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Adding Adverbs to Sentences Teaching Presentation

Updated: 27 Sep 2023

Enjoy this fun drama game with your students as you teach them that adverbs describe how, when or where a verb is happening!

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 3

Curriculum

VC2E1LA07

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives), relationships in time and space (prepositions) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) <ul> <li>understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example people, places or things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking and being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer ‘When?’, ‘Where?’ and ‘How?’)</li> <li>recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA02

Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion can be varied to be more or less forceful <ul> <li>recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts</li> <li>exploring examples of language that demonstrate a range of emotions and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events, for example ‘The wizard was cunning, expert, inventive’</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA09

Understand how modal verbs indicate obligation, probability and possibility <ul> <li>exploring how modal verbs (for example, ‘must’, ‘might’ and ‘could’) indicate degrees of probability or obligation</li> </ul>

EN1-CWT-01

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN2-VOCAB-01

Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-RECOM-01

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN2-CWT-01

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-CWT-02

Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-CWT-03

Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features,sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

teaching resource

Adding Adverbs to Sentences Teaching Presentation

Updated: 27 Sep 2023

Enjoy this fun drama game with your students as you teach them that adverbs describe how, when or where a verb is happening!

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 3

Enjoy this fun drama game with your students as you teach them that adverbs describe how, when or where a verb is happening!

Adding in Adverbs!

If your students are learning how to write simple sentences, this teaching presentation will highlight how they can add adverbs to their sentences to make them more interesting and provide more information about the topic or scene!

This 19-slide deck reviews the parts of speech you’ll already have covered (nouns and verbs), before explaining what adverbs are and how they can be used to provide additional detail.

Through viewing this teaching presentation and completing the tasks set out within, students will gain an understanding of how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adverbs.

Using These Teaching Slides in Your Classroom

Teaching slides are a fantastic way to introduce a new concept to your class. These have been specifically designed by a teacher to support your introductory lessons. They can also be used to revise (for example, after a break from school!).

Project the slides on your screen and share them step-by step with your class.

Easily Download Your Adverbs Teaching Slides

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PPT or Google Slides version of this resource. Both versions are editable, should you wish to add or delete slides to cater to your learners.

This awesome adverbs teaching resource was created by Renee Murrant, a teacher in Sydney and Teach Starter collaborator.

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Curriculum

VC2E1LA07

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives), relationships in time and space (prepositions) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) <ul> <li>understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example people, places or things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking and being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer ‘When?’, ‘Where?’ and ‘How?’)</li> <li>recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA02

Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion can be varied to be more or less forceful <ul> <li>recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts</li> <li>exploring examples of language that demonstrate a range of emotions and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events, for example ‘The wizard was cunning, expert, inventive’</li> </ul>
VC2E3LA09

Understand how modal verbs indicate obligation, probability and possibility <ul> <li>exploring how modal verbs (for example, ‘must’, ‘might’ and ‘could’) indicate degrees of probability or obligation</li> </ul>

EN1-CWT-01

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN2-VOCAB-01

Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-RECOM-01

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN2-CWT-01

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-CWT-02

Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-CWT-03

Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features,sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

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