In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will develop sentences with nouns, action verbs, adverbs and prepositional phrases. Then students will collect more ideas for sentences with interactive idea generator, record them, and move the order of them until they come across an order for the words in a sentence which they like the most. Then students will develop a story around the chosen sentence. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

Concepts

adverbs, prepositional phrases, sentence fluency, story starters, weather, descriptive writing

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Additional Tags

northern nevada writing project, who what when where, writingfix, examples of adverb use

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Classroom Considerations

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Common Core

L.4.1.e L.4.3.a