The Parts of Speech and Sentence Builders for First Grade

The fundamentals of speech are one of the building blocks of a young education.

The language arts are typically divided into the categories of literature and language. Focusing on language skills, this area of study is broken into five strands: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Specific skills make up each of these levels and provide a basis for instructing pupils. A primary skill in the language arts is mastering the parts of speech. One way to reinforce pupils' understanding of the parts of speech is sentence building, requiring pupils to create sentences from pieces.

Nouns

Nouns are persons, places or things. These words form the basis of the subject of sentences. Examples of nouns typical for first-grade students include dog, cat, book, girl, boy and other simple words.

Pronouns

Pronouns are words that replace nouns. Common pronouns for first-grade students include I, you, he, she, it, me, my and other common replacement words.

Verbs

Verbs are the parts of speech that present action or state. Typical for first-grade students are action verbs, such as run, talk, read and jump.

Adjectives

Adjectives are description words that illustrate nouns. Adjectives answer the questions who, which, what kind of and how many. Common adjectives include descriptive words such as big, small, blue and other specific descriptors.

Adverbs

Adverbs are descriptive words that explain verbs, adverbs and adjectives. Adverbs answer the questions how, when, why, where, how much, to what degree and other questions of clarification. Common adverbs for first-graders include descriptors such as very, time clarifications and other simple descriptors.

Sentence Builders

Providing pupils, especially those of primary age, with sentence supports and pieces to help them develop their ability to create sentences. Sentence builders offer pupils either a beginning piece of a sentence upon which they can build or parts to arrange to create a complete sentence. Necessary parts needed for sentence building in first grade include the basic parts of speech, giving pupils a noun and verb and requiring them to supply other essential items and arrange the words appropriately. Giving pupils sentence builders provides them with a base on which to build and enables them to begin writing sentences in a non-intimidating way.

References

• EnglishClub.com: Parts of Grammar