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APPLY IT NOW Remind students that adjectives describe nouns and that nouns name people, places, or things. While the words we are focusing on can function as either nouns or adjectives, remind students that they are identifying parts of speech only as they function in this particular sentence. As a class, identify the adjectives and nouns in the sentence. Students should demonstrate the ability to identify adjectives and nouns.
Note which students had difficulty identifying words that can be used as nouns and adjectives. Assign Practice Book page 19 for further practice.
TEACHING OPTIONS
WRITING CONNECTION
Use pages 230–231 of the Writing portion of the book.
the skies.
4. Communication networks are dependent on satellites. 5. The astronomers looked at the top of the picture and found a cluster of stars they had never seen before.
6. We looked at an enlarged picture of the surface of Mars in brilliant color. Mars’s surface has features much like the earth and our moon. Will there be an immigrant colony on Mars in this century? Scientists are constantly searching for life beyond our planet.
Mars
Currently, robots transmit weather reports from Mars. The reports state that climate changes on Mars might someday allow for life to flourish.
EXERCISE 3 Write sentences using these words as nouns and as adjectives. winter night plant
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Telescope
We made finger puppets with the kindergarten class. Underline the word finger in each sentence. Ask a volunteer to tell whether finger is a noun or an adjective in the first sentence and to explain why. Write noun (names a thing, finger) after the sentence. Repeat with the second sentence and write adjective (describes the noun puppets). Direct students to write a pair of original sentences and label them as you labeled those on the board. Invite volunteers to share their sentences, identifying the noun or the adjective in each.
Cooperative Learning
I wonder if we will ever encounter alien life from other planets.
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I cut my finger on a sheet of paper.
Visual Distribute magazine or newspaper articles. Challenge students to circle as many adjectives as they can find. Have students decide which of those adjectives can be used as nouns and write them on the board. Keep this list on the board for students to refer to in the Cooperative Learning Teaching Option.
1. A satellite can give astronomers information about the planetary system. 2. It is an important source of information for space exploration. 3. In the 1960s and 1970s, radio telescopes were used to observe
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Write the following sentences on the board:
Meeting Individual Needs
EXERCISE 2 Tell whether each italicized word is a noun or an adjective. If the word in italics is a noun, write a sentence using it as an adjective. If the word is an adjective, use it as a noun.
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APPLY IT NOW Identify the adjectives in the following sentence. Then create a new sentence, using
Have pairs of students work together. Direct one student to write four sentences using four different nouns that can also be used as adjectives. Direct the other student to write four sentences using four different adjectives that can also be used as nouns. Tell students to underline the four words. When they have finished, have them exchange papers and write four sentences using the underlined words as adjectives if they were used as nouns and as nouns if they were used as adjectives.
the adjectives as nouns.
Antique solar system model
William and Evan peer at the evening stars through an antique telescope. Nouns
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