Download Making Words: A Lesson Plan for Building Vocabulary - Prof. Laurie Macgillivray and more Study notes Business Management and Analysis in PDF only on Docsity! 1 Making words example RDNG 7553 From : http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=150 Explain that you are going to make words using a set of letters that when combined will spell a "mystery word." Use the overhead to display the letters t, s, a, e, b, and k, and put the letter b aside. Have students do the same with the letters at their desks. Ask students if they can think of a three-letter word (using the given letters) that begins with the letter b and is something you use to hit a ball (bat). Place the letters a and t next to the b accordingly. Always have students read the new word after making it. You might also have them use the new word in a sentence to reinforce vocabulary. Next ask students to change the beginning letter to make a word that means what you did on the chair (sat). Then ask students to change the vowel to tell what you do when you put dishes on a table (set). Tell students to keep the s and e and put two letters in front to name what a baseball player runs to after hitting the ball (base). Ask students to make a three-letter word that tells what you do when you have a question (ask). Have students put a b in front to make a word that means enjoying the sun (bask). You might go through a few more examples using the word bask since this is likely a new vocabulary word for first and second graders. Explain that they are now going to make the "mystery word" by adding the last two letters to bask. If hints are needed, tell them that the word names something that you might carry things in (basket). To further reinforce the concept of manipulating letters to make different words, model the following examples and have students follow along with their own letter tiles. Use the letters n, t, p, e, and s to make the words pen, nest, net, pet, pest, step, and ten. The mystery word is spent. Use the letters n, t, r, s, p, and i to make the words tin, tip, spin, spit, rip, tips, and trip. The mystery word is print. Use the letters p, o, c, and h to make the words pop, cop, and hop. The mystery word is chop. 2 Use the letters m, l, p, u, and p to make the words pup, plum, up, pulp, and lump. The mystery word is plump. Making and Writing Words By Tim Rasinski Drawn from http://www.readingonline.org/articles/words/rasinski.html#cun92 Vowels a,a,i,o Consonants c,n,t,v,' 1 6 11 2 7 12 3 8 13 4 9 14 5 10 15 T-1 T-2 T-3 The teacher then either pronounces or gives clues to words, beginning with a few having only two or three letters and moving on to longer words: "In box number 1 write a two-letter word that means the opposite of out. [Students write the word in box 1.] Good. Now, words that contain in belong to a word family. In box 2 I'd like you to write a three-letter word that belongs to the in word family. Here's another clue: the word is a kind of metal. [Students write tin in box 2.] "Now, in boxes 3, 4, and 5 please write three words that belong to the an word family. Remember, all an words will rhyme and you can only use the letters listed in the consonant and vowel boxes." This sheet would now be partially completed: Making and Writing Words
