Senco Forum
Subject: Re: [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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