Learning Intension: We are learning to identify and use specific vocabulary, including suffixes like -er and -est, to help us understand and describe comparisons in texts.  

Hook:  
🧩 Word of the Day Riddle 🧩

I’m a word that compares,

I can race you up stairs.

Add two letters to me —

You’ll compare one, then three!

Start with “fast” and you’ll see,

What kind of word could I be?

What word am I?

Answer: Faster (or Fastest if they go one step further!) 

Mini Lesson:

Class Novel

Reading groups:

1. Teacher Group (Amplify)

2. Spelling group suffix

🎲 2. Game: Suffix Sort & Sentence Builder

3. Technology Group Word of The Day  student to play a game (down the bottom) 

4. Book Club Group/ independent reading  

Reflection

💬 What was our Word of the Day today? What clues helped you solve the riddle?

Learning Intension: We are learning to identify and use specific vocabulary, including suffixes like -er and -est, to help us understand and describe comparisons in texts.  

Hook:  
🧩 Riddle #1 🧩

I describe something neat,

With corners and lines so sweet.

But add -er or -est,

And I beat all the rest!

What’s the neatest word you can meet?

Answer: Neat → Neater / Neatest

Mini Lesson:

Class Novel

Reading groups:

1. Teacher Group (Amplify)

2. Spelling Group

🎲 2. Game: Suffix Sort & Sentence Builder

3. Technology Group Word of The Day  student to play a game (down the bottom) 

4. Book Club Group/  independent reading  

Reflection

🧠 What do suffixes like -er and -est tell us about a word? Can you give some examples from your reading or our game? 

Learning Intension: We are learning to identify and use specific vocabulary, including suffixes like -er and -est, to help us understand and describe comparisons in texts.   

Hook:  
🧩 Riddle #2  🧩

I’m a tiny thing, not very tall,

Among my friends, I’m the smallest of all.

Add a letter, then one more,

And I’ll show who’s closer to the floor!

Answer: Small → Smaller / Smallest

Mini Lesson:

Class Novel

Reading groups:
1. Teacher Group (Amplify)

2. Spelling Group

🎲 2. Game: Suffix Sort & Sentence Builder

3. Technology Group Word of The Day  student to play a game (down the bottom) 

4. Book Club Group/  independent reading   

Reflection

List three new words you encountered while reading today- choose students to add theirs to your classroom vocabulary wall. 

Learning Intension: We are learning to identify and use specific vocabulary, including suffixes like -er and -est, to help us understand and describe comparisons in texts.  

Hook:  
🧩 Riddle #4 🧩

I'm not loud, I barely make a sound,

But when I’m the -est, no noise is found.

Change me just a little bit,

To show who whispers most when they sit.

Answer: Quiet → Quieter / Quietest

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. Spelling Group

🎲 2. Game: Suffix Sort & Sentence Builder

3. Technology Group Word of The Day  student to play a game (down the bottom) 

4. Book Club Group/  independent reading  

Reflection

✍️ Did anyone use a new word or suffix in their writing or during the game today? Share it with the class!