Lesson Plan Format School of Education The College of New Jersey

1. Topic: Helping Verbs Grade Level: 3rd 2. Essential Question(s): a. Do students know the 23 helping verbs? b. Are they able to correctly identify helping verbs in a sentence? c. Do students understand the purpose of helping verbs? d. Are students correctly able to write sentences using helping verbs? 3. Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.F Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*

4. Learning Objectives and Assessments Objectives SWBAT identify the 23 helping verbs in sentences. Assessments Students will be given a worksheet to underline and identify the helping verb in the sentence.

SWBAT write their own sentences Students will be broken up into using helping verbs. groups and play a game and buzz in to answer questions.

SWBAT identify the purpose of helping verbs.

Students will be asked to refresh my memory and remind me why helping verbs are used.

5. Materials: Helping verbs YouTube video Worksheets Subject verb agreement poster Acronym poster (23 helping verbs) 6. Pre-lesson assignment and/or prior knowledge: a. Students will identify what is a verb. b. I will then ask them to recall subject verb agreement. 7. Lesson Beginning:
I will write two sentences on the board that do not include a helping verb. I will ask the students if the sentences sound correct. When they answer I will ask them to correct me and tell me what is missing. I will ask what kinds of words these are. I will then tell them that some verbs need help. I will then introduce helping verbs.

8. Instructional Plan:
Students will take out their writing notebook to write down what a helping verb is. o Helping verbs work with the main verb to tell about the action. Usually, they give the reader more detail about when the action takes place. o A verb cannot be a helping verb unless there is another verb to help. Together, the main verb and its helping verb are called a verb phrase.

I will then tell students there are 23 helping verbs. They will have the acronym on the poster to refer to but I will also pass out a worksheet for students to have. I will then play the youtube clip for the students and we can sing it together and they will gain more familiarity with the

helping verbs. I will then have the students return to their desks to complete a worksheet where they underline and identify the helping verbs in each sentence. We will then go over this as a class. I will then give them another worksheet where they will fill in the blanks and create their own sentences. We will go over this as a class. 9. Closure: We will review the helping verbs once more. I will ask them if there are any questions.
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