Proofread: Subject-Verb Agreement

At the end of this unit, students will be able to...

a. Proofread for spelling and for subject-verb agreement.

b. Write a personal narrative and proofread the composition.

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Informal Evaluations-Teacher observation during markerboard practice and T-chart construction where students take sample subjects and put proper verbs with them so they agree. Guided practice of finding the errors in the sample newspaper article. Class discussions about the article.

Independent Activity-Students will write a personal narrative about being a witness to a crime. Students may have peers help them proofread for errors, especially errors in subject-verb agreement. Students will write a final draft which will be included in their personal portfolio.

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The students will:

1. Understand the subject and the verb of a sentence must agree in numbers. Construct a T-chart in which to write a number of examples of subjects and decide a verb that could go with each particular subject. 

2. Take a sample newspaper article with errors and find the mistakes in subject-verb agreement.

3. Write a personal narrative about being a witness to a crime.  Write your narrative as if you were telling the police what you saw during the crime.  Include as many details as possible.

4.  Check to see that the subject and verb of each sentence agree in number.

5.  Write a final draft to be included in your portfolio of written works.

The teacher will:

1. Help students to learn that the subject and the verb of a sentence must agree in numbers. On the markerboard, students will construct a T-chart in which we will write a number of examples of subjects and the students will decide a verb that could go with each particular subject. It is also important to remind students that subjects joined by and take a plural verb; subjects joined by or or nor, use a verb that agrees with the closer subject.

2. Guide students as they take a sample newspaper article with errors and find the mistakes in subject-verb agreement.

3. Discuss and model writing a personal narrative about being a witness to a crime. Students will write their narrative as if they are telling the police what they saw during the crime. Students are to try and include as many details as possible.

4.  Once students have written their rough draft, they are to check that the subject and verb of each sentence agree in number.

5.  Guide students in writing their final draft to be included in their portfolio of written works.

Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary McDougal

Littell Basic Skills in English

Individual Portfolios

Newspapers

Peer Reading of Rough Drafts

Re-write(s) if necessary

Have teams of students write a series of clues to find a mystery item hidden in the classroom.

Tutoring

Extended Time