Have you ever done some “mad libs”? Is this something you remember fondly from school days – at least more fondly than the usual grammar lessons?<\/p>\n
Personally, I hadn’t heard of mad libs until finding them mentioned in another blog, but apparently they have been widely used to teach children some grammatical terms in a fun way – maybe this is more common in the USA, or maybe I just missed out!<\/p>\n
Anyway, a mad lib is where you choose some randoms words – nouns, adjectives, verbs and so on – and they are inserted into a piece of writing. The end result is usually nonsensical, but funny – and especially so for children I suspect!<\/p>\n
I remember playing games where we each wrote a type of word, folded the piece of paper and passed it on to write another word on someone else’s piece of paper. The final result there was a funny sentence. Mad libs are similar to that game, but you don’t come up with the entire story with your words.<\/p>\n
| A Typical History Test<\/strong> \nBy: Roger Price & Leonard Stern<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n | Instructions: When the Australia<\/strong> rings, unfold your papers and answer the following Victorians<\/strong>.<\/em>1. What general won the Battle of Adelaide<\/strong>.2. Which American river<\/strong> said, “Give me liberty or give me trees<\/strong>“?3. Who was the first president of the United animals<\/strong> of New Zealand<\/strong>?4. Why did Benjamin Franklin fly a\/an bird<\/strong> during a thunderstorm?5. Who made the first beautiful<\/strong> flag?Answers to Test:<\/em>1. Jackson<\/strong>2. Mel Gibson<\/strong>, when he was executed by Russell Crowe<\/strong> for riding<\/strong>.3. Ian Thorpe<\/strong>4. He was discovering koalas<\/strong>.5. Sigrid Thornton<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Finding a fun way to teach children the different types of words (nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc) is important for them to be able to construct good sentences and stories – but it isn’t always a fun topic to study!<\/p>\n Mad libs are certainly light-hearted but do require some knowledge of word types to work. The mad libs site includes definitions of the word types, too, to help children learn as the select words.<\/p>\n Do you think this is a useful tool in teaching children what a noun\/verb\/adjective\/etc is? I’ll be letting my children have a go at these stories and see what they think of them. If I remember, I may even ask their teachers how they view this from an educational point of view.<\/p>\n Use your words wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever done some “mad libs”? Is this something you remember fondly from school days – at least more fondly than the usual grammar lessons? Personally, I hadn’t heard of mad libs until finding them mentioned in another blog, but apparently they have been widely used to teach children some grammatical terms in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[335,169,338,125,332,166,333,336,334],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","tag-adjectives","tag-fun","tag-game","tag-grammar","tag-mad-libs","tag-nouns","tag-teach","tag-verbs","tag-word-types"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t |