Hook:
Reading Wild Robot/ add to class display.
Mini Lesson:
-ful, -less
Understand how suffixes modify the meaning of words to show quality or absence. Identify how they form adjectives.
Introduce activities for the week.
Reading groups:
1. Teacher Group (Amplify)
2. Write a short paragraph or story using at least 3 -ful words and 3 -less words correctly.
Challenge them to create contrast or show character traits using the words (e.g. a powerful hero meets a helpless stranger). "Invent-a-Word" Challenge
Students invent their own base word and add -ful and -less to it.
They write a definition and use each in a silly or serious sentence.
Example:
Base: laugh →
laughful (full of laughter), laughless (no laughter at all)
3. Technology Group
Students to read ____ Kids News and complete the Quick Quiz- answering the questions in FULL sentences in their Reading books.
4. Book Club Group
Reflection
List three new words you encountered while reading today- choose students to add theirs to your classroom vocabulary wall.
Hook:
Reading Wild Robot/ add to class display.
Mini Lesson:
Model: Read a passage from a text with a strong character (e.g. Sherlock Holmes, a child in a Victorian factory story).
Think Aloud: Model how to predict what the character might do next using their current actions and dialogue.
Small Group Reading: In pairs or small groups, read the next few paragraphs and make new predictions based on what the character says or does.
Reflect: Did the prediction match what happened? Why or why not?
Reading groups:
1. Teacher Group (Amplify)
2. Write a short paragraph or story using at least 3 -ful words and 3 -less words correctly.
Challenge them to create contrast or show character traits using the words (e.g. a powerful hero meets a helpless stranger). "Invent-a-Word" Challenge
Students invent their own base word and add -ful and -less to it.
They write a definition and use each in a silly or serious sentence.
Example:
Base: laugh →
laughful (full of laughter), laughless (no laughter at all)
3. Technology Group
Students to read ____ Kids News and complete the Quick Quiz- answering the questions in FULL sentences in their Reading books.
4. Book Club Group
Reflection
List three new words you encountered while reading today- choose students to add theirs to your classroom vocabulary wall.
Hook:
Reading Wild Robot/ add to class display.
Mini Lesson:
-ful, -less
Understand how suffixes modify the meaning of words to show quality or absence. Identify how they form adjectives.
Introduce activities for the week.
Reading groups:
1. Teacher Group (Amplify)
2. Write a short paragraph or story using at least 3 -ful words and 3 -less words correctly.
Challenge them to create contrast or show character traits using the words (e.g. a powerful hero meets a helpless stranger). "Invent-a-Word" Challenge
Students invent their own base word and add -ful and -less to it.
They write a definition and use each in a silly or serious sentence.
Example:
Base: laugh →
laughful (full of laughter), laughless (no laughter at all)
3. Technology Group
Students to read ____ Kids News and complete the Quick Quiz- answering the questions in FULL sentences in their Reading books.
4. Book Club Group
Reflection
List three new words you encountered while reading today- choose students to add theirs to your classroom vocabulary wall.
Hook:
Reading Wild Robot/ add to class display.
Mini Lesson:
-ful, -less
Understand how suffixes modify the meaning of words to show quality or absence. Identify how they form adjectives.
Introduce activities for the week.
Reading groups:
1. Teacher Group (Amplify)
2. Write a short paragraph or story using at least 3 -ful words and 3 -less words correctly.
Challenge them to create contrast or show character traits using the words (e.g. a powerful hero meets a helpless stranger). "Invent-a-Word" Challenge
Students invent their own base word and add -ful and -less to it.
They write a definition and use each in a silly or serious sentence.
Example:
Base: laugh →
laughful (full of laughter), laughless (no laughter at all)
3. Technology Group
Students to read ____ Kids News and complete the Quick Quiz- answering the questions in FULL sentences in their Reading books.
4. Book Club Group
Reflection
List three new words you encountered while reading today- choose students to add theirs to your classroom vocabulary wall.