What a mess! Read about Lilly-Ann's birthday cupcake surprise and work on grammar skills at the same time. Four lengthy paragraphs provide kids with many opportunities to find and circle adverbs. They note the ways that adverbs come in handy in different contexts.

Concepts

adverbs, parts of speech, Grammar

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Include in your language arts assessment or as part of a grammar packet for kids to complete between lessons
• Have kids write a story about a time when they tried to prepare a birthday surprise for another person, using as many adverbs as possible to vary their sentence structure

Classroom Considerations

• Contains some color, but should print and copy fine in black-and-white

Pros

• A good way for kids to practice context clues and grammatical skills in one activity
• Provides an answer key for straightforward assessment

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.2.5.b L.2.6 L.3.1.a L.3.1.g