Rationale: Just as an artist paints an image with his PAINTBRUSH, adjectives paint an image in your mind, by describing nouns. For esample, is I say "DOG", who knows what image will pop into your head. But if I say "Small Brown Fat Dog", I have described which dog I was talking about, and you have a better picture in your head.
WARNING (Tip of the Day): Adjectives are the only part of speech that don't have their own page. You find them by hitting an Icon (aka category) key, and the Paintbrush (or one of it's forms with +er or +est with it). For instance, the word LITTLE is DICE+PAINTBRUSH (dice are little).
Rationale: Old Mother Hubbard (noun) went to her CUPBOARD (noun) to get her poor dog a BONE (noun). You will also notice there is an icon right next to it with more than one item in her cupboard. This is used to represent plural nouns!
Definition: A noun is a person, place, or thing!
Rationale: Verbs are actions that Herb the Verb (also called Action Man) can do! They are always GREEN!
Pronouns are very important! Not only are the used frequently, but they are what I like to call shortcut keys! Any time you can find a phrase or sentence in less hits, that is a GOOD thing. Pronoun Phrases only take 2 icons, rather than 4 to say the same thing. For instance, if you wanted to say "I WANT", you could hit I 2 times, and then WANTED, then the verb (Action Man, or Herb the Verb). That is 4 hits. You can simply say it by hitting the I one time, and the WANTED man. Only 2 hits. Works for questions the same way. Insert NOT into the middle, and you have negative pronoun statements or questions.
Tips of the Day: Since pronouns are used so often, we changed our color to my child's favorite color. This was not easy, getting each one changed, but it is done. Another tip: Make the kids feel like they are sort of cheating, or getting away with something (they are, only hitting 2 keys instead of 4, LOL). This will get them using them more and more usually, therefore making their communication quicker!
