Replacement Therapy

Line up five students in front of the class. Each student has responsibility for a single part of speech. A suitable sequence would be:

Article ...Noun ...Verb ...(leave a gap) ...Pronoun ...Verb

The first three children should construct sentences by, one at a time, stating a word in accordance with their assigned part of speech. It is helpful if they hold the position for each grammime in front of themselves.

The man walked

The birds fly

A fish swims

The fourth and fifth children are asked to replace the first two children with a suitable pronoun and to repeat the verb.

The man walked ...He walked

The birds fly ... They fly

A fish swims ... It swims

 

As new parts of speech are learned, this activity can be extended to include adjectives and adverbs.

 

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