Parts of Speech Review Quiz
6th - 8th Grade
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Parts of Speech Review Quiz
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6th - 8th Grade
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This Parts of Speech Review Quiz targets middle school English language arts, specifically appropriate for grades 6-8. The quiz comprehensively assesses students' understanding of the eight parts of speech through identification exercises, functional analysis, and application tasks. Students must demonstrate mastery of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections by identifying these elements within sentence contexts. The quiz progresses from basic word identification to more complex concepts such as intensive pronouns, coordinating conjunctions, prepositional phrases, and verb phrase structure. Students need solid foundational knowledge of grammatical terminology, the ability to analyze word function within sentences rather than just memorizing definitions, and understanding of how adverbs and adjectives answer specific questions to modify other words. The assessment also requires students to distinguish between helping verbs and main verbs, recognize prepositional phrases as units, and understand that words can function as different parts of speech depending on their role in a sentence. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying middle school grammar and parts of speech. The assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a comprehensive review tool before summative assessments, a diagnostic instrument to identify specific areas where students need additional support, or as structured practice following direct instruction on grammatical concepts. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, assign it as independent homework to reinforce classroom learning, or use it as a formative assessment to guide future lesson planning. The varied question formats, from straightforward identification to more nuanced analysis of word function, make this quiz particularly valuable for differentiated instruction and spiral review throughout the grammar unit. This assessment aligns with Common Core State Standards L.6.1, L.7.1, and L.8.1, which require students to demonstrate command of standard English grammar and usage, including understanding how words function as different parts of speech in various contexts.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What part of speech is the highlighted word?
My sister will specialize in children's medicine after she finishes medical school.
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What part of speech is the highlighted word in this sentence?
There is an increasing need for well trained female engineers.
Tags
CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What part of speech is the highlighted word?
The Artic region has extremely cold winters.
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What part of speech will answer these three questions:
What kind?
Which one?
How many?
Tags
CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What part of speech will answer these four questions:
How?
When?
Where?
Why? or To What Extent?
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Choose the intensive pronoun in the sentence:
We ourselves planned the dance routine that our team performed for you this evening.
Tags
CCSS.L.2.1C
CCSS.L.2.1D
CCSS.L.3.1A
CCSS.L.6.1B
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Choose the coordinating conjunction in the sentence.
I wanted to stay home because I was tired, but my mom made me go to school.
Tags
CCSS.L.1.1G
CCSS.L.3.1H
CCSS.L.5.1A
CCSS.L.5.1E
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