Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

Part 1 Duration 10 minutes Lesson READING FLUENCY Objective: To check / monitor students progress in reading 1. Make students refer to their files and take a look at all the difficult words they have written in them. 2. Get students to pronounce the words as they have been taught. While a particular student reads: 1. Teacher corrects any mistakes made. 2. The rest will read on their own while waiting for their turn. Materials Reading Material: Own list of difficult words taken from previous books read

10 minutes

WORD STUDY Objective: Students will recap the definition of prefixes and recall how they change the meaning of words when added to them. 1. Engage student by asking them to describe what a prefix is. 2. Show students two prefixes taught mis and un and get student response on their meanings. 3. Show students some root word and prefix cards and make them match to form a new word. 4. Make them guess the meanings of the new words formed. 5. Discuss student answers and correct student mistakes. 6. Review the rule of prefixes taught and check student understanding by checking their worksheets. Whiteboard / Flip chart (to explain as a large group) / Small magnetic boards (to explain in small groups) Teacher Resource: Lesson 18 Student Worksheet: Lesson 18

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INSTRUCTIONAL READING

Reading Material:

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Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS Own PM+ Level minutes books for each Objective: group (depends on Students will retell how they have been surprised before and describe how they proficiency level of each student felt when they were given such a group) surprise. Before reading: 1. Pass the passage to students. 2. Engage student interest by asking them to guess what the story is about by looking at the title. 3. Discuss student answers. Reading: 1. Make students read books in their own groups. 2. Ask students to write difficult words on their worksheet and guide their understanding. 3. Get students to focus on the element of surprise found in all the books they are reading. After reading: 1. Get student response on what they felt after reading the book. 2. Ask them what is the element of surprise as found in the book. 3. Make students recall a time when they were surprised by someone or an event and make them jot down as a diary entry what the experience was all about. 4. Ask students to highlight how they felt during the experience. 5. Get students to share their experiences with other group members. HA: The Bully (Level 23) MA: A Surprise for Zac (Level 17) LA: The Beach House (Level 9)

Student Worksheet: Lesson 18 Teacher Resource: Lesson 18

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Lesson Plan STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

10 minutes

WRITING Objective: Students will improve writing fluency 1. Review words with the prefixes learnt in the lesson and encourage students to write as many words as they can remember from the words they have seen or read. 2. Ask each student to stand up and read the words they have written and share to the class. 3. Monitor and help students with their spelling and pronunciation. Student Worksheet: Lesson 18

20 minutes

BOARD GAMES (review of Compound Words) Objective: Students will reinforce their understanding in topics taught (in this lesson or previous) by engaging in educational games. 1.

Teacher Resource: Lesson 18 Student Worksheet: Lesson 18

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If time permits, any other board games Hand out word cards containing broken that students have up compound words, prefixes learnt and not played before. root words. Get students to match them correctly and group them according to compound words and words with prefixes. Get student response on the meanings of the new words formed. Correct student mistakes and if time permits, let students play any other board games.

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Teachers Resource STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME NURTUREPLUS LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS Part 2:Word Study

Words with Un Unpopular Unfit Unlike Unclean Unglamorous

Words with Mis Mislead Misname Misuse Misfit Misconduct

Game: Some of the word cards are purposely given even though they cannot form words. (e.g hap)

Un Fast Hap Der Hive

Stand Bee Fresh Taken Button

Break Mis Shoot Fly Claim

Mis House Took Broken Green

Un Fair Happy Horn Cook

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Students Worksheet LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

Name: _________________________________________________________

Date: _____________________

Part 2: Word Study Guess the meaning of the words with the prefix. Words with un Meaning Words with mis meaning

Unpopular Unfit Unlike Unclean

Mislead Misname Misuse Misfit

Part 3: Instructional Reading (Title of story: A Spider in my Bedroom Level 19) VOCABULARY Write down the difficult words here.

Do you like surprises? Have you gotten any surprises? What are the surprises you have gotten before? Write short notes here and share with your friends.

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Students Worksheet LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

Record what your surprise was and how you felt in the diary below.

Dear Diary, Today I had a surprise which was I feel

Part 4: Writing Write as many plural words that end with ies that you have learnt or come across today in box below in the shortest time possible.

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Students Worksheet LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

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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