Prepared by: Haley Allen
Lesson Name: Learning Double Consonants
Topic of the Lesson: Double Consonants
Age Range/Grade Level/Content Area: Third Grade English Language Arts
Materials Required:
Several different passages of different difficulties
Time Required: 1 hour to 1.5 hours
TEKS or objectives: ELA Knowledge and Skills- Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonics. Students use the relationships between letters and sounds, spelling patterns, and morphological analysis to decode written English. Students are expected to:
(A) decode multisyllabic words in context and independent of context by applying common spelling patterns including:
(ii) doubling final consonants when adding an ending (e.g., hop to hopping)
Introduction/Purpose: Help students learn what double consonants are and how they are used so they can begin to recognize them while reading and writing
Learning Activities/Step-by-Step Procedures:
1.
Come up with words that contain double consonants
2.
List several of the words on the board as well as several words that do not contain double consonants
3.
Have the students tell you what they think a double consonant is
4.
Give them an easy to understand definition of a double consonant and a couple of examples
5.
Have them identify which of the words you wrote on the board are double consonants and which are not
6.
Have them tell you why they are double consonants and how they know
7.
After this you can give them some more words if you think they need more practice
Guided/Independent Practice:
1.
Give each student a reading passage or a short story according to their reading level
2.
Have them read through their passage/short story
3.
Have them write on a piece of notebook paper each of the double consonants they find
4.
Then have them underline the double consonant in the word
5.
Have them turn this in
6.
Give them more practice if you want or have them read silently
Closure/Summary: Students should now begin to recognize double consonants while reading and

writing
Assessment/Evaluation: Find one reading passage with at least 20 double consonants in it then give them about 15 minutes to read the passage then give them 30 minutes to find as many of the double consonants as they can . when the time is up have them turn them in.
Relevancy: This teaches students how to change the tense of a word and how the tense is determined