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Teacher Name: Jason Soucy

Coach Name: Sara Wortinger
Subject Area/Grade Level: 7th grade ELA
Lesson Topic: Helping verbs
Date: June 27, 2012

OBJECTIVE. Measurable, Manageable, Made First, CONNECTION TO BIG GOAL. How does the
Most Important objective connect to the summer achievement goal?

SWBAT identify helping verbs in a sentence. Students identifying verbs in sentences will help to
increase their ability to construct sentences correctly.

Understanding the differences in the eight parts of

speech will build the foundation for students to be
strong readers and writers.

ASSESSMENT. Describe, briefly, what students will do KEY POINTS. What knowledge and skills are
to show you that they have mastered (or made embedded in the objective?
progress toward) the objective.
Attach your daily assessment (EXIT TICKET), completed to
Pre-Planning

include an exemplary student response that illustrates the

expected level of rigor.

1. Name the term:
This type of verb that helps the main verb
express action or a state of being.
A _________________ contains one main verb
and one or more helping verbs.
2. Circle the verb phrase in the following
sentences. Then, underline the helping verb(s).
a. Bryan is reading his favorite book.
b. The Heat must have won the
championship already.
c. Jennifer is always working on her
homework!
A helping verb is a verb that helps the main
verb express action or a state of being .
A verb phrase contains one main verb and one
or more helping verbs.
Many of the linking verbs learned earlier are
also helping verbs.
Sometimes a verb phrase is interrupted by
another part of speech.
We find verb phrases by looking for helping
verbs and main verbs.
Learning about helping verbs helps to increase
the accuracy of our writing and helps us to
understand timing and setting context.
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OPENING. How will you engage student interest and connect lesson content to previous learning and your
students goals.

Praise for Threshold and silence in the classroom.

Complete Entry Routine. Remind students to check the necessary materials section on the board. Remind that
Do Now will be completed by 10:05.

Do Now
Copy these sentences on a blank sheet of paper. Underline the nouns and circle the verb. Note: there may be
more than one noun!
Lesson Cycle

1. Jimmy has eaten all his food.

2. Kelli will help save the rainforest in South America.
3. I will never be scared again!

Close door, I clap twice. Students clap three times. I greet, they return greeting.

Group read-aloud of Big Goal.

Check for recollection of SLANT.

Review Do Now, including Cold Calling on someone to read out the objectives for the day. (Do now reviews
pronouns and nouns and introduces adjectives.)

Link from previous lessons about nouns, pronouns and adjectives to let them know that verbs are necessary to
make complete sentences.
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INTRODUCTION OF NEW MATERIAL. How will you introduce the knowledge and/or skills of the lesson?
What will your students be doing to process this information?

A helping verb is a verb that helps the main verb express action or a state of being.
A verb phrase contains one main verb and one or more helping verbs. Yes, there may be more than
one! P. 95
Some of the linking verbs (the forms of be) are also helping verbs. Sometimes they are simply the
main verb.
Sometimes a verb phrase is interrupted by another part of speech. P.96
We find verb phrases by looking for helping verbs and main verbs.
o Think Aloud:
1st example
I write see sentence Bobby is going to the store.
I think to myself, Im getting pretty good at spotting verbs nowtheyre actions or
state of being. But it looks like I might have two here.
I see that Bobby is a noun, and I know that go is an actionso that must be a verb.
But why is there another is there? Maybe Ill look at my chart on p.96 to see if is is
a helping verb.
P.96 says that it is! That must mean this is a verb phrase!
What Im going to do, then, is to circle the whole verb phrase because its just one
verb. Then, Im going to underline the helping verb. That must mean that going is
the main verb!
2nd exampleform of be is main verb
That one was pretty easy, but what happens when the main verb becomes a linking
I Do

verbbut it also looks like a helping verb? I am seeing the sentence He might have
been the best in his class.
Im looking at what I think are all verbsmight, have, and beenbut Im a really not
sure which one is the verb. Maybe the whole thing is the verb phrase.
But if thats the case, then where is the main verb??? Maybe its best. But I know
that best is a word that can describe someone or something, so that must be an
adjective.
You know, I remember learning yesterday that be can be a verb on its own! Thats
called a linking verb. So that must mean it can also be a main verb!
So, I cant circle best or the because they are adjectivesso I must have to circle
might have been
But then.what do I underline? What is the helping verb? Well, been is the main
verbso that must mean might is a helping verb. What about have? Oh, I
rememberI can have more than one helping verb! So, I underline might have!
3rd examplethe interrupter
Example: I can always try harder!
Well, I know that try is an action because I try all the time. And I just learned that
can is a helping verbso I want to circle can always try.
But waitI cant do alwaysand its not a linking verb. And p.96 does not say that
always is a helping verb. What do I do with always???
Wait! Sometimes helping verbs get interrupted. Always tells me how much
something can happenso I need to circle just can and try.
We learned this because the verb is the ONLY absolutely required word to make a complete sentence.
o Examples: Stop! and Freeze!
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GUIDED PRACTICE. In what ways will your students attempt to do what you have outlined? How will you
monitor and coach their performance?

These sentences are supposed to teach the students the ability to identify linking verbs. Each dyad will have
these ten sentences to complete:

Directions: In the following sentences, identify the verb phrase by circling it. Then, underline the helping
verb or verbs (there may be more than one!)

**For extra practice, circle all the nouns in the sentences.**

1. I am helping him with the homework.

2. We have been traveling for a long time.
3. He was winning the race at one point.
We Do

4. Were you using that chair?

5. That pot is going to fall off the stove.
6. He will get an award for his hard work.
7. He must have been happy about the results.
8. She has not gone to the beach.
9. I have begun the essay already.
10. You should have been listening.

I will Cold Call each group to then share their answers with the class and then process about the answers, if
necessary.
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INDEPENDENT PRACTICE. In what ways will your students attempt the objective on their own? How will you
gauge mastery?

Now its time for you to practice on your own. Remember that this is silent time.

Complete Separate Desks tight transition.

p. 97ex. 5, 1-10 Identifying Verb Phrases and Helping Verbs

For additional credit, identify the nouns in the sentences, too.
Early finishers: Write 5 simple sentences using an verb phrase with a helping verb.
You Do

Exit Ticket happens at the end.

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CLOSING. How will you have students summarize what theyve learned? How will you reinforce the objectives
importance and its link to past and future learning?

Write a sentence with a helping verb. Main verbs and helping verbs will be written on the board in different
colors. Helping verbs and action verbs will include:

- Will
- Can
- Could
- Should
- Do
- Have
- Must
Lesson Cycle

- Are
- Is

- Fly
- Jump
- Walk
- Eat
- Read
- Cook
- Bounce
- Run
- Bark