Prepositions Lesson, Grades 3-4: Adding Detail with Prepositional Phrases

The dog ran. The dog ran across the muddy yard. Which one paints a better picture? In about 40 minutes, students learn to grow a short sentence by adding a prepositional phrase that tells where, when or how (in the lake, after lunch, with a float), and that a phrase that tells where or when can move to the start of the sentence.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Rule Notes, 1 student page with a where, when and how phrase chart
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Teacher answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 6 pages: lesson plan, Rule Notes, worksheet and answer key together

Answer key included

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