Colin M Drysdale Amazing Animals Basic Word Types - Classroom Edition

This is a classroom edition of Amazing Animals Basic Word Types. It has been specifically designed and formatted to allow teachers to easily create handouts from its contents for use primary classrooms. These handouts can be used to introduce students to the different types of words by getting them to draw animals based on short, funny descriptions. Through these drawings, and the tasks that accompany them, your students will learn about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, and how they work together to make sentences and bring writing to life. It contains:1. An introduction to each of the five basic word types (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs), what they are and how they relate to different aspects of a drawing.2. Fifteen double-page spreads each featuring a different animal. These are divided into five basic word types. Each double-page spread consists of a short, amusing and child-friendly descriptions of the animal on one page and space for your students to draw the animal based on this description on the other. Below the space where the animal is drawn, your students are asked to list all the examples of a specific word type from the description and answer a question based on it. This helps ensure that they understand the descriptions they are reading.3. The opportunity for your students to learn to identify the different word types in the description, using a ‘see one, do one’ based approach. Specifically, in the first two animal descriptions f...