Interjections
Welcome to the feelings desk. Today Izzy shows you the words that gasp, cheer, and shout.
Preview how it deepens, Grades 1 through 3.
Build one yourself.
Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.
1 · the feeling word
2 · the sentence it stands apart from
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play Sentence Surgeon →Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play Garbage Sentences →An interjection stands apart.
Wow is a feeling word, but here it is run straight into the sentence with nothing to set it apart.
Set the boxed interjection apart with an exclamation point (strong) or a comma (mild), and the sentence still stands on its own.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Interjections runs the length of the Factory, Grades 1 through 3. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.