Lesson Plan
Parts of Speech that Describe
Support your EL students in understanding and identifying parts of speech such as adverbs and adjectives in a text. This lesson plan can also support the lesson Varsity Parts of Speech Review.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to name and use articles, prepositions, adverbs, and superlative adjectives.
Language
Students will be able to comprehend a fiction text with adjectives and adverbs using word banks.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Show students an item, like a ball. Pass it around and give them a moment to look at it and feel it.
- Write a noun on the board to label the item (e.g., "ball"). Give students a moment to talk about what they noticed with a partner. Then, ask students to call out words that describe it (e.g., round, squishy, red). Record their answers on the board.
- Perform an action with the item (e.g., roll or bounce the ball). Write a verb on the board to describe the action. Give students another moment to talk with a partner. Then, ask students to describe the action (e.g., slowly, softly, on the floor). Record their answers on the board.
- Explain that the words that the students used to describe the ball and its action are parts of speech. Provide a student-friendly definition (e.g., "categories of words that are used to make a sentence") and then label the parts of speech on the board (e.g., "noun," "verb," "adjective," "adverb").
- Tell students that they will be studying two parts of speech that focus on description, adjectives and adverbs.