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Recounts | Newspaper Reports
Objectives
To explore and comment on how a writer's choice of verbs makes meaning clearer.
Resources
Any local newspaper | 📄 Iron Man Powerful Verbs worksheet | Completed Poster from Week 9
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week. Use Spelling Frame Practice/Test to learn this week's words. Use the Begin Practice option here.
Main Activity
Tell your student that today you are going to focus on something that will make their newspaper reports stronger – powerful verbs! Ask your student to tell you what a verb is (a doing or being word). Tell them that powerful verbs are a bit like adjectives in that they help a writer to create a more vivid image in the mind of the reader.
Please watch the following video that will explain how and why we use powerful verbs in our writing.
Let’s look at an example.
I went across the room.
Ask your student to identify the verb in the sentence (went). Ask your student to describe how the person went across the room. Next, say can you think of another way of getting across the room that might give the reader a better picture of how it happened? You can ask them to actually cross the room different ways and then name the verb. For example, hopped, jumped, crawled, slithered, sauntered, swayed, sashayed – come up with as many as you can. Explain that when they are writing, they should always be trying to create an image in the mind of the reader and that using powerful verbs will help them to do so.
Complete the Iron Man Powerful Verbs worksheet. (Choose whether your student should complete ‘Powerful Verbs’ or ‘Powerful Verbs 2’). Support your student if they find a verb they don’t know and help them use a dictionary to find out its meaning, if necessary.
📄 COMPLETE - Iron Man Powerful Verbs Worksheet
Once your student has completed the powerful verbs sheet, ask them to add ‘powerful verbs’ to their poster (that they started making in week 9). Ask them to choose three powerful verbs they would like to try to use in their own newspaper report and add them to the poster.