Lesson Plans for TROIKA CANINE SUPERHERO level O

Building Skills

Phonics
ly endings
Explain to children that when ly comes at the end of a word it sounds like ‘lee’
Use the following words from the story ugly (page 3) and grizzly (page 8)
Have children think of other words ending in ly.
Ask: Can you find any words in the story that end in ly? What are they?
Can you think of any other words that end in ly?
Write children’s answers onto a board.

Word Work
Contractions
Explain to children that a contraction is a combination of two words where the ’ represents letters that have been left out when the two words are joined.
Use the following example, don’t from the story (page 3),
Ask: Can you find any other contractions in the story?
Write these on a chart as they find them. Discuss what two words have been joined to form the contraction. Write these on the chart alongside.
Ask: What two words have been used to make the new word?
Have children look closely at the words to identify which letter or letters have been dropped in favor of the ’.
Ask: What letter has been dropped?
Make a list of the contractions and the two words used to make them.
Have children think of other contractions.
Ask: Can you think of some other contractions?
Add these to the list.

Compound words –
Explain to children that a compound word is two words joined that are not abbreviated.
Use the following example from the story background (page 5)
Ask: Can you find any other compound words in the story?
Write these on another chart as they find them. Discuss what two words have been joined to form the compound word. Write these on the chart alongside.
Ask: What two words have been used to make the new word?
Have children think of other compound words and list on a chart.
Ask: Can you think of any other compound words?
Add these to the chart.


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