English Scatter Collage | Getting to Know You Activity

Adjectives, nouns and verbs about themselves become a name collage in this getting-to-know-you activity: students list words, check them with a partner, then scatter them around their name in colour-coded groups.
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

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This resource is an English Scatter Collage Getting to Know You Activity.

Students will begin by filling in the boxes at the top of the page for adjectives, verbs and nouns relating to themselves.

There are directions for students to follow at the bottom of the page to allow them to get to know their classmates and then create their collage.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Sort self-descriptive words into adjectives, nouns and verbs

  • Check a partner's word lists for the correct part of speech

Teaching tips

  • The directions assign a colour to each word type (blue, orange and green), so have markers in those three colours on hand.

Skills covered

  • Parts of speech — generating adjectives, nouns and verbs that describe themselves

  • Peer checking — reviewing a classmate's lists for accuracy

  • Visual self-expression — arranging words and pictures into a personal collage

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