Grammar Game for Sports Fans
This idea comes from Christine. She’s got boys who are crazy about football. You might try something similar with any interest your child has. Find the appropriate literature (video game reviews, ballet magazine, quilting manual, cookbook). Thanks Christine!
Yesterday I took out the real sports page and asked my boys to each pick an article. My younger boy picked some of the smaller recap articles. I had them circle the verbs that they found. Then I asked them how many times “to be” verbs were used (almost never). They were all action words. Then we looked at the words like “upend.” How is that better than “beat”? We talked about the word pictures that the verbs evoked. What picture did they get in their head from “edged” or “squashed,” and so on. They enjoyed it. We may do the same thing with adjectives another week or use of quotations. Just thought I would share our fun grammar.