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|Reading Lesson: Subject Verb Agreement |Grade Level: 6 |

|Lesson Summary: Students rewrite headlines with incorrect subject/verb agreement and then switch with a partner and correct. Students play a PowerPoint game, |

|writing a subject/verb to correspond to an image. Advanced students create quizzes with multiple-choice verbs. Struggling students write sentences using singular |

|subjects/verbs and then plural. |

|Lesson Objectives: |

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|The students will know… |

|that subjects and verbs must agree in number. |

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|The students will be able to… |

|identify correct and incorrect subject/verb agreement. |

|Learning Styles Targeted: |

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|Visual |

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|Auditory |

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|Kinesthetic/Tactile |

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|Pre-Assessment: |

|Write five sentences on the board.* Pass out two index cards per student with “S” written on one card and “P” written on the other card. Explain that the “S” card |

|stands for “singular” and the “P” card stands for “plural.” |

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|Have students identify the subject in the first sentence, and hold up either the “S” or “P” card. Then have students identify the verb, and hold up either the “S” |

|or “P” card. Does the verb agree with the subject? If not, have students change the verb so it agrees with the subject. |

|Whole-Class Instruction |

|Materials Needed: PowerPoint presentation*, pencil, paper, and newspapers |

|Procedure: |

|Presentation |

|Discuss how singular subjects require single verbs and plural subjects, plural verbs. Remind students that most verbs use the opposite s approach to |

|singular/plural, with singular verbs adding an -s at the end. |

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|Practice with the following combinations: The girl talks on her cell phone. The girls talk on their cell phones. His sneaker smells. His sneakers smell. The |

|student reads a book. The students read books. |

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|Review pronouns that sound plural, but are singular. Have students practice writing sentences using the following pronouns paired with a singular verb: everybody, |

|everyone, neither, either. |

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|Discuss the tricky pronoun none, which uses a singular verb when it means “no one” or “not one” and a plural verb when it means or suggests more than one thing or |

|person. Practice writing sentences with none as a class. |

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|Then review another tricky pairing: nouns that refer to one item, but end in an -s and take plural verbs. Tell students that although these nouns are singular in |

|nature, they sometimes have “pair of” preceding them. |

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|Have students practice writing sentences with the following nouns: scissors, glasses, pants, tongs. |

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|Guided Practice |

|Work with students to identify subject/verbs in newspaper headlines and determine whether they are singular or plural. |

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|Then distribute newspapers and have students rewrite headlines with incorrect subject/verb agreement. They should exchange their headlines with a partner and |

|challenge each other to correctly revise so that there is correct subject/verb agreement. |

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|Independent Practice |

|Have students play a PowerPoint game*, writing a noun and a verb after viewing an image and then combining both in a sentence. |

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|Closing Activity |

|Ask students to share how they remember a tricky subject/verb pairing from the Presentation. |

|Advanced Learner |

|Materials Needed: pencil, paper |

|Procedure: |

|Tell students that they will be creating quizzes with ten sentences and three multiple-choice verbs to select the correct choice. Start them off with an example: I|

|wish I _____ as creatively as my friend Maya. A. writes B. wrote C. written The correct answer is B, wrote. |

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|Have pairs of students exchange their quizzes, and then take the quizzes, circling the correct multiple-choice verb. Students can return the quizzes and grade |

|them. |

|Struggling Learner |

|Materials Needed: magazines, pencil, and paper |

|Procedure: |

|Distribute 3 copies of magazine photos containing people and animals. Have students write a sentence about the photo using a singular subject and corresponding |

|verb. Then have them use a plural subject and corresponding verb. |

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|Ask volunteers to read their sentence pairs to the class. |

*see supplemental resources

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