The lesson plan provides instructions for a lesson on suffixes, with the objectives being for students to read, tap, and spell words with vowel and consonant suffixes correctly 80% of the time. The lesson includes reviewing suffixes, practicing spelling words with -s and -es, building more words with suffixes, and having students add examples to their notebooks. Students are assigned homework practicing words with suffixes.

1. JUST WORDS
MARIA ANGALA, NBCT
JEFFERSON ACADEMY, WASHINGTON DC

2. FIRST FIVE!
• 1. Come in quietly and take your seat
• 2. Place materials on desk
• 3. Take out HW assignment
• 4. Write down HW assignment in
agenda book.
• 5. Begin “JUST START!”

3. JUST START! (5 MIN)
Open your Student Notebook 1. “Skywrite” these words
& turn to High Frequency/ with your finger while you
Sight Words Section. spell them orally. Do
High Frequency Words: three times for each
- toward – Jack ran toward word.
the bus. 2. Circle these new high
- two – The two glasses are frequency words in your
on the shelf. notebook.
- too – I will help too. 3. Add the sentences in
- also – I will help also. the High frequency/ Sight
Words section.
EXPLAIN: too means also
or very.
Now we have new HF
Wordcards up here…

4. OBJECTIVES:
• By the end of the lesson,
SWBAT:
• read, tap and spell out words
with vowel suffix & consonant
suffix
• …80% of the time as measured by a
progress check.

5. PRIDE SCHOLARS, HIT IT!!
• Vocabulary,
vocabulary how
many words do you
know?
• We’ll have power to
read in Just Words
class
• Here we go!!

6. LET’S REVIEW! – SUFFIX
• ASK: Can anyone
remind me what new
concept we learned
yesterday? Suffixes –s
& -es
• ASK: Can somebody
explain to me what
this is about?
• EXPLAIN: Remember
we said that we add
–s and –es to a word
to make it plural
(more than one)

7. SPELLING PRACTICE HIDE
• On your Dry Erase Tablets. • Remind us, when
We are going to practice do we use to?
using these homophones Too? Two?
correctly in sentences: to, GREAT!
two, too as we’ve • Page 112 of
learned them in Ms. Instructor’s
Westbrook & Ms.Tatums Manual.
classes. Are you ready?
• You do not have to write
the entire sentence, just
to, too or two.

8. TEACHER BUILD WORDS HIDE
• EXPLAIN: There are two • WORD: stamps
kinds of suffixes: vowel • READ: stamp-stamps
suffixes and consonant • SAY: I have a stamp. I
suffixes. have two stamps.
• DO: Put up the –s/-es • DO: Illustrate, and explain
soundcards. Which is that the suffix makes it
the consonant suffix? plural….and sometimes it
Why? Which is the can mean an action
vowel suffix? Why? word.
• ASK: If you’re happy and
you know it stomp your
feet…he stomps his feet!

9. TEACH SPELLING
• USE: Magnetic Journals • Now, we will use the
• ASK: Let’s spell bugs. blank yellow tile for the
What is the baseword? suffix s.
Suffix? Return the tiles • WORD: brags
while spelling bugs. …baseword? Suffix?
What is the baseword? • WORD: bells what is the
Suffix? baseword, it has a
• WORD: spell pens bonus letter! Suffix?
…baseword? Suffix? • WORD: trenches
baseword? Suffix? We
will use the blank tile for
the suffix –es too.

10. STUDENT NOTEBOOK ENTRY
• Open Student • Recall the vocabulary
Notebook (Spelling words that you have
Rules Section). learned from your social
• Add an example of a studies or science classes.
word with an –es suffix • Who can give me a good
in the vowel suffix page example? GREAT JOB!
• /es/ -boxes
• Add an example of a
word with an –s suffix in
the consonant suffix
page
• /s/ -rocks, /z/ pens

11. HOMEWORK
• 1. Write these
words three times
in different colors,
and
• 2. Use these words
in a sentence:
• munches
• grins
• sniffs
• grinds
• slams

12. DID WE MEET THE OBJECTIVES:
• By the end of the lesson,
SWBAT:
• read, tap and spell out words
with vowel suffix & consonant
suffix
• …80% of the time as measured
by a progress check.

13. YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
• You deserve
a Chimpan-
CHEER!!!

14. LAST FIVE!
• 1. Homework in homework folder
• 2. Notes in folders
• 3. Materials put away
• 4. Clean desk and area
• 5. Line up when instructed