Char Summary: Introduce helping verbs & discuss/illustrate purpose in sentences. Read wordlist & make sentences, explain helping verb purpose.

Objective: Students will be able to identify and explain the purpose of helping verbs.

Materials:
-Word list
-Example sentences

Introduce the topic of helping verbs by explaining that their job is to help the main verb in a sentence to express tense or mood.

Activity 1: Have students individually read the word list and identify the helping verbs.

Word List:
1. will
2. would
3. may
4. might
5. can
6. could
7. shall
8. should
9. must
10. ought

Activity 2: Have students make sentences to illustrate the use of helping verbs with the main verb. For example:

I could run the marathon.

Activity 3: Ask students to explain the purpose of each helping verb in their example sentences. For example:

In the sentence "I could run the marathon," the helping verb could indicates possibility.