Literacy Activity

Students who have added their pieces, well done!  However, there are some punctuation marks missing and spelling errors. Keep writing, the drafting and publishing process is continuous.

Pronouns and you

Some of you have explored the game link for pronouns and nouns. Here is table reminding you of the categories for pronouns.

Personal- I, you, its, ours, and others	Refers to people or things	I saw her take a book to them
Relative- who, which, that	Introduces certain NOUN CLAUSES and ADJECTIVE CLAUSES	The book that I lost was valuable
INTERROGATIVE- which, who, whose, and others	Introduces a question	Who called?
Demonstrative- this, that, these, those	Points out the ANTECEDENT	Whose books are these?
REFLECTIVE OR INTENSIVE- myself, themselves ,and other-self or selves words	Reflects to the antecedent; intensifies the antecedent	They claim to support themselves, I myself doubt it.
RECIPROCAL- each other, one another	Refers to individual parts of a plural antecedent	We respect each other.
INDEFINITE- all, anyone, each and others	Refers to nonpersons or things	Everyone is welcome here

Book Report

A number of you have a book report to write each month for your Literacy Portfolio. Here is an outline of how you can easily write your one page book reports.

http://www.abcteach.com/free/b/bookreport_fun_lines1a.pdf  This link have the specific questions that you will answer when writing your report.

Welcome

It is almost the middle of the month and we finally can communicate using the blog. Last week we looked at nouns and pronouns. Does anybody still has questions from the lesson taught? Leave a comment and I will address it as soon as possible.

This is a link to a fun game on nouns and pronouns. http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=2&Unit=3&Topic=Nouns+and+Pronouns

Soon there will be posts related to Literature. Enjoy!