By the upper grades, students are pretty familiar with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This rich, engaging varsity-level review incorporates the lesser-studied parts of speech: articles, prepositions, adverbs, and superlative adjectives.
Students will be able to name and use articles, prepositions, adverbs, and superlative adjectives.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
EL adjustments
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Ask the class: What kind of work do you think you might want to do when you get older? What kind of impact do you want to have? Facilitate a brief discussion, sharing student ideas in small groups or as a class.
Explain that just as we have jobs that can impact our community, words have jobs that impact a sentence and ideas.
Beginning
Provide a bilingual word bank of various jobs.
Define the word "impact" in English and in students' home languages (L1).
Intermediate
Provide sentence stems for student discussion (e.g., "When I get older, I'd like to be...").