Coert Voorhees

Using personification, strong characterization, and a clear storyline, the main requirement was that the story effectively convey the purpose of the chosen part of speech.An adverb as a definition was abstract, but an adverb as the protagonist of a story suddenly became bossy, became personified, became memorable. The students weren’t thinking about parts of speech anymore; they were thinking about characters. It helps kids connect with the parts of speech on a human level. I hope they’ll be so entertained that they’ll forget they were supposed to hate grammar.