Oct
31
Yesterday our ELA teacher introduced me to the wonder of Mad Libs. These are exercises where you create a list of words that include nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and then you plug them into a story that was previously written by someone else. As our teacher patiently explained to me, these are great exercises for the kids to work with adjectives, adverbs, etc and recognize their place in a sentence since, if they fill a noun in where they should fill in a verb, the story won’t make sense.
At her urging, I dug up a number of Mad Lib sites that seem to have decent clean stories for the kids to use. There’s plenty of sites out there with tacky and really questionable stories that you’ll want to avoid with your class, but these seem to be okay. Of course, double check what I’ve found. I’ve been known to make mistakes.
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Kids love Mad Libs because they can be silly, silly, silly. I like them, because they reinforce parts of speech. I wasn’t aware these websites. Thanks for the tip.