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Activity 6 Mad Libs

Dean Zeller CS10051 Fall, 2007 Objective Readings The student will participate in two Mad Libs activities. Mad Libs books Mad Libs (http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/) Mad Libs (http://madlibs.org/) Wacky Web Tales (http://www.eduplace.com/tales/) Crazy Libs (http://www.rinkworks.com/crazylibs/) Tuesday, October 23rd 5 points

Background: Mad Libs and Elementary Reading Education Mad Lib is an activity aimed at elementary school reading levels. It helps students to identify parts of speech within a sentence. This activity requires two people a writer and an entry selector. First, the writer asks for values for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and exclamations, filling in missing values as defined by the mad lib story. Then the completed story is read aloud, using the entries in place of the blanks. The enjoyment of the activity rests in recognizing the original story, but using the entries supplied. The result is a somewhat absurd story. Instructions 1. Choose a partner. (Classmate, friend, sibling, child, etc) 2. Complete one Mad-Lib activity, playing the role of the writer. 3. Complete the other Mad-Lib activity, providing the entries. 4. Write both names on the activity sheet Grading You will be graded on the following criteria: Accuracy Correctly completing the Mad Lib activities Extra Credit Find and complete other Mad Lib stories Write and complete your own Mad Lib story. Alternate Assignment Word process your own Mad Lib, similar to the examples.

Grammar Tutorial Nouns


A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing. A noun that names only one person, place, or thing is called a singular noun. A noun that names more than one person, a place, or a thing is called a plural noun. Person dentists (plural) sister (singular) Julio (singular) Place zoo (singular) towns (plural) Thing fan (singular) notebook (singular) buses (plural)

New York (singular) pears (plural)

children (plural) beaches (plural)

Adjectives An adjective is a word that describes a noun. An adjective can tell what kind or how many. What Kind We have a large dog. Our dog has tiny, brown spots. Verbs

How Many Our dog has five puppies. Many dogs love children.

A verb is a word that can show action. A present tense verb shows action that is happening now. A past tense verb shows action that has already happened. A future tense verb shows action that will happen. Present Tense Bats hunt at night. Past Tense Future Tense The bats will fly later.

The bats hunted last night. The bats will hunt tonight.

The bats fly quickly. The bats flew overhead. Adverbs An adverb is a word that describes a verb. An adverb can tell how, when, or where. How I read books quickly. When I read books often.

Where I keep my books upstairs.

I read newspapers slowly. I always read the newspaper. I buy my newspaper there. Exclamations An exclamation can be a word, a phrase, or a sentence that shows strong feeling. It is followed by an exclamation point. Word Wow! Phrase Oh, no! Sentence What a terrific song!

Yippee! No way! We won the championship!

Father Goose Rhymes


Old Mother Hubbard went to the ___________
(noun)

To get her ___________ ___________a bone.


(adjective) (noun)

When she got there, the ___________ was ___________


(noun) (adjective)

And so her ___________ dog had none.


(adjective)

Jack and Jill went up the ___________


(noun)

To fetch a/an ___________ of ___________.


(a container) (a liquid)

Jack fell down and broke his ___________,


(noun)

And Jill came tumbling after.

There was a/an ___________ woman


(adjective)

Who ___________ in a shoe.


(verb-past tense)

She had so many ___________,


(plural noun)

She didnt know what to do.


(Father Goose Rhymes, from Sooper Dooper Mad Libs, by Roger Price and Leonard Stern, http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html)

Copernicus
Four hundred years ago people knew little about our ___________ universe. They thought that the Earth was the
(adjective)

center of the entire ___________ and that the sun and all of the
(noun)

___________ revolved around it. But then a/an ___________


(plural noun) (nationality)

named Copernicus discovered the truth: the earth revolves around the ___________ ___________ times a year.
(something round) (a number)

Copernicus, whose last name was ___________, was born


(a last name)

in Warsaw, and he used one of the first ___________


(adjective)

telescopes, which was invented by ___________. This primitive


(person in room)

telescopes was little more than two pieces of ___________


(food)

stuck on each end of a/an ___________. In 1600, an Italian


(noun)

___________ named Galileo expanded Copernicus___________


(occupation) (adjective)

theories, but during the Inquisition in Italy he was ___________


(adverb)

arrested. After ___________ for six months in jail, Galileo was


(verb ending in -ing)

forced to ___________.
(verb)
(Copernicus, from Mad Libs From Outer Space, by Roger Price and Leonard Stern, http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html)

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