Materials

• Adverbs Lesson - Use the printable lesson for your lesson plan, or use student version as lesson supplement.

• Adverbs Worksheets - Printable teaching adverbs worksheets.

Procedure

Definition:

An adverb describes a verb. It answers the questions: When? Where? How?

Teachers : read or write these sentences on the board. Tell the students how important it is to have lively, interesting verbs in sentences. Adverbs help to make verbs more interesting and easier to understand.

Example 1: "Henry showed us his blue ribbon."

- Ask the question: how did Henry show (the verb) his ribbon?

"Henry proudly showed us his blue ribbon."
"Henry secretly showed us his blue ribbon."

(By changing the adverb from "proudly" to "secretly", it completely changes the meaning of the sentence. Both adverbs describe the verb "show".)

Example 2: We quickly ran to our cars.
(quickly - tells how we ran)

Example 3: Amy finally caught a fish.
(finally - tells when Amy caught)

Example 4: The captain headed north.
(north -tells where the captain headed)

Most words ending in ly are adverbs. Three common exceptions are friendly, lonely, and lively, which are adjectives.

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