Lesson Plans for BREEDS OF DOGS level P

Building Skills

Phonics
long e digraph ee
Review digraph ee words from the text: breed (pages 5, 7, 18, 20), feeding (page 6), see (page 8), freezes (page 8), feet (pages 9, 10, 19), keep (pages 9, 12, 13, 14, 22), sheep (pages 14, 15), needs (pages 17, 19), weeks (page 21). Read several of these sentences out loud.

Have the class brainstorm for other ee words.

Play EE Scrabble. Divide the class into teams with 4 or 5 people on each team. You will need a set of block letters that are large enough to be seen from a distance. Give each team a set of EE and then have them randomly draw 8 other letters from the bone pile. Each team takes a turn attempting to spell out an ee word. Teams must display their word by holding up the letters so that the rest of the class can easily read the word. If a team is unable to spell a word, they pass their turn and discard one of their letters and draw a new one from the bone pile.

Word Work
Use common examples of superlatives and comparatives from the text (tall, small, big, long, short, fast, smart, strong) for writing sentences to demonstrate comparison.

Model the example for each form of tall, taller, tallest. Then, have children identify the forms for other words from the text. Ask them to give additional examples (e.g., old, fat, good).

A fundamental way to write comparisons is to use the superlative form. For example: She is the tallest (amongst her peers). On the blackboard, write: She is the tallest. Think aloud: This sentence is okay, but it could be better. More information is needed. She is tallest compared to whom? Ask: How can we improve this sentence? Write several examples on the board. She is the tallest girl in the class. She is the tallest person in the school. She is the tallest person in the world! Use another simple sentence, and ask children to complete the sentence. (Bob is the fastest runner.)

To use the comparative form, introduce children to than. She is taller (than the other girls in her class). She is taller than any person in the school. She is taller than any person in the world! Have children complete this sentence: Bob is faster than ______.

Use several samples from the text. For example: A Welsh corgi is shorter than a ________.
An Irish wolfhound is faster than _________.

Have them complete worksheet 2.


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