Jaclyn Turner
Observation #1 Lesson Plan
Date: 1/21/16
Lesson: Past-tense Verbs
Grade: 3rd
Time: 45 minutes
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.D
Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Objective:
Students will be able to recognize regular and irregular past-tense verbs.
Students will be able to form and use regular and irregular past tense
verbs.
Materials Needed:
Whiteboard/whiteboard maker
Worksheet that is provided
Language arts notebook
Beginning:
anchor chart as review/mini lesson
Begin by briefly reviewing past (actions that happened already), present
(actions that are happening now), and future (actions that will happen)
verbs. Tell students that we will be focusing today on past verbs.
Mini lesson on past tense verbs and create an anchor chart with rules:
Most verbs add ed (sometimes you have to drop the e or change
the y to an I first)
Some verbs are irregular (there is no rule we just have to know
them)
Some verbs stay the same
Sentences as guided practice (whiteboards)
ex: The dog _________ at the mailman as he walked by. (bark)
students will write the word in the correct past tense form on their
white boards
Game:
Verb Charades:
I will ask students who has played the game charades. I will explain
that students will be able to act out their own verb or they can choose from
a verb given to them. The other students will then guess the action that the
student is acting and will then change that verb to its past tense form. The
verbs will then be added to our anchor chart that we began at the beginning
of the lesson.
For students that may have stage fright can choose to skip the
acting and just change the verb into the past tense form.
students will be able to choose their own verb or draw a random verb
from a bag that I have filled with verbs.
If the same verbs are being used too many times then students can
choose from the bag as well.
Each student will add their verb to the anchor chart where the rule
applies (regular ed, irregular, or stays the same).
Closing/Assessment:
Students will complete the Past-tense verb worksheet provided for
them.
Tentative Script
Opening (2 minutes):
so this morning we are going to be working with grammar thinking
about parts of speech and how we use verbs. Who can tell me what a verb
is? Can you give me an example of one?
-action words
-we use verbs to tell what we are doing