Download action, being, helping, linking, verb phrases: main verb, helping verb

Curriculum and Instruction Maps
Dade County Schools
Course: 6th Grade ELA
Unit:#6 Verbs
Stage 1: Desired Results
Standards Assessed/Learning Goals
ELA6C1 a. Identifies and uses the eight basic parts of speech and demonstrates that words can be
different parts of speech within a sentence.
iv. Identifies and uses verbs – action (transitive/intransitive), linking, andstate-of-being.
v. Identifies and uses verb phrases – main verbs and helping verbs. action, being, helping, linking,
verb phrases: main verb, helping verb, direct object/indirect object, transitive, intransitive
Enduring Understandings
Every sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
The verb is the predicate.
Essential Questions
-What job does a verb do in a sentence?
-Can you write a sentence without a verb?
-How do verbs help us understand the meaning of a
sentence?
Knowledge
Skills
Students will know …
-Action verbs are transitive or intransitive.
-Action Verbs have direct objects and/or indirect
objects.
-Verb phrases
-Main/Helping/Linking/State of Being Verbs
-5 to be verbs = is, am, are, was, were;
-B = be, being, been;
-H = has, have, had;
-D = do, did, does;
-M = may, might, must;
-W = will, would,
-S = shall, should ,
-C = can, could.
-Linking Verbs – smell, look , taste, feel, appear,
seem, become
Diagnostic/Prior Knowledge
Assessment
Teacher-made multiple choice
pre-test in CRCT format, using
CRCT practice book questions.
Students will know how to…
-identify the action verb in the sentence
- determine and locate the direct object (noun)
-determine and locate the indirect object
-locate and use:
action verbs
linking verbs
state of being verbs
-synthesize various types of verbs by creating
original sentences
Stage 2: Evidence of Learning
Formative Assessments
-Ticket -out-the-door - Write a
sentence and draw 2 lines under
the verb, one line under the
subject.
-Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
-Pair/Share - original sentences
indicating the verb or verb phrase.
Summative Assessments
Same test as the teacher-made
multiple choice pre-test in CRCT
format, using CRCT practice book
questions.
Curriculum and Instruction Maps
Dade County Schools
-Pair/Share Card - "What I learned
today"
-TOP 100 test - match the
definition
Stage 3: Learning Activities
Teaching for Meaning, Acquisition, &
Higher Order Thinking Levels
Transfer
-Students will create a Tree Thinking Map to
-Understanding
classify the types of verbs or an acrostic
-Applying
sentence. This will also help them remember
-Remembering
the various types of verbs, and facilitate their
-Create
usage in writing.
-Students can differentiate between the various
types of verbs and use them appropriately in
their original paragraphs.
-Students will create an essay which includes a
variety of verbs and verb phrases. The student
will be able to label the verbs they use in their
sentences.