Lesson Plan for Groundhog Day Poem
Assessed Need: I have noticed that the students in my classroom need to work on:
/ing/ word family
Standards:
McREL LA Std.5.I.5: Uses basic elements of phonetic analysis to decode unknown
words
Text I will use to demonstrate the strategy I plan to teach is:
Language chart poem - ”The Groundhog”
Materials needed for this lesson are:
Language chart, /ing/ sentence strip, large letter cards d,k,p,r,s,w to make new
words, identical
small letter cards for students
Colored highlighting tape
Purpose of the lesson is:
Locate /ing/ words in poem
Develop new words using consonants
SEQUENCE OF FOCUS LESSON
Activate background knowledge by asking about Groundhog Day and shadows
experiment
MODEL read aloud twice and invite students to read along
Parts to emphasize
Put tape over /ing/ in thing
Discuss vocabulary
SCAFFOLD ask students to place highlighting tape over /ing/ words
Prompt as needed by repeating word slowly, chunking word to focus on /ing/
Questions to ask
What do we know about Groundhog Day?
What new words can we make for our new word family? - use letter cards to
support their answers
COACH
Students practice with partners
Tell your neighbor the words in the poem that end with /ing/
Write words in Word Family journal
ASSESS
These are the students who need extra support
Collect notes on Jose, Eileen, and Mark
Independent Practice
Students will practice using the strategy during activity time
Students will use letter cards to make words from the /ing/ family and write them
into their Word
Families journal on the /ing/ page.