Word Study Lesson

December 1, 2014

Go in order: MORNING: Yellow, Green, Teal, & Blue AFTERNOON: Yellow, green,
blue (with teal words)
No more than 10 MINUTES!!!
Have students bring words, pencil, & word study/spelling notebook to back table

MORNING
YELLOW: Sort 47 (Long -A Homophones)
Write on whiteboard: a-e, ai, and oddball as headers
Say pull out the words mane and main. Write the words on the whiteboard.
What do you notice about these two words? They sound the same but they
are spelled differently. These two words are homophones.
Ask students what homophones are. What are homophones? Homophones
are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different
meanings.
Underline the a and e in mane. Underline the ai in main
You are now going to match up and pair each homophone under the correct
header
After you match a pair, underline both the a and e in every word and the ai in
every word
a-e
-sort/find all words that have a-e in the word
-underline the a and e in every word
-have students say all the words they find and I will write them down on the
whiteboard
-GO OVER words they may not know: mane (horse hair behind their head),
pale (type of color, fair skin), ale (a type of drink), pane (window border), hare
(rabbit), daze (staring, day dreaming)
ai
-sort/find all words that have ai in the word
-underline the ai in every word
-have students say all the words they find and I will write them down on the
whiteboard
-GO OVER words they may not know: pail (bucket), ail (to trouble or to
bother), waist (hip waist/line), maize (corn)

Oddball
-3 oddballs: there, their, theyre
Oddballs because they have the long a sound but no long a patterns.
Students will write the sort on next clean page in word study notebook (with
headers: a-e, ai, oddball)
Then go back to seat

GREEN: SORT 9 (Y+ inflected endings)

Write on whiteboard: headings: base word, +s, +ed, +ing

Pull out the headings that are bolded: base word, +s, +ed, +ing
Find the word play. Play goes under the base header
o Pull out and find the word plays, played, and playing. Put these words
under the correct header, +s, +ed, +ing
o What is the base word? Play. Underline the base word in the words,
plays, played, and playing.
Before you sort, I want you to pull out the words stay, spray, fry, cry, spy.
(and write these on the whiteboard). These are all of the base words. Put
them in this order:
Base +s
+ed +ing
Base +es
Play plays played
playing
Stay stays stayed
staying
Spray sprays
sprayed spraying spy

+ed
fry
cry
spies

+ing
fries fried frying
cries cried crying
spied spying

I want you to match up the base words with each of its different forms just
like we did for the word play. Do this now.
6 rows: play, stay, spray, fry, cry, spy
Underline all of the base words
Look at the words play, stay, spray. The y stays the same and does not turn
to i
Now look at the words fry, cry, and spy. In these words the y turns to a y. The
y is only changed to I when it follows a consonant (like fry to fries) but not
when it follows a vowel (stay to stays)
Compare play and fry. They both end in y but one ends in an ay. What
happened before the s, -ed, and ing were added to each?
Have students say all the words and I will write them on the whiteboard
Students will write the sort on the next clean page in word study notebook
Then go back to seat

Ms. Smith will meet with the TEAL and BLUE groups