Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS Part 1 Duration 10 minutes Lesson

READING FLUENCY Objective: To check / monitor students progress in reading 1. Teacher recaps previous lesson taught and get student response. 2. Ask each student to read the book aloud and check reading of each student. While student reads: 1. Teacher corrects any mistakes made. 2. Students write down words not read correctly in their worksheet. 3. While teacher is assessing a particular student, the rest will read on their own while waiting for their turn. Materials Reading Material: Own PM+ Level books for each group (depends on proficiency level of each student group) 1 set for teacher, 1 for pupil Student Worksheet: Lesson 13

10 minutes

WORD STUDY Objective: Students will learn what compound words are and how to form them. 1. Whiteboard / Flip chart (to explain as a large group)

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/ Small magnetic Show 3 pictures of objects that are made boards (to explain in small groups) up of compound words (basketball, snowman, watermelon) and ask Teacher Resource: students to name them. Spell out the words (or make the higher Lesson 13 ability students to spell the words) and Student worksheet: break up the words into two small Lesson 13 words. (i.e. basket + ball, snow + man, water + melon) Introduce compound words to students. (Compound Words = 2 small words that make a new word) Write 3 other examples on the boards / flip chart and ask students to draw the new object formed from the 2 small words. (refer to Teacher Resource) For example, ask them to draw a starfish,

Adapted from Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Readers, Grade 3: A Guide for Tutors (University of Texas / Texas Education Agency, 2002)

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Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS teapot and toothpick as seen in list. 5. Check student understanding from pictures drawn. (make sure students fully understand that a new word is formed from the 2 small words) 6. Give students 3 words; rain, eye and sun and ask them to form as many compound words as they can with the given 1st words. (answers found in Teacher Resource) 7. Check and correct student work and reward students who give the most answers.

30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONAL READING Objective: Students will get to interact with the text by playing the role of the main characters in the story and repair / renew an object that is old / broken / destroyed to look all new. Before reading: 1. Pass the books to students. 2. Engage student interest by asking them to guess what the story is about by looking at the title. 3. Guide student response. Reading: 1. Make students read books in their own groups. 2. Engage student by asking them to focus on the objects mentioned in the story (carnival horse, bicycle and flower pot) 3. Ask students to write down new / difficult words from their books into their worksheet. After reading: 1. Ask students to imagine being the characters who came across the broken

Reading Material: HA: The Carnival Horse (Level 20) MA: A Bike for Alex (Level 15) LA: The Broken Flower Pot (Level 11)

Student Worksheet: Lesson 13

Adapted from Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Readers, Grade 3: A Guide for Tutors (University of Texas / Texas Education Agency, 2002)

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Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS / old objects in the story. 2. Ask students to think of how they can renew the objects in their own way. (different from the way the characters did it) 3. Check student work as they fill up their worksheets and commend / comment on their work. 4. Make students share their work among their group members. 5. Review the new words learnt and go through meanings of words with students.

20 minutes

GAMES Objective: Students will reinforce their understanding in topics taught (in this lesson or previous) by engaging in a simple game. 1. Give out the word and picture cards to the students. 2. Ask students to come up with as many compound words from the given word and picture cards. 3. Time the students (10 minutes). 4. Check student work and reward any student who finishes first and gives the correct answers.

Teacher Resource: Lesson 13 Student Worksheet: Lesson 13

Adapted from Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Readers, Grade 3: A Guide for Tutors (University of Texas / Texas Education Agency, 2002)

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Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS

10 minutes

WRITING Objective: Students will improve writing fluency 1. Review the compound words learnt in the lesson. 2. Encourage students to write as many compound words as they can remember from the words they have seen or read. 3. Ask each student to read the words they have written and share to the group members. 4. Monitor and help students with their spelling and pronunciation. Student Worksheet: Lesson 13

Adapted from Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Readers, Grade 3: A Guide for Tutors (University of Texas / Texas Education Agency, 2002)

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Teachers Resource STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS Part 2: Word Study

tooth tea note star table shoe

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pick pot book fish cloth lace

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toothpick teapot notebook starfish tablecloth shoelace

Eye: Eyeball, Eyelid, Eyebrow Rain: Rainfall, Rainbow Sun: Sunshine, Sunrise, Sunset

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Teachers Resource STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS Part 4: Game From the words below, make students form as many compound words as possible.

news lady cook cake room door

drive bed print hand sand bag butter air finger some board bell fly plane storm one tack bug paper pan card book thumb port

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Students Worksheet STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME CENTRAL NU NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS Name: _________________________________________________________ Date: _____________________

Part 1: Reading Fluency Write down the words you have difficulty pronouncing in the box below. Book title: _______________________________________________

Part 2: Word Study Look at the objects shown below and write down their names.

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Can the names of the objects above be split into two small words? If yes, what are they? Write your answers below.

1st object: _____________________________ + ____________________________ 2nd object: _____________________________ + ____________________________ ___________ 3rd object: _____________________________ + ____________________________

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Students Worksheet STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS Compound Words = ____________________________________________________________________________ Some other examples of compound words are: 1st small word + 2nd small word = New word Picture

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What compound words can you form from these 3 first words? Rain + _________ =? Eye + ____________ = ? Sun + ____________ = ?

Part 3: Instructional Reading (Title of story: _____________________________________________ ) VOCABULARY Any difficult words you see in your new book? What are they? Write them in the box below with their meanings.

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Students Worksheet STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS In your story, the characters had a chance to repair or renew the things that are old, broken or destroyed. If you were given a chance to repair or give it a new look, how will yours look like? Draw your new object in the space provided below. What is the object that _______________________________ is old / broken / destroyed in your story:

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Students Worksheet STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 13: COMPOUND WORDS Part 5: Writing Write as many compound words you have learnt or come across today in box below in the shortest time possible.

Check Time: How do you feel after todays lesson? (Tick the box)

Why do you feel so? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What have you learnt today? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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