Sorting Cards for Parts of Speech

(TESOL Materials--Parts of Speech)

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I was recently working with a group of 5th graders who had difficulty with the labels for parts of speech--specifically nouns, verbs and adjectives, so I made these cards to help them.
The activity works in two stages. First, the students are given the cards, and sort them into noun, verb and adjective.  
Secondly, the students are given the sentence frame: The [adjective] [noun] [verb] and have to put the cards into the slots to make sentences.  (e.g. The old teacher runs).

Some of the nouns are inanimate objects (e.g. chair, pencil, hotdog) and so the idea is that the students will have fun imagining anthropomorphized versions of these objects performing the action verb (e.g. The angry hotdog runs.)  These sentences can then be illustrated for the students using AI.
While running the activity, I found that for some groups it is useful to have them use the cards to make sentences first, and then this helps them learn the categories, so then I do sorting at the end.

Noun person, place, thing	Verb action
Adjective describe
sad	hotdog
crazy	frog
red	teacher
big	boy
smelly	flower
old	chair
happy	turtle
slow	lion
good	pencil
bad	baby
swims	eats
sleeps	cries
runs	climbs
reads	writes
plays	sings

The _____________________ _____________________ 

adjective   noun

__________________

verb