1. Topic-
Sing a Song!
 
2. Content-
Building new words, Homophones (which/witch), Idioms, Irregular past tense verbs
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1.Build new words with given phonograms
2.Identify homophones and their meaning
3.Idioms-Identify common idioms and their meaning
4. Identify irregular past tense verbs
 
4. Objectives-
1. Students build words using phonograms -ing, -ish, -itch, and -ich
2. Students identify common homophones and their meanings (which/witch)
3. Students learn what an Idiom is and explore "cut it out"
4. Students identify verbs that are regular (-ed) and irregular past tense verbs
 
5. Materials and Aids-
Language text books, language workbooks, pencils, idioms sheet, idioms book, crayon
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1.Discuss how to build new words by changing one letter. Building new words in word families with given phonograms
2. Homophones-what are they? Examples?
3. Idioms-Idioms story, read and discuss to introduce idioms...
 

B. Development-

1.how do we build new words, modeling
2.Homophones-defenition/examples
3. Idioms drawings in packet
 

C. Practice-

1.Building new words
2. Homophone Venn diagram
3. Idioms-story and idiom practice "cut it out" read/and draw
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Building new words
2. Idioms drawings (non-example and example)
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

Assist students individually as necessary. Clarify Idioms and help with understanding. Prompting for recall of homophones
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1.were they able to formulate new words with given phonograms
2. generate a list of homophones as a group (who is able, who is not?)
3. Idioms, since this is the first into. or idioms, do they understand what they are? Are they able to represent non-examples and examples.
 

G. Closure-

1.Share Idiom drawings with group
2. We will identify irregular past tense verbs in tomorrow's story, "Whale Song"
 
7. Evaluation-
Lesson assessments (Language assessments)
 

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