Recently I have been working on reading skills with my daughter. Her reading is improving slowly but surely. Her brother being ten years older is of course working on a much higher level. It is difficult at times to work with them both at the same time but this week I had a light bulb moment. (I love those!)
I wrote a few mad lib stories. These are little stories just a paragraph or two in length. Leave out a couple words from each sentence. Without reading the story to them I asked them for the specific types of words I had omitted such as noun, adjective, verb etc.
What a great way to learn the parts of speech. My daughter quickly caught on to ''a noun is a person, place or thing.'' and ''an adverb is how you do an action'' or as she said ''It is how you verb!"
The three of us had a great time laughing at how silly the stories ended up and I love how it was a great tool for learning as well.
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