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 “Do Now”

3. DO NOW: Just Start! (5 min)
• 1. Get your Student WORD: bid
Notebook, open to MEANING: offers to do
Vocabulary Section or pay for something
page ___. SENTENCE: We will get
six bids for this job.
• 2. Add the word: bid
3. Copy this on the
Demonstrations page
(Vocabulary section):

4. OBJECTIVES:
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
• tap, read, skywrite and mark up 8 out
of 10 words with consonant suffix
• …as measured by quick checks.

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. TEACHER BUILD WORDS: hide
• SAY: Let’s see how smart we are
with letters and sounds! Who • Let’s inspect other words:
wants to volunteer to be the drill • WORD: lacks
leader? (letter-keyword)
• SAY: Excellent!!
• Do: meaning, sentence,
tap, blend, digraph, bonus
letters, closed syllable,
mark up, baseword, suffix
• SAY: Just like what engineers do
at work, let’s inspect this word:
bids • WORD: stacks
• ASK: Baseword? Suffix? Who can • Do: meaning, sentence,
remember the meaning of this tap, blend, digraph, bonus
word? (2 Trojan bucks!)
letters, closed syllable,
• ASK: Now, how do we use this in mark up, baseword, suffix
an everyday sentence? (2 Trojan
bucks)
• ASK: tap, blend, digraph, bonus
letters, mark up

7. WORD TALK hide
• READ WORDS: • SAY: Find and mark words
• Ask students to tap & with a consonant suffix.
read five new words What is the baseword?
from the flashcards What does the s say?
• Quickly read others Select a word to define
without tapping and use in a sentence.
• DISPLAY WORDS:
• Display selection of
word cards, have
students mark them up

8. STUDENT BUILD WORDS hide
• Magnetic Journals • DICTATION/ DRY ERASE
• Student leader using • /n/, /r/, /v/
word cards • brisk, skill, shrimp
• Review 3 sounds • banks, dunks, drops
• Dictate 3 words, tap • toward, two, also
& spell on MJ, spell • stops to rest
orally
• with two flags
• toward the docks
• Underline baseword,
circle suffix, mark closed
syllables

9. Did we meet the OBJECTIVES?
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT:
• tap, read, skywrite and mark up 8 out
of 10 words with consonant suffix
• …as measured by quick checks.

10. YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
• You deserve a
Chimpan-
CHEER!!!

11. HOMEWORK
• 1. Write these phrases
three times in different
colors, and
• 2. Use these phrases in
a sentence:
• glass of milk
• brush and floss
• off which bed
• what skill
• cross which path

12. 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