Jaylene Reitsema

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Parts of Speech
English Language Arts
Grade 3
References:
English Language Arts K-9 (2009). (n.d.). Retrieved October 4, 2014, from Government of
Alberta website: http://education.alberta.ca/media/450519/elak-9.pdf
Free Tools to Incorporate Game-Based Learning | Edutopia [Web log post]. (n.d.). Retrieved
October 4, 2014, from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/free-tools-to-incorporate-gbl-andrewmiller
Information and Communication Technology. (2000). Retrieved October 4, 2014, from
Government of Alberta website: http://education.alberta.ca/media/453069/pofs.pdf
Reading Activities for Kids on Funbrain | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Resources. (n.d.).
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http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html?Password=null
Wacky Web Tales. (n.d.). Retrieved October 4, 2014, from http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
Activity:
Students will learn the differences between nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives and how they
enhance speech. Students will navigate to their choice of the following links, Alphabet Mad
Libs, Prehistoric Mad Libs, Once Upon a Mad Libs, or School Rules! Mad Libs, where they will
choose between nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. After finishing this activity, students will
then navigate to Wacky Web Tales where they will provide their own nouns, verbs, adverbs,
adjectives, and other words.
General Learning Outcomes
English Language Arts
4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry
of communication.
4.2: Attend to grammar and usage
- Use adjectives and adverbs to add interest and detail to own writing.
ICT Outcomes (Division 1):
F 5: Students will practise the concepts of ergonomics and safety when using technology.
1.1: Demonstrate proper posture when using a computer.
F 6: Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of the operating skills required in a variety
of technologies.

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1.1: Perform basic computer operations, which may vary by environment, including
powering up, inserting disks, moving the cursor, clicking on an icon, using pull-down
menus, executing programs, saving files, retrieving files, printing, ejecting disks, and
powering down.
1.2: Use proper keyboarding techniques for the home row, enter, space bar, tab,
backspace, delete, and insertion-point arrow keys.
P 2: Students will organize and manipulate data.
1.1: Read information from a prepared database.
P 5: Students will navigate and create hyperlinked resources.
1.2: Access hyperlinked sites on an intranet or the Internet.
Why Online?
Using computer integration for this lesson, students are able to learn the fine motor skills
required for computer usage while they are learning about parts of speech. In the first activity,
provided words allow students to recognize and categorize words into nouns, verbs, adjectives,
and adverbs. In the second part of the activity, students are to type their own words in. By
reading the Mad Libs they create, students will begin to recognize the importance of adjectives
and adverbs to add interest to their own writing.
Online Inquiry:
I began this assignment by utilizing various search engines. I used Google, Webcrawler, Bing,
Yahoo, and InstraGrok. I found that I was getting similar results with all the search engines, so
decided to use Google to continue my searches from there. I began my search with educational
online games and gleaned some information from Edutopia about enhancing lessons with
games. I then searched for adjective and adverb online games. I was not happy with any of the
results that this search generated, so I tried to broaden my search with parts of speech online
games. One of the first hits was a game from Funbrain. I was not happy with the game, but
began to look around on the website. As I clicked through links, I found a Reading Arcade. On
this page, there were four Mad Lib activities. Students would choose words from the provided
word bank to create silly stories. I still wanted students to choose their own words and practice
typing, so I made one more search, this time looking for online mad libs. One of the hits
produced by this search was Wacky Web Tales which provided numerous Mad Libs for
students.

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