week 6 - assignment 1

Candidate’s Name: Malka Wallersin

Grade Level: 1

Title of the lesson: Word pairs

Length of the lesson: 30 min

Central focus Phonics and decoding

Knowledge of students to inform teaching Students are reading on grade level and can comprehend sentances.

Common Core State Standards   CCSS RF 1.3 (Reading: Foundational Skills, Phonics and Word Recognitions) 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Support literacy development through language (academic language) Recognize and decode similar words.

Learning objectives Students will recognize commonly used words. Students will be able to read word pairs accurately. Students can write their own word pairs.

Formal and informal assessment Students will receive a keychain ring with different word pairs and they will read it aloud to the teacher and read it to an adult for homework.

Instructional procedure: Most of Mary’s mistakes were visual errors. Therefore in this lesson i will focus on common visual errors using word pairs. On the smartboard i will post many different word pairs in random order. The teacher will circle a word pair in the same color example : whale and while. She will then ask the students if they can find their own word pair.  Students will then be grouped in pairs and have to find the words that are visually similar from the smartboard list. They will write each pair using a different color marker or crayon.

Instructional resources and materials Smartboard Markers Crayons Paper Word ring

Reflection I think this lesson helps students recognize the difference between word that are similar in spelling yet different in meaning. This activity allows students to practice reading and writing common visual miscues.