Applying Grade Level Phonics

Image: Third/Fourth Grade Tidbits: Phonic Cards

Contributor: Morgan Lacasse Sample NearPod Lesson

In this unit, third grade students will be learning about and how to apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text. Students may not understand the difference between a prefix and a suffix and may not know how to decode words. Students will have learning experiences through lectures using power points, games using phonics games on their Google chrome books, and hands-on activities that involve pairing prefixes with their suffixes. These diverse activities will assist the students when they apply phonics to help them decode words. Knowledge of how to apply phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words is important for the students as this will help them in the future with reading and writing. Once students are able to decode words, they will be able to better read with accuracy, rate, and prosody.

Knowing and applying grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text is a learning expectation covered under Tennessee State Standards for ELA.

3.FL.PWR.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding i.solated words and in connected text. a. Identify and define the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. b. Decode words with common Latin suffixes, such as -ly, -less, and -ful. c. Decode multi-syllable words. d. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Media Share Resources

ABC Mouse

ABC Mouse is a site for kids where they can learn many different topics through animations, games, books, songs, puzzles, art, and printables. ABC Mouse’s reading curriculum covers uppercase and lowercase letter recognition, rhyming words and word families, more than 450 books and beginning readers, sentence structure, and parts of speech. I can even track student progress so parents can see how their children are learning and if they are improving.

ABCmouse.com (2007-2021). ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy. [Website, first month free then $12.99/month after that]. Retrieved on September 14, 2021 from https://www.abcmouse.com/abc/

Technology Standard 6c:

Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Technology Standard 1c:

Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Education.com

Education.com has hundreds of games to help students learn in all topic areas. For my topic, phonics, there are over 100 games about blending sounds and spelling, prefixes and suffixes, spelling mulitsyllable words, blended words, and so much more.

Education.com (2021). Phonics. [Website, $8.00/month]. Retrieved on September 14, 2021 from https:// www.education.com/resources/phonics/?cid=11.75

Technology Standard 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Learn to Read with Phonics

This starfall.com website titled “Learn to Read” offers a variety of fun ways for students to learn how to read with phonics. This website allows children to learn through exploration. Starfall’s emphasis on

phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity has proven effective in teaching emergent readers. This website includes learning through games, songs, mathematics, and reading activities for K-3.

Starfall Education Foundation. (2002-2021). Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, & Books K-3. [Website, free]. Retrieved on September 13, 2021 from https://www.starfall.com/h/index.php?mg=m

Technology Standard 6c:

Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Technology Standard 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Read with Phonics- Phonics Games

Read with Phonics is a great resource for students to use in or out of the classroom. This app has a main character, which is an alien, and it takes the students on an adventure through 4 different worlds where they can practice and learn all about phonics and phonic sounds. This app has a variety of games to help with letter and sound recognition.

Way We Learn. (2021). Read with Phonics. [Google Play, Cost: $3.49 - $8.99 per item]. Retrieved on September 13, 2021 from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details? id=uk.co.fonics&hl=en_US&gl=US

Technology Standard 6c:

Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Technology Standard 1c:

Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Reading Lessons for Kids

This video is a great video to share with your students to introduce them to letter blending, sight words, and phonics. This particular video has a variety of songs and characters that help young students to learn. The characters in the video ask questions to get children thinking, sound words out, and say the sounds of letters. They take students through a series of lessons all about phonics.

Lotty Learns (December 30, 2017). Letter Blending + sight words + Phonics | READING LESSONS for Kids. Retrieved from YouTube on Septemeber 14, 2021 from https:// www.youtube.com/watch? v=SFkNf9r1oak&t=900s

Technology Standard 6c:

Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Technology Standard 1c:

Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Syllable Division

This particular video prepares students with the required skills needed to split a word into syllables. The video goes through the six rules of syllables. The advantage of this video is for students to learn how to split words into syllables and then therefore have smaller chunks to read. The video takes them through several words, breaking them down, and sounded them out with the viewer.

Nessy (2020, April 4). Syllable Division | Learn the six rules of syllables | Chunking words | Learn to Read. Retrieved from YouTube on September 14, 2021 from https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_H5azHca5yY

Technology Standard 6c:

Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Technology Standard 1c:

Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Written Product Review

This starfall.com website titled “Learn to Read” offers a variety of fun ways for students to learn how to read with phonics. This website allows children to learn through exploration. Starfall’s emphasis on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity has proven effective in teaching emergent readers. This website includes learning through games, songs, mathematics, and reading activities for Pre-K-3. The website is so colorful, sure to capture the attention of young readers. The songs are entertaining for kids and some have motions they can follow along with. There are different sections for kids who are learning to read and kids that can read. This website is a really great way for students to learn how to read and learn about phonics and mathematics.

This process of searching for media resources was different from previous searches because this search was centered around finding sources that I could potentially use for my lesson. By me doing this research, I became more away of specific sources that I can hopefully use one day when I am a teacher and because I’ve already researched them, I know more about them and how they can be implemented into lesson plans.

Question 1: What does the prefix "pre-" mean? Ex: pretest Difficulty level: 3

A. together B. before

C. after

D. without

Question 2: What is the correct way to decode the word "rabbit"? Difficulty level: 1

A. You can't decode it

B. ra/bbit

C. rab/bit

D. rabb/it

Question 3: A suffix is a a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative. Difficulty level: 1

A. True

B. False

Question 4: What is the suffix in the word "slowly"? Difficulty level: 1

A. –ly

B. slowly C. slow-

Question 5: What does the prefix "over-" mean? Ex: oversleep Difficulty level: 2

A. too much

B. on top C. very little D. none

Question 6: What is the prefix in the word "transform"? Difficulty level: 1

A. tran-

B. -form

C. trans-

D. transform

A. playf/ul B. You can't decode it

C. pla/yful

D. play/ful

Question 8: A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Difficulty level:1

A. True

B. False

Question 9: What is the suffix "-ing" mean? Ex: painting Difficulty level: 3

A. not doing anything B. an action or result

C. a little

D. ability

Question 10: What is the correct way to decode the word "impressive"? Difficulty level: 4

A. im/pres/sive

B. impress/ive C. im/press/ive D. im/pressive

ASSURE Lesson Plan Template

Knowing and Applying Grade Level Phonics

Name: Morgan LaCasse

Duration of Lesson: 60 minutes Subject Area(s): ELA Grade Level: 3rd

In the 3rd grade classroom at Howard Elementary, there are 14 students which include 5 females and 9 males. The students range from, African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, and Chinese. Zero students in this class have IEPs. Zero students are English Language Learners. Howard Elementary is a Title I school. They have developed a School wide Program, which means they plan to spend their funds on the following: Supplemental staff: Reading Specialist and three Paraprofessionals, Programs/Materials/Supplies: IXL, Chromebooks, Reading Eggs, ESGI, Gizmos, Reading A to Z, and STEAM Materials, and Teacher Professional Development: Virtual Conferences and Book Studies. Howard Elementary is a public school located in Gallatin, TN, which is in a large suburb setting. Tennessee's academic standards form the framework for everything taught at Howard Elementary. They do Wit and Wisdom, Fundations, and Bridges in Mathematics. Grouping is used in the classroom.

Curriculum Competencies

To complete this lesson, students will need to have prior academic knowledge of what a prefix and suffix is, know how and what it means to decode words, and know irregularly spelled words.

Technology Competencies

To complete this lesson, students will need to know how to navigate a Chromebook and how to form sentences on a nearpod open ended question and collaborate board, and how to navigate websites.

ELA 3.FL.PWR.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text. a. Identify and define the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. b. Decode words with common Latin suffixes, such as -ly, -less, and -ful. c. Decode multi-syllable words. d. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

This lesson will focus on: a. Identify and define the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.

ISTE Standard

1.c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Behavioral Objective

Given a nearpod code, students will participate in an open ended question, 2 collaborate boards about prefixes and suffixes, will pair index cards with prefixes and suffixes written on them with a root word to create a word, will explore a website with interactive phonics games, will math pictures of objects and the students have to say the name of that object and match it to the correct amount of syllables and lastly they will take a quiz all to show their understanding of the terms and standard.

Language Objective Key vocabulary: prefix, suffix, decoding, root word, syllable

The students will think back to second grade when they learned about phonics and prefixes and suffixes and they will do a think pair share where they discuss with their table group what they already know about prefixes and suffixes, phonics, and word analysis skills and then they will retell me what they know in an open ended question in nearpod.

Academic Language Functions

To express understanding, the students will use some of the vocabulary terms and their prior knowledge to explain what they already know about phonics and word analysis skills and they will use verbal language to discuss with their table groups. The students will also use language when looking at the picture cards on nearpod and saying the name of the picture out loud in order to hear how many syllables are in that word. At the very end of the lesson, the students will complete and exit ticket where they will need to write and tell me 3 things that they learned in the lesson today.

The vocabulary terms will be taught throughout the lesson to provide the students with understanding of the words they will encounter during the open-ended questions, collaborate board, and end of lesson quiz.

The students will use both written and oral language to practice the new language learned in the lesson and to practice fluency. The written language will be used during the open-ended question and the collaborate boards. The oral language will be used during the think-pair-share. I will also model the academic language using oral language while teaching the lesson.

The linguistic form that will be used in this lesson is morphology, which is the study of the formation of words. The students will be learning how to break down words by decoding and looking at the prefix ad suffixes and their meanings and they will practice the skills acquired during the hands-on activity of matching index cards with prefixes or suffixes written on them with an index card with a root word on it, in order to make a word.

●14 sticky notes (teacher centered)

●14 pencils (student centered)

●Index cards (teacher centered)

Technological Materials

●Phonics games for kids online. SplashLearn. (n.d.). Retrieved November 9, 2021, from https:// www.splashlearn.com/ela/phonics-games.

●Chunk it Video- Hartmann, J. (2017, October 30). Chunk it | fun phonics song for kids | chunking - youtube. YouTube. Retrieved November 9, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_54bA2wmM.

●Chromebook (student centered)

●Nearpod lesson (teacher centered)

●Projector to present nearpod lesson (teacher centered)

***Any teacher using this lesson plan should use a rubric to determine the educational value for the learner and the learning environment***

●Preview the Chunk it Video-- *previewed and approved*

●Preview the Phonics game for kids website-- *previewed and approved*

●Check for properly working projector.

●Have enough index cards with prefixes, suffixes, and root words written on them for each group to have to match and make words.

●Go through nearpod lesson to make sure everything works as it should.

Prepare the Classroom

●Turn one light off for the projector.

●Have nearpod lesson on screen and join code ready for kis to enter in on their chromebooks.

●Turn the projector on.

Prepare the Learner

●Introduce the lesson and vocabulary terms and begin by watching the chunk it video provided to get the students’ attention at the very beginning of the lesson.

●Write the vocabulary terms for open-ended questions and collaborate boards on the board for student use during the lesson.

●Present the practice website where kids will explore phonics games.

●Model for students how to navigate the nearpod lesson and how to enter a comment in to to open-ended question and collaborate boards and how to match the picture cards with the correct amount of syllables on a game in nearpod.

●Show the students the index cards and explain to them what they will be doing with them later on. Require learner participation After the instruction of how to use the technology, the lesson will begin. I will first go over the Standards that will be covered in this lesson and the objective. Next, I will ask the students an open-ended question where they will type their answer to the question, “What do you already know about phonics and/or word analysis skills?”, in nearpod. Then, the students will participate in a think-pair-share with their table groups and they will share with each other what they already know. Next, we will watch the chunk it video and I will ask the students after the video, what they noticed and/or learned from it. Next, I will go over what prefic is and I will give examples of prefixes and their meanings. Then the students will use nearpod to participate in a collaborate board where they will give me a word using one of the prefixes we discussed. Then, I will go over suffixes and we will do the same thing with the suffixes that we did for prefixes. Next, the students will do the hands-on activity with the index cards in order to create word out of suffixes, prefixes, and root words. It is at this moment that I will reiterate what a prefix, suffix, and root word is. Next, we will go over decoding and decoding multi-syllable words and what it means to decode a word and how that helps us. Next, the students will have the opportunity to explore the website, Splashlearn, and play some games that have to do with phonics. Next, the students will math the picture cards with the correct amount of syllables by saying the name of the object in the picture out loud. Then the students will take the quiz on nearpod. Lastly, they will complete the exit ticket.

If a student is showing signs that they do not understand the objective (identifying and defining prefixes and suffixes and decoding words), I will ask one of the group members who is proficient to explain the student with additional instruction or examples of what to do. If peer tutoring does not work, provide the student with examples and instruction from the nearpod lesson. If the student still does not understand, I will pull them aside for some one on one teaching with me.

Formative Assessment used in this lesson is the are the open-ended question and the collaborate boards. Once students type in their answers to the questions, I can see their feedback in real time and I am then able to adjust my lesson based off how they answered. If I can clearly see that they aren’t meeting the objective then I will know that I need to spend more time on this lesson in order to help them meet the objective and learning goals. Another formative assessment will be when the students are in groups and matching the index cards with the prefixes, suffixes, and root words to make words.

Summative Assessment

The summative assessment will be the quiz at the end of the lesson. The quiz is a series of questions, 11 questions, that ask the students questions about decoding, meanings of prefixes and suffixes, syllables, and vocabulary terms. If the students have 8 out of the 11 questions correctly then I consider them as having met the objective of the lesson. I will receive the students scores in real time and will be able to see how many they got right and how many they got correct and which questions the students get wrong so I know what I need to go back and talk about more. I will then use the rubric to grade the students on a 3 point scale based on the number of questions they got correct and if they mastered the content of the lesson standard and objective. The quiz will document the student’s ability of meeting the standard: ELA 3.FL.PWR.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text. a. Identify and define the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. b. Decode words with common Latin suffixes, such as -ly, -less, and -ful. c. Decode multi-syllable words. d. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words

Student Grading Rubric

Content

Number of questions correct All the content was mastered. 11 questions answered correctly 3 2

Some, but not all, of the content was mastered. 10-8 questions answered correctly. 1

None of the content was mastered. 7 or less questions answered correctly.

_______/6 = _____%