Over the past two weeks, I have been using literature to formally introduce parts of speech. To begin, we started with Quick as a Cricket, by Audrey Wood. This book was a great introduction to adjectives and similes. The Bumblebees wrote their own similes based on the book.
Next, we read Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. Not only were we creating lists of adjectives to describe the wild things, we also learned about verbs and nouns. Over the course of a week, we took very boring sentences, (Wild things run.) and added other parts of speech and details to spruce up the sentence and make it more interesting. (Hairy blue wild things run through the forest at night.) We took these sentences and made them into story problems to share with the prekindergarten class.
