Lesson Plan
Discovering Nonfiction Details
Give your ELs concrete experience with adverbs and adverbial phrases as a tool to discover details in nonfiction texts. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the Hey! What's the Big Idea? lesson.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to identify the main idea of a nonfiction text.
Language
Students will be able to explain supporting details with adverbial phrases using a web graphic organizer.
Introduction
(4 minutes)- Ask students to share their knowledge of verbs by talking to a partner about what a verb is.
- Invite a few students to share their conversation and record their responses. Confirm the definition of a verb and provide more examples (e.g., "run," "walk," "smile," "create," "play").
- Ask students if they know what type of speech modifies, or describes verbs. Guide students to discover that adverbs are words that modify verbs.
- Tell your learners that today they will learn to identify adverbs and adverbial phrases which give us supporting details in nonfiction texts.