Lesson Plan (Primary)

Lesson title: Adverbs and Word Study Date: 26/8/19 Year level: 6
Topic: Grammar and Spelling Duration of lesson: 90 mins
Learning areas Strands & sub-strands Content descriptors
Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of
Links to the
verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases (VCELA351)
Australian English
Writing Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words,
Curriculum:
prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words,
including technical words and words adopted from other languages (VCELA354)
Lesson rationale: Weekly spelling introduction and grammar focus based on areas needed for improvement from student’s writing.
Students background knowledge: Teacher focus:
Spelling: students follow on their spelling words for words their way. Classroom management. Students are working in groups; noise level and
Grammar: students began to learn about adverbs and adverbial phrases last term, monitoring student’s progress is a focus.
being a difficult concept to grasp, students require more practice.
Learning objectives: Learning environment and resources:
Grammar:
Learning Intention: To understand that adverbs add meaning to, or modify, verbs, • Grammar google site:
adjectives and other adverbs. https://sites.google.com/orchgveps.vic.edu.au/year-6-grammar/home
Success Criteria:I can recall the different types of adverbs: of manner, time, place,
frequency, degree, evaluation and conjunctive. • Padlet
I can identify adverbs within a sentence, and which type it is. https://padlet.com/alexedwards9769/wk4i8o30ip50
I can identify adverbs that belong to the same group.
Spelling: • Students require their iPads
Group 1 (green) • Word study word sorts for each group
LI: To identify short -i and long -i (vcc) with shorty -o and long -o (vcc). Group 1: SORT 23 BOOK 3
SC: I can identify short -i and long -i (vcc) with shorty -o and long -o (vcc). Group 2: SORT 18 BOOK 4
Group 2: (orange) Group 3: SORT 23 BOOK 5
LI: To identify long -i patterns and accented syllables. Group 4: SORT 23 BOOK 5
SC: I can identify long -i patterns and accented syllables.
Group 3: (red) • Kahoot:
LI: To add -ion vowel alternations, spelling change. https://create.kahoot.it/share/identifying-adverbs-that-belong-to-a-
SC: I can add -ion vowel alternations, spelling change. group/a2d911c6-6ec2-4a43-b83b-09ca174883ce
Group 4 (red)
LI: To add -ion vowel alternations, spelling change.
SC: I can add -ion vowel alternations, spelling change.
Assessment strategies:
Kahoot – results of the Kahoot are used to assess students understanding of the topic.
Questioning and roaming the classroom, checking students work

Stage of lesson Approx. Pre-service teacher’s actions

time

Stage 1 Revise what adverbs are from the grammar google site.
Introduction 15 mins

Task 1:
Stage 2 Students form groups of two or three within their reading groups (green, orange and red). They are to add to the padlet examples
Body of lesson of each adverbs and put them into a sentence (students do the types of adverbs based on their groups)
https://padlet.com/alexedwards9769/wk4i8o30ip50
60 mins
GREEN – manner, time, place ORANGE – manner, time, place, RED – manner, time, place,
frequency, degree frequency, degree, evaluation and conjunctive

While students are completing this task, group by group get students to come up and introduce their new word sort for the week.
Students take their word study words which are used for practicing each day and for homework.
Once the word study words have been distributed to each group, students move onto task 2.

Task 2
Students are to create a video to help them remember the different types of adverbs.
Students who are in green group only need to complete the three, orange completes the five and red should include all seven.

GREEN – manner, time, place ORANGE – manner, time, place, RED – manner, time, place,
frequency, degree frequency, degree, evaluation and conjunctive

Stage 3: Close the lesson by playing a Kahoot:

Conclusion 15 mins https://create.kahoot.it/share/identifying-adverbs-that-belong-to-a-group/a2d911c6-6ec2-4a43-b83b-09ca174883ce