Lesson 4: Using prepositional phrases to indicate place
Learning Intention: Students are learning to understand narrative structures and that they can be told through a range of modes and media.
Success Criteria:
Students can:
identify the beginning, middle and end in a narrative
sequence ideas in a text
use time connectives to sequence events in a text
group and use vocabulary to clarify meaning
use prepositional phrases to indicate place
write compound sentences with the conjunction ‘and’
understand that narratives can be told using different modes and media
recount events in a narrative using symbols, pictures, words and numerals.
prepositions and preopsitional phrases
Prepositions are words that indicate time or place (where something or someone is in a sentence).
This lesson will focus on prepositions that indicate place.
Flick through the illustrations in Clancy & Millie and the Very Fine House to brainstorm and record a work bank of prepositions. For example: inside, on, under, beside, above, behind.
As students respond, model using the illustrations to verbalise a sentence using a subject, verb and prepositional phrase. For example:
Clancy (subject) sits (verb) under the table (prepositional phrase).
Go to the double page of Clancy & Millie and the Very Fine House with illustrations showing Clancy kicking, opening, crawling under and sitting inside a box.
Model writing a sentence using think-alouds to show the subject, verb and prepositional phrase that describes the action and position of a character.
Activity:In pairs, students turn and talk to practise using a subject, verb and prepositional phrase to describe the action and position.
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Co-construct sentences with prepositional phrases that describe the actions of Clancy and Millie in the text. For example, ‘Clancy sits inside the box. Millie climbed over the fence.
Using sentence strips, each student writes at least one sentence using a subject, verb and prepositional phrase to describe one of their models.
Too hard? Co-construct writing a simple sentence with a subject and prepositional phrase using ‘is’ as the verb. For example, ‘He is on the box.’