Give your ELs concrete experience with adverbs and adverbial phrases as a tool to discover details in nonfiction texts. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the Hey! What's the Big Idea? lesson.
Students will be able to identify the main idea of a nonfiction text.
Language
Students will be able to explain supporting details with adverbial phrases using a web graphic organizer.
Introduction
(4 minutes)
Ask students to share their knowledge of verbs by talking to a partner about what a verb is.
Invite a few students to share their conversation and record their responses. Confirm the definition of a verb and provide more examples (e.g., "run," "walk," "smile," "create," "play").
Ask students if they know what type of speech modifies, or describes verbs. Guide students to discover that adverbs are words that modify verbs.
Tell your learners that today they will learn to identify adverbs and adverbial phrases which give us supporting details in nonfiction texts.