Project Read March 28-Apr. 1
Monday---Unit 14 Short U assessment
Unit 15 Lesson 1: Syllables
Teacher will display worksheet 15-13 with a picture of a jelly bean and an elephant on the sheet and will ask students what these objects are? Jelly bean, elephant
In this lesson you will learn about jelly bean words and elephant words.
Below the picture of a jelly bean display the following words: hop, frog, chin, when, quit. Students read the words with teacher guidance. Each word has one “talking vowel.” When the vowel talks in the first word it says the short o sound. Teacher underlines the vowel in each word and writes a v to stand for vowel under the underline.
These words are called jelly bean words. Jelly bean words have one talking vowel and when one vowel sound words are unlocked you tap out each sound and sweep the word together. It’s just like eating a candy jelly bean. A jelly bean is small. You put the whole thing in your mouth, chew, and swallow.
Display the following word under the picture of an elephant: rabbit.
The word under the elephant is called an elephant word because it has more than one talking vowel. Teacher underlines the talking vowels and marks them with a v.
Practice all 5 short vowel sounds: a, e, I, o, u.
Teacher will write the word win on the board. Students will help locate the talking vowel, underline the talking vowel, mark it with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will write the word traffic on the board. Students will read the word, help locate the talking vowels, underline the talking vowels, mark them with a v, and determine if this word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will model with worksheet 15-7 how to blend to read words, underline talking vowels, mark them with a v, and determine if the words are jelly bean or elephant words.
This worksheet will be sent home for reading homework.
Tuesday
Unit 15 Lesson 1: Syllables
Teacher will display worksheet 15-13 with a picture of a jelly bean and an elephant on the sheet and will ask students what these objects are? Jelly bean, elephant

In this lesson you will learn about jelly bean words and elephant words.
Below the picture of a jelly bean display the following words: hop, frog, chin, when, quit. Students read the words with teacher guidance. Each word has one “talking vowel.” When the vowel talks in the first word it says the short o sound. Teacher underlines the vowel in each word and writes a v to stand for vowel under the underline.
These words are called jelly bean words. Jelly bean words have one talking vowel and when one vowel sound words are unlocked you tap out each sound and sweep the word together. It’s just like eating a candy jelly bean. A jelly bean is small. You put the whole thing in your mouth, chew, and swallow.
Display the following word under the picture of an elephant: rabbit.
The word under the elephant is called an elephant word because it has more than one talking vowel. Teacher underlines the talking vowels and marks them with a v.
Teacher will write the word win on the board. Students will help locate the talking vowel, underline the talking vowel, mark it with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will write the word traffic on the board. Students will read the word, help locate the talking vowels, underline the talking vowels, mark them with a v, and determine if this word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will display worksheet 15-7. Students will practice blending to read words, discuss the talking vowels, underlining them, and marking them with a v, and determining if these words are jelly bean or elephant words.
Teacher will write the word fresh on the board. Students will help locate the talking vowel, underline the talking vowel, mark it with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will tell students that a word with one talking vowel is a jelly bean word. What is the talking vowel in the word fresh? E Discuss the sound of the e in this word.
Teacher will write the word rabbit on the board. Students will read the word and help locate the talking vowels, underline the talking vowels, mark them with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will tell students that a word with 2 or more talking vowels are elephant words.
Students will cut out words on worksheet 15-11 and will categorize the one syllable words under the jelly bean and 2 syllable words under the elephant on worksheet 15-13. This worksheet will be sent home for reading homework.

Wednesday
Unit 15 Lesson 1: Syllables
Teacher will display worksheet 15-13 with a picture of a jelly bean and an elephant on the sheet and will ask students what these objects are? Jelly bean, elephant
In this lesson you will learn about jelly bean words and elephant words.
Below the picture of a jelly bean display the following words: hop, frog, chin, when, quit. Students read the words with teacher guidance. Each word has one “talking vowel.” When the vowel talks in the first word it says the short o sound. Teacher underlines the vowel in each word and writes a v to stand for vowel under the underline.
These words are called jelly bean words. Jelly bean words have one talking vowel and when one vowel sound words are unlocked you tap out each sound and sweep the word together. It’s just like eating a candy jelly bean. A jelly bean is small. You put the whole thing in your mouth, chew, and swallow.
Display the following word under the picture of an elephant: rabbit.
The word under the elephant is called an elephant word because it has more than one talking vowel. Teacher underlines the talking vowels and marks them with a v.
Teacher will write the word win on the board. Students will help locate the talking vowel, underline the talking vowel, mark it with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will write the word traffic on the board. Students will read the word, help locate the talking vowels, underline the talking vowels, mark them with a v, and determine if this word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will display worksheet 15-7. Students will practice blending to read words, discuss the talking vowels, underlining them, and marking them with a v, and determining if these words are jelly bean or elephant words.
Teacher will write the word fresh on the board. Students will help locate the talking vowel, underline the talking vowel, mark it with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will tell students that a word with one talking vowel is a jelly bean word. What is the talking vowel in the word fresh? E Discuss the sound of the e in this word.
Teacher will write the word rabbit on the board. Students will read the word and help locate the talking vowels, underline the talking vowels, mark them with a v, and determine if the word is a jelly bean or elephant word.
Teacher will tell students that a word with 2 or more talking vowels are elephant words.

Rabbit is a two syllable word because it has 2 talking vowels. Like an elephant, you have to cut it up to eat it. A word has as many parts (syllables) as it has talking vowels. The word rabbit can be cut into two parts: rab, bit.
Each part is a syllable because it has a talking vowel.
Teacher will display worksheet 15-13 done yesterday. Students will practice reading words and discussing how many talking vowels and why each word is a jelly bean (1 talking vowel) or elephant word (2 talking vowels).
Teacher will demonstrate the definition of a syllable with the following hand movements: A syllable is a word (hands extended 12 inches apart) or part of a word (hands break an imaginary word) with one talking vowel. (The first and second finger on the left hand for a v. The thumb, index finger and second finger of right hand are placed inside the v as the fingers are bounced together to illustrate a talking vowel.)
Students practice the definition with teacher.
Teacher will display worksheet 15-17 under the document camera. With teacher guidance students problem solve the combinations on the worksheet
“Is it a syllable.” Teacher will have students make the categories syllable and not a syllable on notebook paper and place the combinations from this worksheet inside the categories.
Thursday
Unit 15 Lesson 1: Syllables Review
Unit 15 Lesson 2: Steps for dividing words into syllables
Class will review how many talking vowels, how many syllables, is it a jelly bean word (1 talking vowel 1syllable) or elephant word (2 talking vowels 2 syllables) by reading words on the following worksheets under the document camera and discussing how many talking vowels, syllables and what kind of word it is: worksheet 15-7 and 15-13.
Teacher will also display worksheet 15-17 under the document camera and students will review whether letter combinations are syllables or not. They are syllables if they contain a vowel and are not syllables if there is no vowel.
Teacher will display the word admit on worksheet 15-21 and ask students what kind of word is this? Elephant word or 2 syllable word.
When unlocking elephant words you have to cut them up into bite sizes.
Each bite (syllable) has to have a vowel.
Teacher will model how to cut the word admit on the worksheet into syllables by doing the following steps:
1.
Underline the talking vowels and mark them with a v under the underlining. This is to find the number of syllables.

2.
Swoop between the vowels and pull down the consonants between the vowels. This means that the teacher will place c’s for consonants under the 2 consonants between the talking vowels. This is to find the cutting pattern.
3.
Divide the word into syllables between the 2 consonants. Read one syllable at a time to read the word.
Read the sentence at the bottom of the worksheet page and discuss what the word admit means.
Teacher will display worksheet 15-23, 15-24 under the document camera and will provide students with this worksheet also. Students will apply the 3 steps from above in this lesson plan to divide words into syllables and read the words and sentences on this worksheet. Discuss what the words mean also. This worksheet will be sent home with students for reading homework.
Friday
Unit 15 Lesson 1: Syllables Review
Unit 15 Lesson 2: Steps for dividing words into syllables Review
Class will review how many talking vowels, how many syllables, is it a jelly bean word (1 talking vowel 1syllable) or elephant word (2 talking vowels 2 syllables) by reading words on the following worksheets under the document camera and discussing how many talking vowels, syllables and what kind of word it is: worksheet 15-7 and 15-13.
Teacher will also display worksheet 15-17 under the document camera and students will review whether letter combinations are syllables or not. They are syllables if they contain a vowel and are not syllables if there is no vowel.
Teacher will display the worksheets 15-21, 15-23, 24 under the document camera to review the steps in dividing words into syllables and reading the words then:
1.
Underline the talking vowels and mark them with a v under the underlining. This is to find the number of syllables.
2.
Swoop between the vowels and pull down the consonants between the vowels. This means that the teacher will place c’s for consonants under the 2 consonants between the talking vowels. This is to find the cutting pattern.
3.
Divide the word into syllables between the 2 consonants. Read one syllable at a time to read the word.
Read all sentences also and discuss what each word means.

Class will complete spelling test over the following words: zigzag, basket, until, tennis, upset, plastic, cannot, magnet, chipmunk, tablet.