Lesson Plans for JESSICA LOVES SOCCER level L

Building Skills

Phonics
-ar
Phonetics rule: When a vowel is followed by an r, the vowel sound is different, being neither long nor short.

Examples in text: Sharks (page 4), harder, hard (page 12). Pronounce these words several times, and ask children to repeat them. Review the use of the words in the text and then ask children to create new sentences with these words.

Ask children to give other examples of words with ar.
For example: star, guitar, sharp, part, barn, smart.
Create silly sentences— for example, If Bart is smart he’ll do his part.
He played a guitar then became a rock’ n’ roll star.

Have children brainstorm a list of words that rhyme with star. Use the familiar nursery rhyme
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to have the children make their own silly versions using the first two lines. For example: Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder where you are. I like to put you in a jar. Then trade you for a candy bar.

Word Work
Capitalization for proper nouns
Review the use of capital letters in proper nouns. Use samples from the text (e.g. names of author and illustrator, title page, Jessica, The Sharks, etc.) Review selected pages of the text and ask children to identify the proper nouns.

Write sample sentences on the board and ask children to correctly supply the capital letters.

Example one: The sharks and the red dragons are the names of two soccer teams.
Example two: Mr. david cockcroft illustrated the book called jessica loves soccer.

Discuss how context can change a common noun to a proper noun. Contrast the use of soccer in City Soccer Championships and neighborhood soccer team (page 4). Contrast the use of coach and Coach on page 4 and 5.

Write sample sentences on the board and ask children to correctly supply the capital letters.

We play on a neighborhood soccer team. Tomorrow, our team will play in the city soccer championships.
Our coach is a tall man. His name is mr. smith, but we usually call him coach.
In the book, jessica loves soccer, a little girl named jessica plays soccer.

Have the children complete worksheet 2.

Word work target words
Root words: goal, play
Write the vocabulary from the book on the blackboard: Goalkeeper, goalie, goal
Ask: What is similar about these three words?
Ask: What is a goal? What is the meaning of goalkeeper? Goalie?
Return to pages 13, 14, and 15 to review these words in the book.
Add additional example: (e.g., goalpost) Think aloud: When we see a familiar word like goal, we know the meaning. We recognize that goal is part of a new word like goalpost. We say to ourselves: A post is a metal or wooden pole in the ground. Therefore, a goalpost must mean there is a pole by the goal.

Repeat with these vocabulary words: player, play, played
Have children brainstorm for other words that include play (e.g., playing, plays, playground, playpen, plaything, replay, playbook, playful, playact, playmate).
Ask children to make guesses about the definitions of these words. Generate a few sentences using these words.

If your class has had exposure to other root words, use this opportunity to review by playing "Go Root."
Modeled after the familiar game of "Go Fish," children play to combine root word cards and suffixes, prefixes, or other words for compounding to make pairs. Create game cards with words that the class has recently studied (e.g., play + er , play + ground, goal + ie).

Possible other root words from this book include good and line.


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