Adverb Basics

Adverbs—they're anything but basic! Introduce your students to a misunderstood part of speech with this adverb lesson plan. Students will learn to identify the different ways adverbs are used before writing their own descriptive sentences.

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify and use adverbs as modifiers to express time, place, manner, degree, and frequency.

Introduction

(5 minutes)

Write a sentence on the board with no modifiers (e.g. The kid walks.)
Ask a student to come act out the sentence.
Add an adverb to the sentence (e.g. The kid walks quickly), and have the student act it out again.
Change the adverb and, once more, have the student act it out.
Underline the adverb in the sentence and label it as an adverb.
Tell students that today we are going to learn about adverbs.

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Adverb Basics

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