Recounts | Common and Proper Nouns

Objectives

To explore and identify past and present verb forms in texts.

Resources

Lined or blank paper

Today's Lesson

Spelling

Review or complete a spelling activity for the test to be taken during Lesson 5.

Main Activity

Briefly review the term ‘verb’ (a doing, being, or feeling word). Write the words ‘today’ and ‘yesterday’ at top of a blank sheet of paper. Work with your student by placing the following verbs in the proper columns: eat, ate, run, ran walk, walked, hop, hopped

Talk to your student about how verbs change depending on whether they are in the past or the present.

Explain that the spelling of verbs also changes depending on whether they are in the past or present.

At this point, you may wish to watch the following video before moving on to the next stage of the lesson.

Look at the verbs you put in the ‘today’ or ‘yesterday’ columns above.

Go back to the discussion at the end of yesterday’s lesson when you asked your student to explain what a recount is. Explain that recounts are pieces of text written in the past as they recount or tell something that has already happened.

Listen to the story (The Day I Swapped my Dad) from yesterday and ask your student to take note of the verbs they hear.

WATCH - The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (YouTube)

Feel free to pause the video and add them to the paper with ‘today’ and ‘yesterday’ on it. The verbs from the story should go under ‘yesterday’ and your student should write the present tense of the same verb under ‘today.’

Citations

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