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ADJECTIVES
Analyses
| Material: | Grammar box. |
| Various objects already familiar to the children. | |
| New objects. |
The material for word analysis consists of small cards for articles (tan), nouns (black) and adjectives (brown). There is one box with three compartments, each section marked with a card bearing the respective title: article, noun, adjective. At the front of the box is a space for other cards containing printed sentences to be analyzed.
Descriptive Adjectives
The child is to read the sentences, find the objects described in them, and finally build the sentences with his cards as follows: suppose the card reads:
| il colore verde | the green color |
| il colore turchino | the blue color |
| il colore rosso | the red color |
The child finds the three colored tablets used in the familiar exercise of the "Children's House" for the education of the sense of color. He places these tablets on his table. Then he builds the phrases out of his word cards: