Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.20.A*
use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
verbs (irregular verbs and active voice);
collective nouns (e.g., class, public);
adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including origins: French windows, American cars) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., good, better, best);
adverbs (e.g., frequency: usually, sometimes; intensity: almost, a lot);
prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details;
indefinite pronouns (e.g., all, both, nothing, anything);
subordinating conjunctions (e.g., while, because, although, if); and
transitional words (e.g., also, therefore);
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(ii) past tense of irregular verbs;
(iii) collective nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) conjunctive adverbs;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
(vii) pronouns, including indefinite;
(viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
(ix) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
(x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
5th Grade Writing - Parts of Speech - Mixed Lesson
Parts of Speech
Words are classified into parts of speech based on their functions in a sentence.
Nouns
words that namepersons, places, things, animals, or ideas
Nouns can serve as the subjects of sentences or as the objects of verbs or prepositions in sentences.
Example:
Example:
Example:
Nouns change form based on whether they are singular or plural.
Example:
pencils (plural)
Nouns can be common or proper.
Example:
Fido (proper)
Nouns can be concrete, abstract, or collective.
Example:
honesty, beauty, love (abstract)
convoy, colony, team (collective)
Verbs
action or state of being words
Verbs change form based on tense.
Example:
She loved you. (past)
She will love you. (future)
Verbs change form to agree with subjects of sentences.
Singular subjects agree with singular forms of verbs.
Plural subjects agree with plural forms of verbs.
Example:
They are happy. (plural)
Verbs are the central elements of the predicates of sentences.
Example:
Pronouns
words that fill in for nouns
Personal pronouns act as either subjects or objects in sentences.
5th Grade Writing - Parts of Speech - Mixed Lesson