Lesson Overview

Topic: Modifiers
Daily Length: 50 minutes
# Days: Two
Teacher Planning and Preparation (include UDL considerations and planning for ELL and
special education students)
ELL: learn about modifiers at a slower pace and with more basic sentences, play a smaller game
with more assistance in reading
Special education: Have a helper with them if they need assistance in reading, play a modified
game
Student Objectives (for this lesson)
TSW be able to identify and correctly use modifiers.
Common Core Lesson Focus Standards
7.1.c: Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and
dangling modifiers.
Materials/Equipment
Whiteboards, markers, erasers
Worksheets
Pre-assessment
Give a worksheet asking students to underline modifiers and say whether or not they are in the
correct position. A definition and example of properly, displaced, and dangling modifiers will be
at the top.
Anticipatory Set/Context Setting
Working on editing a narrative essay or learning about sentence structure (types of phrases,
clauses, sentences. Components of sentences, etc)
Development/Procedures
Day one: Drill=pre-assessment (10-15 mins), show video about modifiers (10 mins), start game
where a sentence is written on the board and students must work in teams to identify and
categorize the modifier, explain after each question (30 mins)
Day two: continue game (30+ mins)
Transition
Connect to current unit (writing=find and identify misplaced modifiers in own writing,
grammar=write grammatically correct sentences using modifiers)

Summary/Closure
Explain in context why modifiers are important, show examples of writing enhanced by correctly
used modifiers and clouded by incorrectly placed modifiers
Assessment (formative/summative)
Activity similar to game where students are given examples of writing and must identify the
modifier and either move or tell that its correctly placed (10-15 mins)
Homework/Enrichment
Half-sheet modifier practice where students have to write an example of a correctly placed
modifier, a misplaced one, and a dangling one