Before you teach — read this first
Grade 7 · Lesson 33 — Adverb
U1 · Level One — Parts of Speech · Adverb (—) · 10–15 minutes · 14 slides ·
Launch → I do → We do → You do → Closure
The grammar behind this lesson — read this before you teach it.AdverbWhat it is. An adverb tells more about a verb — how, when, or where.
Why our test works. 'How, when, or where?' works because those are exactly the questions a verb leaves open. The adverb is the answer the verb invites.
Leans on. Verbs. The adverb has nothing to modify until the verb is found.
Watch for. Adverbs also modify adjectives and other adverbs — very quickly. Hold that back until the verb case is secure.
What this lesson is
A review day. No new concept: today drills subject. Choose the focus from the last assessment rather than from a plan made months ago — the sheet works on whatever you pick. The worked example is built on The boy ran fast., ringing boy.
Why it matters — say this in your own words, about ten seconds.
“Every one of these words is a tool you will keep for life.”
A different reason every lesson, on purpose. It is not on a slide and it
is not a script — if you have a better reason today, use yours. What should land is the
idea, not a sentence they can recite.
Recall — sixty seconds, before anything new
Retrieve: Verb · Noun + Pronoun + Adjective. Ask for it before you introduce anything, take the answers from boards rather than from hands so you see all thirty, and do not re-teach — note who has lost it and carry on. This is the middle of the launch: context, then this, then why it matters. Only what today leans on — a minute spent retrieving something unrelated costs the same and buys nothing, and the child who cannot recall the prerequisite is the one you will lose in the I-do.
How it goes
- Ten seconds on why it matters — “Every one of these words is a tool you will keep for life.” Your words, not those; it is a different reason every lesson so what lands is the idea rather than a sentence they can recite.
- Then you do one yourself, on screen, one click per move: The boy ran fast. · the question · ring boy · name it a subject. Do it exactly the way you want it done — this is the task they are about to do on their boards, not an easier one.
- You build the same thing on the board and leave it up for subject. The four steps are identical in every lesson of this unit — sentence, question, test, answer — so the children read the method rather than the layout, and today's board shows The boy ran fast. still marked when they start work.
- The We-do runs 1 items on whiteboards — First, we must say what we are talking about, and second, we must say what we are saying about it.Who or what is this about?. You are scanning for who applies the question and who is guessing from meaning; those look identical on a right answer and completely different on a wrong one.
- Exit directions in full, standing still, before anyone moves — Sheet and pencil · Read the question above each one BEFORE you answer it · Find the subject. Then they work alone, with the same worked example printed at the head of their sheet.
- Close on First, we must say what we are talking about, and second, we must say what we are saying about it. — an item they have not met, so it measures rather than reminds — then the line they leave with: “The subject is who or what it is about.”
- Watch for: Marks the first word rather than the subject — The subject usually starts the sentence, so position works often enough to hide. If you see it: “Who or what is it ABOUT? Say the whole naming part.” (Remedial sheet 19.)