At a Glance:
| Grades: | 5 |
|---|---|
| Subject: | ELA (English Language Arts) |
| Topic: | Understanding Prepositions |
| Lesson Length: | 30 - 45 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will learn about prepositions and create a comic to demonstrate the use of prepositions in sentences.
What should students know before this activity?
This is an introductory lesson for understanding prepositions. Students will recognize that we use prepositions to show where or when something is in relation to something else.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- Read and discuss sample comic.
- What is taking place?
- Where are the characters?
- What do students notice about the change in location, space, time, or direction for each of the characters?
- Discuss that we use prepositions, or prepositional phrases, to show relationships between nouns or pronouns and distance, time, location, or direction. For example, to, on, in, at, during, by, inside, under, etc.
- Explain that a preposition, or prepositional phrase, can also be “taped” to the front of a sentence with a comma, see panel three.
- Ask students to help generate a list of prepositions.
What will students do?
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a three-to-four-panel comic that uses prepositions to show where or when something is in relation to something else.
- Remind students that when a preposition or prepositional phrase comes in the front of a sentence it needs a comma to “tape” it on to the sentence.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- Allow students to share their comics with others.
- Discuss how students can use prepositions in their writing.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Provide a list of prepositions for students to use as a reference.
- Use visual and movement cues alongside prepositions to promote understanding.
Home
Elementary School
Magic School
Suggested Story Starters:
