Adjectives Game Description

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Literacy Learning Station 2: Adjectives Game

Station Name: Adjectives Game

Station Cover Snapshot:

Station Users:

The adjectives game has been created for a Year 1 class, which means

that it is appropriate for students aged 5 to 6 years old. The students are

required to have a solid understanding in some areas of grammar before

they are able to use the adjectives game learning station.

The users of the learning station are required to know what adjectives and

nouns are, and when each are used. Students must know that adjectives

are used to describe nouns. It is also important have had some instruction

in being able to separate adjectives and nouns in a group of words. It is

not necessary for the students to have a great understanding of the

differences or for them to be able to separate the words easily.

It is also necessary for the station users to have good reading skills. The

students have to be able to read both the sentences and the group of

words. Without good reading skills the users will not be able to use the

station independently and they will not be able to get the full learning


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experience of the literacy station.

Station Description:

The adjectives game learning station is made up of five sentences and a

group of eighteen words. The five sentences are all missing one word the

adjective of the sentence. The missing word is represented in the

sentence by a blank line. This must be explained to the students as where

there is a word missing and where they should place a word from the

group of words.

All of the components of the adjective game learning station have been

made durable and hard wearing so that is can be used time and again

without being damaged. All of the components of the adjectives game can

be stored in a small plastic zip lock bag so that they are not lost and can

be stored easily.

There are no additional resources that are required for the students to use

the learning station. All the students need is the components of the

station in the zip lock bag and either a desk or a small amount of floor

space to lay out the components when playing the game.

Instructional Goals:

The children using the station will be able to practice separating a group

of words into categories of adjectives and nouns. This will help the

students in learning the differences between the two and see how

different the words are.

The students are exposed to simple sentences that require the addition of

an adjective and they try to find out which word belongs in the sentence.The students are able to experiment with the different words in the word

group and see that putting a noun into the blank space of the sentence

stops the sentence from making sense. Reading out the sentences that no

longer make sense helps the students to understand how important

adjectives are.

How The Station Will Be Used:

The students read the sentences one at a time and try to think of a word


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that would fit into the blank in the sentence. The students then look at the

group of words and try to decide which of the words would best fit into the

sentence so that the sentence makes complete sense.

The students repeat this theory for each of the five sentences. There willbe many words left over. It may sometimes be helpful for the students to

read all of the sentences and then start selecting words from the group.

All of the words left over at the end of the game will be nouns.

Students with good reading skills will be able to work on the station

independently and they will not require the help of the teacher. Once they

have completed the game, the students should then have their work

checked by the classroom teacher or a teachers assistant.

Students with poorer reading skills will require some help with the game,

as they are required to read the sentences and the word group. The

teacher will have to assist these students in reading the sentences.

Assessment Strategies:

After the students have completed the sentences and believe they make

sense, they should have their work looked at by the classroom teacher or

a teaching assistant. When the teacher looks at the work, they need to

make sure the sentences make sense and that the student has put an

adjective into the sentence.

Once the sentences are correct, the teacher should then take a

photograph of the students work. This photograph should then be given to

the student to keep with their work so that they can refer to it if they need

to.

Questioning is another informal method of assessment that can be used to

determine if the student has learned anything from participating in the

adjectives game.

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