Lesson Plan
Diagramming Sentences
Sentences can be surprisingly complex. Enhance your students' reading and writing skills with this comprehensive lesson on diagramming sentences and identifying parts of speech.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the following parts of speech within a sentence: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, and conjunction.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- List some different parts of speech (noun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, and conjunction) on the board. Write an example next to each one.
- Briefly review the definition of each part of speech. A noun refers to a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. An adjective describes the state of a noun. A verb refers to an action. An adverb describes how a verb is performed. A preposition refers to location, either in space or time. A conjunction connects words and phrases.
- Review the forms of the verb "be" (am, is, are, was, and were), then write them down on the board as well.