Lesson Plan
Speaking and Writing with Prepositional Phrases
Do your students know they speak and write with prepositional phrases? Use this lesson plan to explicitly teach spoken and written prepositional phrases!
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to use prepositional phrases accurately in both their speaking and writing.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell students that they will be learning about prepositional phrases and why they are important.
- Explain you are going to show them examples that illustrate why prepositional phrases are so important.
- Choose a student and hand them an object (such as a book or a ruler).
- Without pointing, ask the student to, "Put the object there." (If the student asks, "Where?" just repeat your request.)
- Choose another student, and ask them to walk.
- Ask your class, "Why were these tasks confusing?"
- Explain that there was information missing from your requests. The missing information is called a prepositional phrase.
- Tell students that we use prepositional phrases in both our speaking and writing.