Grade 1 · Lesson 41 — A word that tells more about a verb

U1 · Level One — Parts of Speech · Adverbs · student sheet is G1_L41_Worksheet.html
Ask the question, then answer. Adverb: “How? When? Where?”

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Sidneystreakedaway;shewassoonblue.1Ask: How? When? Where?2Try it — “__ed away” ✓ — so “away” is an adverb.Same steps every time. The marks stay.
Before you mark: Explicitly compared with adjectives: same job, different target. No -ly rule yet.
  1. Find the adverb.
    The boy walked slowly.
    the adverb in “The boy walked slowly.”
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  2. Find the adverb.
    She sang loudly.
    the adverb in “She sang loudly.”
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  3. Find the adverb.
    We will leave soon.
    the adverb in “We will leave soon.”
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  4. Find the adverb.
    The children played outside.
    the adverb in “The children played outside.”
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  5. Find the adverb.
    He finished the work carefully.
    the adverb in “He finished the work carefully.”
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  6. Find the adverb.
    Slowly, the door opened.
    the adverb in “Slowly, the door opened.”
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
Secure looks like: Given six sentences mixing adjectives and adverbs, the child sorts them by asking what each word is telling us about, and gets at least five right.
As-Suffah Academy · Language Arts Lesson 41 · TEACHER EDITION