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📖 4th Grade · ELAL.4.1cUnit 7: Grammar & conventions

Modal auxiliaries

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🎯 Objective: Students use can, may, must to show conditions.

Lesson outline

  1. Class rules with can, may, must.
  2. Practice.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: two modals.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.4.1c

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use relative pronouns and adverbs, progressive tenses, modal verbs and prepositional phrases
  • Write complete sentences; fix fragments and run-ons

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 4th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & conventions”

  1. Relative pronouns and adverbs
  2. Progressive verb tenses
  3. Modal auxiliaries
  4. Prepositional phrases
  5. Fragments and run-ons
  6. Commas and capitalization

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