Lesson Plan: Unfamiliar Multisyllabic Words

Subject: ELA- Reading
Grade: 5
Lesson Objective: To read unfamiliar multisyllabic words in and out of context
Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.3.A- Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.
Materials:
Starter:
Say:
- When you come to a word that you do not know when you are reading, what do you do? (Allow the students to answer.)
Main:
Say:
- We all find words that we do not know when we are reading. There are different ways that we can figure out a word that we do not know.
- You can sound the word out. You are reading books that are harder and longer now and sounding out a word is not as easy as it used to be!
- You should start by figuring out the syllable patterns. You know that every syllable has a vowel sound.
- The different syllable patterns are closed syllables and open syllables.
- A closed syllable ends with a consonant and usually has a short vowel sound. For example, plan-et.
- An open syllable ends with a long vowel sound. For example, pa-per.
- In addition to the syllables in a word, you should think about the affixes. An affix is added to the beginning or end of a root word to form different words.
- For example, the root word scope can be changed to microscope or telescope by adding different affixes.
- Now, you are going to be doing a worksheet so that you can practice reading difficult words. You will read the paragraph. There are words that are underlined in the paragraph, those are the difficult words.
- After you have read the whole paragraph and tried the hard words, you are going to find a partner and take turns reading the list of words at the bottom of the worksheet to each other.
- Does anyone have any questions?
Feedback:
Say:
- Who would like to share how to read the words? (Allow the students to share and go over the answers.)
Written by Kimberly Greacen, Education World® Contributing Writer
Kimberly is an educator with extensive experience in curriculum writing and developing instructional materials to align with Common Core State Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy.
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