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General Learning Outcomes: General Outcome 2-Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend
and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
Specific Learning Outcomes:
2.3.2 Understand Forms, Elements, and Techniques; Understand techniques and elements
include events, setting and characters when summarizing or retelling oral, print or other media texts
describe the main characters in terms of who they are, their actions in the story and their relations with other characters
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will (be specific)
1. Will learn the definition of a verb
2. Will use verbs in conjunction with everyday nouns
3. Students will review verbs and action words as a part of descriptive language.
4. Students will expand their vocabulary
Inquiry Question: What is the basic structure of narrative? What are the main elements of narrative? How are these
elements meaningful? How are these elements developed?
Guiding Questions: What is a verb? What are some common examples of verbs? How can we use verbs to construct
characters and mental pictures?
ASSESSMENTS
Formative:
Observation: Teacher will watch and listen to see
how students work in discussion groups
Key Questions: Assess students responses to key
questions (see above)
Work Sheet
Summative:
N/A
Review previous lesson by asking the students what a verb is and some examples. (The verb signals an
action, an occurrence, or a state of being)(action word)(a verb tells what a noun is doing or has done)
Also review what a noun is (Person, Place, or Thing)
Assessment of Prior Knowledge: *this will be attained by asking the above questions*
Advance Organizer/Agenda: Introduction via Direct Instruction->Grand Conversation ->Large Group Activity
Transition to Body: Tell students that we will be playing Adjective Charades to reinforce the idea of adjectives and
nouns
Body (_25-30_min.):
Learning Activity:
Extension Activity
Do sentence writing incorporating the verbs used in verb charades. See work sheet. Can always do next class.
Closure ( _2_min.):
I will make sure they know we will be using our new knowledge of verbs to describe characters next class.