This document outlines the lesson plan for a vocabulary class. It includes directions for student activities like a "Do Now," vocabulary word instruction led by the teacher, student-led word practice, and a homework assignment. The objective is for students to be able to read, write and understand words with consonant suffixes by the end of the lesson. The document provides structure and steps for the class to build vocabulary skills through interactive activities.

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 “Do Now”

3. DO NOW: Just Start! (5 min)
• 1. Get your Student WORD: bid
Notebook, open to MEANING: offers to do
Vocabulary Section or pay for something
page ___. SENTENCE: We will get
six bids for this job.
• 2. Add the word: bid
3. Copy this on the
Demonstrations page
(Vocabulary section):

4. OBJECTIVES:
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
• tap, read, skywrite and mark up 8 out
of 10 words with consonant suffix
• …as measured by quick checks.

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. TEACHER BUILD WORDS: hide
• SAY: Let’s see how smart we are
with letters and sounds! Who • Let’s inspect other words:
wants to volunteer to be the drill • WORD: lacks
leader? (letter-keyword)
• SAY: Excellent!!
• Do: meaning, sentence,
tap, blend, digraph, bonus
letters, closed syllable,
mark up, baseword, suffix
• SAY: Just like what engineers do
at work, let’s inspect this word:
bids • WORD: stacks
• ASK: Baseword? Suffix? Who can • Do: meaning, sentence,
remember the meaning of this tap, blend, digraph, bonus
word? (2 Trojan bucks!)
letters, closed syllable,
• ASK: Now, how do we use this in mark up, baseword, suffix
an everyday sentence? (2 Trojan
bucks)
• ASK: tap, blend, digraph, bonus
letters, mark up

7. WORD TALK hide
• READ WORDS: • SAY: Find and mark words
• Ask students to tap & with a consonant suffix.
read five new words What is the baseword?
from the flashcards What does the s say?
• Quickly read others Select a word to define
without tapping and use in a sentence.
• DISPLAY WORDS:
• Display selection of
word cards, have
students mark them up

8. STUDENT BUILD WORDS hide
• Magnetic Journals • DICTATION/ DRY ERASE
• Student leader using • /n/, /r/, /v/
word cards • brisk, skill, shrimp
• Review 3 sounds • banks, dunks, drops
• Dictate 3 words, tap • toward, two, also
& spell on MJ, spell • stops to rest
orally
• with two flags
• toward the docks
• Underline baseword,
circle suffix, mark closed
syllables

9. Did we meet the OBJECTIVES?
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
• tap, read, skywrite and mark up 8 out
of 10 words with consonant suffix
• …as measured by quick checks.

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

11. HOMEWORK
• 1. Write these phrases
three times in different
colors, and
• 2. Use these phrases in
a sentence:
• glass of milk
• brush and floss
• off which bed
• what skill
• cross which path

12. 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