Word Families
Larry Mayer
Introduction
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Objectives
Activities
Assessment
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Introduction
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Subject:  Language Arts
Topic: Word families
Grade Level: third grade
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Standards Addressed
 

Third Grade
Language Arts:  word analysis, fluency and systematic vocabulary development

decoding and word recognition
standard 1.1 know and use complex word families  when reading to decode unfamiliar words
1.2 decode regular multisyllabic words
1.3 read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately with appropraite pacing, intonation and expression.
 
 
 

 
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Instructional Objectives
  • students will identify advanced word families
  • students will transfer knowledge of basic word families to more advanced word families (example, light to lightening)
  • students will name members of word families from memory rapidly
  • students will decode multisyllabic words based on knowledge of basic and advanced word family recognition


Student Activities
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Introductory Activity
 
 

  • do a pretest the day prior to the lesson which will be a two minute brainstorm of the word families to be taught
  • brainstorm as a class sion, ture, tive and tion word endings in groups of four
  • read words brainstormed to a partners
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Enabling Activity(ies)

English Practice.com
"English Practice" is an easy to use site with weekly lessons, games, chats, and cultural lessons. All activites are accesible from the home page. There are also contests, weekly e-mail lessons, and karaoke activities.
http://www.englishpractice.com/index_frames.asp?fromloc=http://www.englishpractice.com/b32/b32lessonmenu.htm
[Visual Content: | Approx. Grade Level: 6-9+ | Contributor: Kirstin Miller]

English Space
"English Space" is a site set up as a game in outer space, rich graphics and activities for beginning English learners. Membership is free, after registering you are sent on travels, choosing activities such as memory tricks, parts of speech, and word sorting. The site is wonderful for children, it's set up as a video game. Versions are offered in English, Japanese, and Spanish. Younger children may need help navigating the site.
http://www.englishspace.ort.org/launchpad/tour_en.asp | Source: World ORT
[Visual Content:  | Approx. Grade Level: 3-9 | Contributor: Kirstin Miller]
 

EnglishForAmerica.com
                      "Fill in the Blank Exercises," "Matching Exercises," and Guessing Games"
                      for learning English.
                       http://www englishforamerica.com
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    • correlate Spanish endings with similar endings in English
    • with same partner see if 5 words from each word family category can be recalled without looking  at written work.  Partners will work together to come up with a written list.
    • each group will compete to see how many words they can write from memory in a given time (2 minutes)
    • each group will review words and add new words to their master list before repeating the recall contest.nsert back to the top
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    Culminating Activity
    • each group will review words and add new words to their master list before repeating the recall contest
    • students will transfer lists to the student web site.
    • students will present a power point demonstration for open house--yeah baby!
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    Assessment 

    Students will take a test on Funbrain.com.
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    Results
     
     
     
    names pre-test  # of words 
    sion      tion       ture         tive    		 post-test 
    Cesar
    Manuel
    Nancy
    Mackynzie
    Humberto
    J.T.
    Rebecka
    Fabiola
    Jeff
    Francisco
    Manuel
    Natasha
    Ashley
    Jose

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    Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

    Introductory Activity
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    School Name Esparto Elementary School
    School Location Esparto, California
    Your Name and e-mail addressLarry Mayer, reyam46@hotmail.com
    Last Revised: 3/17/01(insert and update last revision date every time you work on this page.)