The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching phonics and spelling. It includes directions for an activity where students will chart their progress in reading and spelling high frequency words and phonetic words. Students will take a progress check to assess their skills and the teacher will use the results to identify strengths and weaknesses in order to monitor students' learning. The goal is for students to read, write, and spell words with bonus letters 80% of the time.

1. Just Words
MARIA ANGALA, NBCT
JEFFERSON ACADEMY, WASHINGTON DC

2. FIRST FIVE!
 1. Come in quietly and take your seat
 2. Place materials on desk
 3. Take out HW assignment
 4. Write down HW assignment in
agenda book.
 5. Begin “JUST START!”

3. DO NOW: Just Start! (3 min)
 1. Open your Student
 Why is it important to
Challenge Books to My chart your progress?
Progress Section.
 To monitor our strengths
 2. We will chart your
and weakness in reading
progress together from and spelling words
your first progress check.
 Explain: This chart will
tell us if you have
difficulty with high
frequency words or
phonetic words.

4. OBJECTIVES:
 By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
 1. read, tap, skywrite 5 words with bonus
letters
 …80% of the time as measured by a
progress check.

5. PRIDE scholars, hit it!!
 Vocabulary, vocabulary
how many words do you
know?
 We’ll have power to read
in Just Words class
 Here we go!!

6. I DO: Teacher Build Words hide
 TEACH BONUS LETTERS  ASK: When do f, l and s get bonus
 WORD: mis letters at the end of the word?
 EXPLAIN: this word has 3 sounds  WORDS: smell & sniff
but it needs another letter.  ASK: Who can tap the word -?
 ASK: Who can guess what letter it is? …Wonderful!
S… great!  ASK: How many letters does the
 EXPLAIN: the 2nd letter s does not word – have? How many taps does it
get a sound and does not get tapped. get? Why?...Fantastic!
 ASK: Who can tap the word with 3  WORD: shelf
taps and read it aloud?  EXPLAIN: notice that the l comes
 EXPLAIN: I want you to remember after a short vowel but does not
that f, l, and s all get bonus letters at come with a bonus letter.
the end of the word if they follow a  ASK: Who can guess why? Because
short vowel. the word has a digraph, the l is part
 ASK: Who can tell me again what the of a blend so no bonus letter is
3 letters are which get bonus letters added.
at the end of the word when they
follow a short vowel?

7. WE DO: Mark Words hide
 EXPLAIN: the letter z  EXPLAIN: Now we mark
sometimes gets a bonus up bonus letters with a star
letter and sometimes does over the bonus letter. Let’s
not. It is a “bonus letter have an example…
wanna be” because z wants  ASK: I need a volunteer to
to be a bonus letter too. come up and mark the
 ASK: Can you give me an bonus letter in the word –
example? buzz & quiz  WORDS:
 ASK: Let’s review how we miss, staff, spill
mark up words. Long vowel  ASK: why do these words
sound? Short vowel sound? have bonus letters?
Digraph? Blends? Because the letters s, f, and
…Fantastic!! l come after a short vowel
and do not have a digraph
that is part of a blend.

8. YOU DO! hide
 EXPLAIN: Like doctors
who are doing surgery in
the emergency room, let us
dissect these words: thrill
 ASK: Who wants to come
and mark up this word on
the board?...Great job!!
 ASK: Notice that we have a
digraph here, why do we
still need to add an extra l?
We add a bonus letter
when a word ends with a
vowel followed by an
f, l, or s that is not part of
a blend.

9. PROGRESS CHECK
 Explain: We will be  Instruct: 1. Please take
doing a progress check at out your Student
the beginning of every Challenge Book.
Unit to see your  2. Find Unit 3 Progress
strengths and Check page
weaknesses. Don’t worry  3. You need to fold back
if you make your answers on this
mistakes, you will get page.
better and better as we
 Ready? (dictation page
go on practicing and
learning Just Words! 90 of Instructor’s
manual)

10. Progress Check
 Explain: Now let’s open the  YOU DO:
page so you’ll see the  Circle the correctly spelled
answers. high frequency words red
 Examine: Notice that there  Underline the correctly
are words that were spelled phonetic words
circled, and some are blue
underlined.  You have 2 min.
 Ask: Who can guess what  Done?
these words are?
 Tally up high frequency
 Circled= high frequency words
words
 Tally up phonetic words
 Underlined= phonetic
words

11. Charting
 DO NOW:  Explain: This is not a test
 1. Open your Student but a way to see progress
Challenge Books to My as you learn more in our
Progress Section. class.
 2. We will chart your  Explain: You will see that
progress together. you will get better and
 Explain: This chart will
better in our Just Words
tell us if you have class and will eventually
difficulty with high be able to know how to
frequency words or spell these words
phonetic words. correctly!

12. QUICK CHECK
 Why is it important to
chart your progress?
 To monitor our strengths
and weakness in reading
and spelling words

13. HOMEWORK
 1. Write these words
three times, and
 2. Use these words in
a sentence:
 fill
 spell
 fuss
 jazz
 less

14. Did we meet the OBJECTIVES:
 By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
 read, tap, skywrite 5 words with
bonus letters
…80% of the time as measured by a
progress check.

15. YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
 You deserve a
Chimpan-
CHEER!!!

16. LAST FIVE!
 1. Homework in homework folder
 2. Notes in folders
 3. Materials put away
 4. Clean desk and area
 5. Line up when instructed