Skill Building

Lesson Plans for ANIMAL SKELETONS level J

Building Skills

Phonological Awareness
Using the finger clapping technique described earlier in this lesson, have children go through the book and see if they can find the four words in the book that have three syllables (skeleton, animal, different, supported). Challenge them to count up the number of words that have two syllables. For extra fun, they can see who can think of a word with the most syllables.

Phonics
Talk to the class about the different way s is seen. Have children come up with word families using /s/ as an initial consonant sound.You may want to put these lists up on large pieces of chart paper.
For example:

s with a vowel
some
sure
sorry

sh
shut
shame
shutters

st
store
stampede
stapler

Have children make a list of the different ways that the letter s is used.

Word Work
High Utility Words
light, many, know, kind
By incorporating these words into there writing, children will become more familiar with them. If they have access to them on either a word wall or personal dictionary, they may be more inclined to use the words more often. You can also incorporate these words into a weekly spelling test.

A word activity
Choose a few sentences from the book. Write the sentence out, putting only one word and one type of punctuation per piece of paper. Hand out the papers, and have children arrange themselves into a sentence with the punctuation in the appropriate place. To make this more challenging, hand out more than one sentence at a time, and have children figure out which words and punctuation go together.

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