Three short tasks make up this 3-page 3rd grade grammar review. Students sort a word bank of cheetah, run, spotted, fast, jungle, climb, tall, and monkey into nouns, verbs, and adjectives. They change mouse and child into irregular plurals, then complete a past, present, and future chart for jump, walk, and play. It covers L.3.1.a, L.3.1.b, and L.3.1.e. An answers page on page 3 covers the sort, both plurals, and the tense chart.
L.3.1.a
“Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.”
Parts of Speech Safari, where students decide whether words like spotted and climb name a thing, show an action, or describe.
L.3.1.b
“Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.”
Plural Potion Magic, with mouse to mice and child to children.
L.3.1.e
“Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.”
The Time Traveling Verbs chart, from jumped to will play.
Students sort eight safari words into a table with three groups: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives.
Students write the plural of mouse in "The three tiny ________ ran across the floor." and the plural of child in a sentence about playing on the swings.
A chart gives jumped, walk, and will play. Students fill in the missing past, present, and future forms in each row.
Spiral review
Give it the week before a grammar check. The three tasks take about 15 minutes and show which skill needs another lesson.
Word card sort
Put the eight safari words on cards for a small group. Watch fast, because some students call it a verb when they picture a cheetah running fast.
Early finishers
Add three rows to the Time Traveling Verbs chart with irregular verbs like run and eat. They show whether students know that not every past tense ends in -ed.
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