Introduce nouns, explaining the difference between a noun and a proper noun, predicate nouns and appositives. Pronouns also need to be addressed, including the different cases and their appropriate use: objective, nominative and possessive. You will also teach students that pronoun-antecedent agreement specifies that pronouns agree with their antecedents in number, person and gender.
You must introduce the different kinds of verbs to students, starting with those that agree with the subject in person and number and verbs that take an object. Then move on to teaching about verbs that link with predicate nouns and adjectives, giving plenty of examples and practice. You also need to address consistency in verb tense and both regular and irregular verb forms, explaining how they differ in construction. Your lessons must include the correct use of both simple and perfect tenses, leading to the proper use of active and passive voice as well as the subjective mood. Set practice examples for homework.
Teach the correct comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, predicate adjectives and adjective clauses, including phrases used in common speech and written text. You must teach the difference between comparative and superlative forms of adverbs, conjunctive adverbs and adverbial phrases. Multiple-choice exercises for homework will help students differentiate between adverbs and adjectives and their appropriate uses.
The different types of conjunctions must be taught, differentiating between coordinating, correlative and subordinating conjunctions and their function to combine sentences and sentence elements. The correct use of interjections is an important part of teaching basic parts of speech, and you must teach students to recognize interjections and how to use them. You will also teach students about prepositions and how to recognize different propositions as adjective or adverb modifiers. You will teach them how these are correctly placed within sentences, providing examples as you go.