LESSON: Literacy- Grammar

CONTEXTUAL DETAILS
Year Level: 5 and 6 Estimated Duration of Activity: 50 minutes
Location: Classroom

LEARNING AREA: Literacy

TOPIC: Transitive and Intransitive verbs.

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: Jolly Grammar- Transitive and intransitive verbs worksheet and prior lesson.

CURRICULUM LINKS:
Year 6
Expressing and developing ideas
Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses
and a range of adverb groups/phrases (ACELA1523 - Scootle )
Elaborations: knowing that adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide important details
about a happening(for example, ‘At nine o'clock the buzzer rang loudly throughout the school’) or state (for
example, ‘The tiger is a member of the cat family’)

LEARNING INTENTION
 Recognise the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES
 What is a direct object in a sentence?
 Identify action verbs that have a direct object as transitive verbs.
 Identify sentences with no object.
 Identify sentences that use intransitive verbs.

PREPARATION/ORGANISATION
PROCESS RESOURCES & TIME
Introduction:
Show Transitive vs Intransitive video Youtube: Transitive and Intransitive video.

Recap:

All sentences must have a subject: this is who or
what is doing the action verb.
Sentences can also have an object.
This is who or what is receiving the verb action.
Transitive and intransitive verbs worksheet.
Individual task
Differentiation: work with students in a small group
who require further direct instruction.

Direct object is an object that receives the action of

the verb. It answers the question of whom or what?

Ie. Sharks have many teeth: direct object is teeth.

Identify who or what is receiving the verb action
Ie Shark (s) have (v) teeth (o)
An object is always a noun or pronoun answering
the question of who or what does the action.
If the verb has an object then it is transitive.
Verb + object = transitive verb.

Go through worksheet as a class.

These are all transitive verbs.
Sometimes sentences may not have an object, just
have a subject and a verb.
I.e Anna paints beautifully.
Anna (s) paints(v) beautifully (adverb)

There is no object in this sentence.

The verb has no object, is it an intransitive verb.
Verb+ no object= intransitive verb.

Students Practice
Underline each action verb
Circle the subject of the sentence:
Colour the object.
Is the verb transitive or intransitive
(direct object) transitive
(indirect object) intransitive

Write on the white board

Adjective (word that describes a noun/pronoun). 1. The knight defended the castle.
2. They arrived in Australia in 1928.
Conclusion: 3. He worked hard.
Share sentences. 4. We studied birds in my science class.
5. The squirrel feasted on birdseed.
6. We read some interesting facts.
7. I feel happy today.
8. I feel hot.