Today when I met with the two 5th Grade students that I am tutoring, we continued on our journey to understand the function of interjections in writing and in our speech.
After doing a bit of research on the Internet, I realized that emoji are "emoticons." Check out this chart that attempts to describe the feelings shown with the emoji.
The definition of emoticons is:
A pictorial representation of a facial expression to express a person's feelings or mood, or as a time-saving method.
So hopefully you can see the connection between interjections in speech and writing ... and emoticons.
So I decided to make a series of cards showing different emoji characters and have my student connect it to an interjection.
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😓 = Oh no!
Then we used that interjection in dialogue.
"Oh no! My mother is going to be so angry when she see this broken dish."
Lastly, we wrote a sentence that might be in a narrative writing.
Oh no! The teacher saw me pass that note to Ali.
I was trying to make connections between ways we use interjections.
Yippee! I believe they understood. 😊
Smiles,
Deborah
The definition of emoticons is:
A pictorial representation of a facial expression to express a person's feelings or mood, or as a time-saving method.
So I decided to make a series of cards showing different emoji characters and have my student connect it to an interjection.
Then we used that interjection in dialogue.
"Oh no! My mother is going to be so angry when she see this broken dish."
Lastly, we wrote a sentence that might be in a narrative writing.
Oh no! The teacher saw me pass that note to Ali.
I was trying to make connections between ways we use interjections.
Yippee! I believe they understood. 😊
Smiles,
Deborah
