Topic: Lessons

In this activity, students explore the possibility of placing adverbs in various places within a sentence.

Goals

• Practise constructing sentences with adverbs.
• Identify a key trait of adverbs - that they can often be placed at various points in a sentence.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will be building sentences with adverbs.

In this exercise, students reinforce their spelling skills with the help of colour coding.

In this activity, students practise composing sentences with the word if.

Goals

• Rehearse an implicit understanding of the conditional meaning of if.
• Practise composing sentences using if.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will practise writing sentences with the word if.

In this activity, students practise composing sentences with the word because.

Goals

• Identify the causal relationship that underlies use of because.
• Compose some reasonable sentences using because.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will practise using the word because.

In this lesson, students arrange words on the smart board in order to create acceptable sentences.

Goals

• Use implicit grammatical knowledge to arrange word tiles on a smart board into sentences.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will arrange words to make sentences. All of the example sentences here have been drawn from our corpus.