Student: Kathleen Cox Professor: Professor Sills

Course: EDU 329-01 Date: March 4, 2014

Grade: Second Grade Topic: Verbs Content Area: English

Instructional Objective(s) (Lesson Objective(s)*)

After a class lesson on verbs and a “Simon Says” verb activity, students will correctly identify
the verb of a sentence on a class worksheet with 95% accuracy.

CCLS/ +NYS Standards and Indicators

Reading Standards for Literature K-5 #1: Key Ideas and Details:

Students will ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why,

and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Indicator:

 This will be evident when students are identifying the verb within a sentence that is given
to them.

Motivation (Engaging the learners*) (Engagement)

The teacher will have the students play a game of “Simon Says” for ten minutes, prior to the
lesson taking place. Then the teacher will tell the students that the action that they were being
told to do in “Simon Says” is called a verb. The teacher will then begin the lesson on verbs.

Materials

 Pencil
 Notebook
 Verb Worksheet

Strategies (Learning Strategies*)

Group Discussion: This will be evident when the teacher and the students are involved in the
“Simon Says” activity. This will also be evident when the teacher and the students are discussing
that the actions that the students were being told to do in the game, are actually verbs.

Direct Instruction: This will be evident when the teacher is explaining to the class that a verb is
only one part in the parts of speech, and exactly what a verb is.
Independent Study: This will be evident when the students are given their worksheet on
identifying the verb in each sentence.

Adaptations (Exceptionality*)

The student who is an English Language Learner will be provided with pictures specific to the
action words/verbs that will be included in the lesson, prior to the lesson on verbs. This will
ensure that the student is familiar with the action words.

Differentiation of Instruction

Tier One: Students will be given a worksheet in which the definition, as well as an example of a
verb is given at the top of their worksheet. Furthermore, students will be given a worksheet that
has two words bolded to give the students a helpful hint and a choice to choose the correct word
in the sentence that is a verb. This activity will be done with 95% accuracy.

Tier Two: Students will be given a worksheet of sentences; the students are to properly identify
which word in the sentence is a verb. This activity will be done with 95% accuracy.

Tier Three: Students will be given a worksheet of sentences; the students are to properly identify
which word in the sentence is a verb. Furthermore, the students will need to create a sentence on
their own in which the student can properly identify the verb of their sentence. This activity will
be done with 95% accuracy.

Developmental Procedures

 Students will participate in a “Simon Says” game to give examples of verbs.

 Students will write down on a piece of paper what he or she thinks the action in each
question of the game is. (What is Simon telling our class to do?)(What are you doing?)
 Students will be given a worksheet to complete in which the students will accurately label
the verb in each sentence. (Which word in each sentence is a verb, an action that is being
done in the sentence?)

Assessment (Artifacts* and Assessment [formal and informal]*)

Students will identify the verb in each sentence that is given on the worksheet with 95%
accuracy.

Independent Practice

Following the lesson on verbs, students will complete a worksheet with sentences that contain
verbs for the students to identify.
 Follow-Up Direct Teacher Intervention and Academic Enrichment

Direct Teacher Intervention: The student, under direct intervention with the teacher, will create a
sentence on their own and identify the verb in their sentence. This will help the student and
reinforce what a verb is and how it can be identified within a sentence.

Academic Enrichment: The student will create 5 sentences on their own and properly identify the
verb in each of their sentences, and present it to the class.
 Teacher References

C&I. (n.d.). NYS Learning Standards and Core Curriculum:CIIT:NYSED. Retrieved March 2,

2014, from http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/cores.html#ELA

Verb Worksheets. (n.d.). : Action Verbs, Linking Verbs, Verb Tenses. Retrieved March 2, 2014,

from http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/actionverbs.html

Verb Worksheets. (n.d.). for Elementary School. Retrieved March 1, 2014, from

http://www.k5learning.com/free-grammar-worksheets/verbs

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