CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1e

ELA4th GradeConventions of Standard English

The Standard

Form and use prepositional phrases.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students recognize word groups that begin with a preposition and include its object. They use these groups to add clear details about place, time, direction, or manner.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can identify the preposition and its object in a sentence. They can add phrases that clearly show where, when, or how something happens without creating fragments.
Common Misconceptions: Students may label any word showing location as a complete phrase, even when it has no object. They may also mistake the object of the phrase for the sentence subject or write the phrase as a sentence fragment.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Expand “The dog slept” with one phrase showing where and another showing when. Underline both phrases and circle each preposition.

Lesson moves

Hide a small object, then have partners place it in new spots and write a sentence describing each location.
Ask, “How does changing ‘under the table’ to ‘beside the table’ change the picture in your mind?”
Play phrase sort: students match preposition cards with noun phrase cards, then use each complete phrase in a sentence.
Have students write three clear directions from the classroom door to the library, circling each phrase that shows place or direction.

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