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! (5 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 last 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:
read, tap, 4 out of 5 words with –s
read, tap, 4 out of 5 words with –es
…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. Pre-Test High Frequency Words hide
 Open your Student  DO: Turn to page 110 of
Challenge Book to the Instructional Manual
“High Frequency  DO: Dictate all 32 HFW.
Spelling Check-Up Units Have students repeat
4-7” page. each word and spell them
 SAY: Remember that in their SCB.
HFW are the words used  SAY: I will help you learn
most in English writing. any words that you have
Since many do not follow trouble with because
the sound system, they some can be tricky.
need to be memorized.

7. Teacher Build Words hide
 TEACH BASE WORD AND  ASK: Who can tell me what it is?
THE –s, -es SUFFIXES Excellent!!
 WORD: shop  EXPLAIN: notice that the letter s
 EXPLAIN: read. I will add the has two different sounds here.
suffix –s, what word do we have /s/ and /z/.
now? Perfect!!  Now tell me what the sound of –s
 ASK: What is the baseword? is in the following words.
What is the suffix? Nice job!!  WORDS:
 WORD: bug chops, chugs, clocks, clogs, clinks
 ASK: What do we do to make this , clings…great!!
word plural? Add –s. What is our  WORD: pen one pen, two pens.
new word? Bugs …wonderful!!  EXPLAIN: Remember your ELA
 ASK: Who can tell me what the lesson about this? By adding the
baseword is and what the suffix is –s we make the singular pen
in this new word? Great!! change to its plural form pens.
 SAY: Now, I notice something  SAY: From your math concepts
about the sound of the letter s in give me an example. From your
these two words shops and bugs. science concepts give me an
Do you notice anything? example.

8. (Cont)Teacher Build Words hide
 WORD: box + -es  EXPLAIN: Now, you
 SAY: Let’s read the have to remember that
word, everyone: box – nouns ending in s, x, z,
boxes and sh add –es to its
 ASK: Which one means
plural form.
singular? Which one
means plural?
 ASK: Which one is the
baseword? Suffix?
 WORD:
punch + -es ; pass + -es

9. Mark Words hide
 EXPLAIN: To mark these  YOU DO:
words, we underline the  1. Open Student
baseword and circle the Notebooks under
suffix. consonant s
 ASK: Again, how do we  2. Add the bugs keyword
mark these words? for the sound of /z/
 We will also identify the under the consonant s
sound of the suffix –s if it  SAY: You will now say s-
is /s/ or /z/ by doing it snake - /s/, s – bugs -
above the suffix. /z/…everyone repeat -

10. 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 4 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! 110 of Instructor’s
Manual)

11. 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 circled, spelled phonetic words
and some are underlined. blue
 Ask: Who can guess what  You have 2 min.
these words are?  Done?
 Circled= high frequency  Tally up high frequency
words words
 Underlined= phonetic  Tally up phonetic words
words

12. 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!

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

14. HOMEWORK
 1. Write these words
three times, and
 2. Use these words in
a sentence:
 clumps
 dresses
 squalls
 kings
 skulls

15. Did we meet the OBJECTIVES:
 By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
 read, tap, 4 out of 5 words with –s
 read, tap, 4 out of 5 words with –es
…as measured by a progress check.

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

17. 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