

Had more fun-the words, or the kids? What makes you think so?" What's wrong in the classroom when the kids return? 10. Which nouns were hiding from which verbs? Why? 9. 7.Įxplain the difference between a strong and a weak verb. Which team had capitalized letters? Why? Find three in your classroom. How did they realize their mistake? Then what did they do? 6.

4.Īt first, how did the words pair up? Why didn't that work? 5.

In this story, why were the nouns and verbs left alone? 3.ĭescribe field day at your school. Make a list of five nouns and five verbs in your own classroom. On her website, author Robin Pulver provides some goodĭiscussion questions and teacher tips to accompany using this book in Lesson Ideas for Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Wright announces that it's Field Day and the kids head outside. In the first spread (which is also the first spread in the book), the students are shown searching the room for nouns and verbs. While all the pagesĪre this vividly colored and 'high energy', most pages are moreĬhaotic/full than this one and have about double the text.

Level: Grade 1-4 Grade Level Equivalent: 1.6 Lexile Measure: 450īelow are sample spreads from inside Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day. Respective words (nouns saying nouns, verbs saying verbs). We agree with School Library Journal, who said:Įnergetic verbs that strut across the pages, this book is where theīubbles by the little noun and verb characters, as they are full of (Booklist) The brightly colored, super energetic illustrations sure do add a lot of fun! That teaches them this lesson as well! TheĬoncept is unquestionably quite silly, but students willĭefinitely "realize that sentences need both nouns and verbs in order Then, when students return to the class, they find a crazy letter After dividing up on teams, the nouns and verbs soon realize that they must work together to get anything done. The fun so they create their own field day. About Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day: Mr.Ī Field Day outside, and the nouns and verbs don't want to miss out on
