Lesson plans for the week of: January 27-31, 2014 Subject: Life Skills English I Teacher: Monica Goforth
Unit of Study: Syllable types; Latin roots; comprehension strategies; fluency
Daily Topics
Monday: Warm-Up Activity: Identify syllable types of given words-closed, open, or silent e
Introduce r-controlled syllable type; Latin roots: -chrom-, -chron-, -cise-, - claim-, -clud
Tuesday: Warm-Up Activity: Mark vowel sounds of given words as long or short using diacritical marks
Practice reading words with r-controlled syllable; sort words: -ar,- er, -ir, -or-, -ur; spelling patterns ver, per, and tur;
review syllable types-closed, open, silent e;
Latin roots: -chrom-, -chron-,
-cise-, - claim-, -clud
Wednesday: Warm-Up Activity: Generate examples of words with given syllable types-closed, open, or silent e
Practice writing words with r-controlled syllable; -er at end of words; VC/CV syllabication rule
Latin roots : -chrom-, -chron-,
-cise-, - claim-, -clud
Thursday: Warm-Up Activity: Divide given words into syllables by scooping
Sorting words with r-controlled vowels; double middle consonants; Latin roots: -chrom-, -chron-, -cise-, - claim-, clud
Friday: Warm-Up Activity: “Syllable Bingo”
Quiz on Latin roots; assessment on r-controlled vowels
In Class: (readings, activities, labs, projects, notes, homework, etc.)
Monday: Megawords-pages 48-50; PowerPoint on roots
Tuesday: Megawords-pages 51-53; worksheet on roots
Wednesday: Megawords-pages 54-56; Root Concentration game
Thursday: Megawords-pages 57-59; 61; Bingo game with roots
Friday: Megawords-pages 63-64 as assessment on r-controlled vowels
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