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This lesson is an active way to either see how much your students already know about their parts of speech, or to assess their learning. It can be a great review activity before a test.

Make signs on construction paper that are labeled with each part of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, interjection, conjunction, adjective, adverb, and preposition). Post each sign on a different part of your classroom walls.

Take 3x5 cards and on each card (one for each student) write a word or phrase that can be only one part of speech. Then take another set of cards and write sentences with one word underlined. It is best when you have an even number of each part of speech. For example, in a class set of 32, make 4 cards for each part of speech.

Give each student one card and ask him/her to stand under the appropriate sign. Students hold the cards in front of them so that you can quickly walk around and check to be sure that everyone is in the correct place. If more than four students are standing under a sign, encourage them to help each other out and figure out who doesn't belong there.

Collect the cards and either pass them out again, or use the next set. I like to have them stand under the signs three-four times.

You may have as many class sets as you like.

At the end, you'll have a sense of who is still really struggling with his/her parts of speech.

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