Super stories: The Abandoned House: verbs and adverbs

Educational value

• Illustrates how verbal choices and image choices impact on the construction of meaning in a narrative text.
• Requires students to read a narrative text, and then change verbs and add adverbs to make the text more effective.
• Illustrates how the selection of images can increase the sense of horror in a narrative text.
• Provides feedback to students on the specific impact of different choices.
• Includes an option to print the final story.
• Includes an option to print a new story to edit and improve using the same strategies.

Year level

2; 3; 4; 5; 6

Topics Text structure Adverbial phrases Adverbs Verbs Word meanings Attitudes Editing Text types Linguistic modality Tense (Grammar) Text purpose