English Language Arts, Expository Writing Unit



English Language Arts, Parts of Speech Unit 3, Adjectives, Lesson 10: The Predicate AdjectiveStandards Met: This lesson is part of the English Language Arts, Parts of Speech Unit 3, Adjectives, and meets the standards and activates the habits of mind delineated in that unit plan document. Big Ideas: linking verbs, predicates, attributes, linking verbs, complete, grammatically correct declarative sentences, good writing, adjectives. This lesson aims to teach students, again (for this material was covered in the Linking Verbs lesson in the Parts of Speech Unit 2, Verbs) how to use adjectives as simple predicates with the appropriate linking verb. This lesson also aims to call upon the prior knowledge students possess related to this area of English usage. Students will be able to compose a simple declarative sentence using a linking verb and a predicate adjective. Prior knowledge activated: Subjects and predicates, attributive adjectives, indefinite adjectives, interrogative adjectives, numerical adjectives, definite and indefinite articles, predicate nouns, predicate adjectives, descriptive and limiting adjectives, positive, comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives, the compound adjective, grammatically complete sentences. Students will be able to recognize and therefore use the predicate adjective properly in grammatically complete sentences.Classroom Aim: What is a predicate adjective? What is a linking verb? What are the linking verbs? How to we use linking verbs to join subjects with predicate adjectives?Do Now: 1. Everyday Edit Selection: Laura Ingalls Wilder; 2. Cultural Literacy Selection: Nota BeneClass Work: Guided inquiry into the use of linking verbs and predicate adjectives using a teacher-made worksheet that calls upon students to complete a series of modified cloze exercises, with the aid of a teacher-made learning support, by inserting an appropriate predicate adjective in the cloze blank. Students will then compose six sentences using the predicate adjective to demonstrate their understanding of the use of these words in sentences. This lesson uses a learning support, the Predicate Adjectives Word Bank Support.Independent Practice: Compose six sentences that demonstrate your understanding of the use of predicate adjectives and linking verbs.Methods and Materials: This lesson is presented as a highly structured guided inquiry. Therefore, it is designed to meet the needs of struggling and/or alienated students who deal with impediments to learning, including low levels of reading and writing ability, attention deficits, executive function weakness, or a variety of other behavioral and cognitive impairments and disabilities. Therefore, this lesson may have as many as four different versions of its do-now exercises, and scaffolded worksheets, edited for students’ reading ability. Moreover, depending on where this lesson is delivered, the language in its worksheets may be regionally specific. While this lesson addresses a skill necessary to achievement in the English language arts curriculum, its general focus is on enhancing students’ overall literacy and facility with language This lesson’s focus is to address difficulties in writing, particularly at the level of the grammatically complete expository sentence, by teaching syntax, grammar, and style synthetically. This lesson offers students a learning support—a word bank—to assist them in completing this work; this learning support is categorized by reading level, so the teacher may vary which he or she uses depending on the class’s overall reading ability. Please see Parts of Speech Unit 3: Adjectives Unit Plan for a fuller exposition of the students this lesson is meant to serve and its methods in meeting their needs.Need for Lesson: ELA POS UP3A LP10*lp smry; ELA POS UP3A LP10*dn1; ELA POS UP3A LP10*dn2; ELA POS UP3A LP10*sup; ELA POS UP3A LP10*ws; ELA POS UP3A LP10*wstcKey Points and Connections:Remind students that they have covered this material before in both the Nouns Unit and the Verbs Unit.N.B. that students may need help finding the right adjective; the teachers’ copy includes the columns to search—point the columns out to students to help them with their heuristic search to find the right word.Emphasize the use of verbs of the senses as linking verbs; run through the conjugation of to be.Supports: 1. Consider asking students, if they can balance the task with the others this lesson’s worksheet calls for, to mark off the adjectives in their learning supports they use in the cloze blanks, then choose adjectives they haven’t used in the cloze blanks in the sentences they write for independent practice.Essential Questions:How is this lesson on predicate adjectives related to the previous lesson on Linking Verbs?Next Lesson: Parts of Speech Unit 3, Adjectives, Lesson 11: Adjectives Unit Review and Concluding Assessment ................
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