Welcome to our first blog post in our series of
“Filling Your Teacher Toolbox!”
“Filling Your Teacher Toolbox!”
Are you ready for your first tool????
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Your first tool is how to teach RELATIVE ADVERBS
while keeping it simple!
while keeping it simple!
Before we begin, we want to give you a disclaimer. We are very aware that Relative Adverbs can be very detailed, such as relative clauses, prepositions, etc… For the sake of teaching Relative Adverbs to fourth graders, we have simplified the concept to what we consider, appropriate for their developmental level.
With that being said, let’s get started!
We started teaching Relative Adverbs with this bright and beautiful anchor chart. Anchor charts are a great tool for students to reference throughout the unit. We love how it reaches our visual learners!
Here’s a few tips for teaching Relative Adverbs!
Here’s “The Test” for relative adverbs…
Where: Can you plug the words “in which” or “at which”?
Example: I went to the school where I attended elementary school.
Test: I went to the school “at which” I attended elementary school.
Non example: Where have you been all day?
Test: “At which” have you been all day
When: Can you plug in the words “on which” or “in which”?
Example: I like the time of day when my students go home!
Test: I like the time of day “in which” my students go home!
Non example: When is it time for lunch?
Test: “On which” is it time for lunch?
Why: Can you plug in the words “for which” or “the reason”?
Example: I needed to explain why I was late for work.
Test: I needed to explain “the reason” I was late for work.
Non example: Why do you cry all of the time?
Test: “The reason” do you cry all of the time?
In our experience, we have found that students tend to create relative adverb sentences incorrectly because they use them as the “5 W’s.”
Because our Task Cards that we used today were Monster Themed, we thought, let’s go with it! We love a good theme! (One of us more than the other… but anyways…) We started out by making these adorable Monster Ballot Boxes! These monster ballot boxes are a great idea because the task cards required students to write the number of the task card on either Monster A’s eyeball jar, Monster B’s eyeball jar or Monster C’s. Whichever monster had the most eyeballs at the end, won! As students finished, they put their name in the Monster Ballot Box that they thought won. Here’s why this was so amazing… There were 2 students that picked A. The rest picked B (which was correct). I was able to go to the two students that got the wrong answer, find their mistakes and review those task cards with them on a one on one basis. Talk about an easy red flag, right!? I plan on doing more Ballot Boxes in the future!!!! Such an easy tool!
We also made some cute eyeball cookies! The kids loved them!
Not to mention our fun Photo Booth!
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Task Cards:
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