Prepositional Phrases

Fifth Grade Reading

Prepositions are all around us. This teacher-approved lesson plan will help students identify prepositional
phrases through a number of engaging reading exercises.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify prepositions and prepositional phrases.

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Reading Comprehension: The Secret Garden preposition
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Introduction (10 minutes)

Explain to the class that a preposition is a word that specifies location. Some examples of prepositions
are "near," "above," and "before." Note that prepositions can also indicate location in time. A
prepositional phrase is the combination of a preposition and its object. In the sentence "The dog is
sitting near the tree," the prepositional phrase is "near the tree."
On the board, write three sentences that include prepositions.
Ask students to copy the sentences down, circle the prepositions, underline the prepositional phrases,
and draw an arrow from the preposition to its object.
Give students 5-10 minutes to complete this warm-up.
Go over the answers.
Explain that this lesson will involve finding prepositional phrases in a multi-paragraph written sample.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (10 minutes)

Hand out copies of the Reading Comprehension: The Secret Garden worksheet to students.
Model the process of reading the text on the worksheet using your own copy.Read up to the first semicolon.
Underline the following prepositional phrases: "for Mary Lennox," "like the others," "in her tapestried room," and
"upon the hearth."
Slowly circle the prepositions. Then, draw arrows from the prepositions to their objects. Make sure to explain
your actions as you go.

Guided Practice (15 minutes)

Have students go through the passage and mark up the prepositional phrases that they find.
As they work, highlight the phrases on your own copy. Pace yourself so that you finish highlighting after
15 minutes.
Have students stop working once you're done.
Mark up all the sentences you highlighted to reveal the answers for the exercise, and have students

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 correct their own passages.

Independent working time (15 minutes)

Have students re-read the excerpt and answer the questions on the worksheet.

Differentiation

Enrichment: Students who complete their worksheet early can be given the challenge of using the four
vocabulary words (tapestried, hearth, moor, and heather) in sentences on the backs of their worksheets.
Remind them to make sure that the sentences contain context clues for understanding the word.
Support: Have struggling students focus on circling the prepositions in the passage. They can underline
and draw arrows if there's enough time remaining, but their goal should just be to find the prepositions
before time is up.

Assessment (10 minutes)

Circulate the room during Independent Working Students to identify and help struggling students. Keep
an eye out for students who seem to need an extra challenge.
Return to your worksheet and camera. Ask students to share their answers as you reveal the correct
answer for each question.

Review and closing (5 minutes)

Go over the definitions of "preposition" and "prepositional" phrase once again.

Allow students to ask questions and give comments about the lesson content.

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 The Secret
Garde n
Hodgson Burnet
et

In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, a young orphan, is living with her uncle in his England
n c
country house. Mary had been living in India, where she never got fresh air or exercise.

Chapter V - The Cry in the Corridor

At first each day which passed by for Mary Lennox was exactly like the others. Every morning
she awoke in her tapestried room and found Martha kneeling upon the hearth building her fire;
every morning she ate her breakfast in the nursery which had nothing amusing in it; and after
each breakfast she gazed out of the window across to the huge moor which seemed to spread out
on all sides and climb up to the sky, and after she had stared for a while she realized that if she did
not she
out go would have to stay in and do nothing—and so she went out.
She did not know that this was the best thing she could
have done, and she did not know that, when she began to
walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the
avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself
stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from
the moor. She ran only to make herself warm, and she hated
the wind which rushed at her face and roared and held her
back as if it were some giant she could not see. But the big
breaths of rough fresh air blown over the heather filled her
lungs with something which was good for her whole thin body
and whipped some red color into her cheeks and brightened
her dull eyes when she did not know anything about it.

Vocabulary
Circle the correct meaning of the word
Why?
tapestried Circle the correct answer
A. attic corner
B. decorated with cloth wall hangings Why did Mary go outside?
C. gloomy and dark A. She liked to run
D. bright and merry B. It was too hot inside
hearth C. It was too cold inside
A. cushion D. She had nothing else to do.
B. wooden bench Why did Mary run?
C. fireproof rug
D. front part of a fireplace A. She wanted to get warm.
B. She was in a hurry to get to breakfast.
moor C. She heard a scary sound.
A. high, open land
D. She had to find the garden.
B. snowy mountaintop
C. beach on the ocean Why was going outside good for Mary?
D. green valley A. It made her think clearly.
heather B. She could get away from Martha.
A. swamp grass C. It made her stronger and healthier.
B. sand dunes D. She could see her uncle
C. bush with purple flowers
D. flat land

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 The Secret
Garde n
Hodgson Burnet
et

In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, a young orphan, is living with her uncle in his England
n c
country house. Mary had been living in India, where she never got fresh air or exercise.

Chapter V - The Cry in the Corridor

At first each day which passed by for Mary Lennox was exactly like the others. Every morning
she awoke in her tapestried room and found Martha kneeling upon the hearth building her fire;
every morning she ate her breakfast in the nursery which had nothing amusing in it; and after
each breakfast she gazed out of the window across to the huge moor which seemed to spread out
on all sides and climb up to the sky, and after she had stared for a while she realized that if she did
not she
out go would have to stay in and do nothing—and so she went out.
She did not know that this was the best thing she could
have done, and she did not know that, when she began to
walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the
avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself
stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from
the moor. She ran only to make herself warm, and she hated
the wind which rushed at her face and roared and held her
back as if it were some giant she could not see. But the big
breaths of rough fresh air blown over the heather filled her
lungs with something which was good for her whole thin body
and whipped some red color into her cheeks and brightened
her dull eyes when she did not know anything about it.

Vocabulary
Circle the correct meaning of the word
Why?
tapestried Circle the correct answer
A. attic corner
B. decorated with cloth wall hangings Why did Mary go outside?
C. gloomy and dark A. She liked to run
D. bright and merry B. It was too hot inside
hearth C. It was too cold inside
A. cushion D. She had nothing else to do.
B. wooden bench Why did Mary run?
C. fireproof rug
D. front part of a fireplace A. She wanted to get warm.
B. She was in a hurry to get to breakfast.
moor C. She heard a scary sound.
A. high, open land
D. She had to find the garden.
B. snowy mountaintop
C. beach on the ocean Why was going outside good for Mary?
D. green valley A. It made her think clearly.
heather B. She could get away from Martha.
A. swamp grass C. It made her stronger and healthier.
B. sand dunes D. She could see her uncle
C. bush with purple flowers
D. flat land

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