Abigail Snyder

Edu 201
11/15/2021
Lesson Plan

Standard: L.1.1A: use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future tense.

Objectives:

Students will be able to: identify past, present, and future tense verbs through

discussion of what they did last weekend, what they are doing now, and what they will

be doing next weekend. (A, Linguistic)

Students will be able to: change verb tenses to past, present, and future tense by

connecting Legos that show each tense of the same verb. (V, K, Kinesthetic,

Linguistic)

Students will be able to: create sentences using past, present, and future tense verbs by

creating human sentences. (V, K, Kinesthetic, Linguistic)

Materials: Legos with verbs written on them showing past, present, and future.

Place cards with words written on them to complete human sentences.

Three column handouts for each student to write past, present, and future tense.

Procedure: Review verbs and what they do for sentences (give action or being, a sentence must

have a verb to be complete).

Teacher: “Students can one of you remind me what verbs are and what they do to a sentence?”

Students: “Verbs are actions like jump and walk.”

Ask a few students to demonstrate verbs and have the class identify what they are doing (Joe

will walk, Ann will jump, Steve will skip, etc.).

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Teacher: “That’s right! Can I get a volunteer to demonstrate this sentence? *Joe is walking.

Teacher will pick a student to come up to the front of the class and demonstrate.

Students: *will demonstrate walking*

The teacher will then talk about what each student did and explain that once they were done, it

is now in the past (walk becomes walked, jump becomes jumped, skip becomes skipped, etc.).

The teacher will then talk about what the students will do at recess (Joe will walk, Ann will

jump, and Steve will skip), and this is future tense, it has not happened yet.

Teacher: “what will you do at recess today?”

Student: “I will walk, I will jump, and I will skip”

The teacher will share what she did last weekend and ask the students what verbs she used

(shopped, cleaned, washed, watched, danced, etc.).

Teacher: “Last weekend I shopped at the store. I came home and cleaned my house. I washed my

clothes. On Saturday, I danced to music. On Sunday, I relaxed.” And ask the students what

verbs on she used (shopped, cleaned, washed, watched, danced, relaxed). The teacher will list the

verbs on the board which will show a three-column chart.

She will ask “what column does each verb belong in?”

Students will respond “Past tense.”

Teacher will ask “what is the present tense of shopped?”

Students will respond “Shop”. Teacher will write that in the present tense column.

Teacher will ask: “how do we make this a future tense?”

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Students will respond: “by putting will in front of it”. Students will then pair up and share what

they did last weekend. Using the three-column chart, they will write the verb in the past tense

column first, and then identify the present tense of the verb and write it in the present tense

column. They will then identify the future tense of the verb (will+ verb). Students will then be

placed in groups of 3 with a bag of Legos containing five different verbs in each tense. They will

need to connect the verbs together to show past, present, and future tense making a three-part

Lego connection. Each group will share their verb clusters with the class, identifying each tense

of verb. Students will be placed in groups of four where each student will be given a card with a

different word on it. They will need to figure out how to create a complete sentence using their

words and line up to show the class the complete sentence.

Closure: Teacher will review a few of the students’ responses orally with the class asking for

them to identify the tense. Remind the students of how verbs are necessary to action or being for

a story. As a reward students will get an extra five minutes on computer time.

Assessment: The teacher will model an event sequence such as “Yesterday, I read a book. It

taught me interesting things about gardening. Tomorrow, I will plant some flower seeds.” Each

student will create their own event sequence about themselves. Students will be randomly

selected to act out their event sequence.

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