Lesson Plan

Silly Sentences

Help your students learn how the various parts of speech work together to lengthen and enrich simple sentences. In this lesson, young writers will enjoy constructing wacky sentences with different parts of speech.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to use nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to create sentences.

Introduction

(10 minutes)
  • Begin the lesson with a brief review of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
  • Explain that they will be using those parts of speech to build sentences.
  • Demonstrate by placing sticky notes on the board. Start with just noun and verb. Then add an article, adjective, and adverb to create a sentence structure.