Structural Analysis of Words Lesson Plans

Explore compound words and their use in text with young readers. They locate, create, separate, and define compound words found in meaningful text and print. In addition, they create a Compound Word bank, create words using strips, and create a class book.

First graders examine the word and sentence structure of reading, writing, speaking, and listening effectively. In this structural analysis lesson, 1st graders review the ending of compound words, root words and their usages.

First graders study prefixes, suffixes, and root words. They identify and apply appropriate word analysis and vocabulary strategies (e.g., word patterns, structural analysis) to identify unfamiliar words. They use synonyms and antonyms to express the implied meaning of a new word.

Students use structural analysis and context clues to determine meanings of words. They play a game to decode, read, and comprehend written text . They treat others with kindness and fairness and include others in learning and play activities.

First graders listen as they are read a book containing exmaples of word families, they listen for rhyming words. They focus on word families, words that have rhyming sounds and share the same spelling patterns. Pupils work in small groups, each group is given a copy of the ryyming text and some sticky notes. They read the text and identify and write words that form word family groups, using one sticky note for each word.

Students use parts of words in order to fill in the blanks to develop the full spelling. This challenges them to finish spelling words. They also practice the skill of recognizing prefixes and suffixes. The words are used to help students predict the events of a story that is read in class.

Students demonstrate strategies used to interpret the meaning of new words. In pairs, students create a poster for each word on the vocabulary list. On the poster, students include the definitions, parts of speech, a picture, and a sentence. Students share their poster and word analysis with the class.

First graders apply phonograms to help them decode and spell unfamiliar words while reading and writing.

First graders recognize phonograms and use them to decode ans spell unfamiliar words. On the first day of the lesson, a new phonogram is introduced. Students use a word family poem or story to practice the new word part.

Fourth graders read a book.  For this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders view the book "Oil Spill: Let's Read and FInd Out About Science 2" and make predictions about what they will learn.  Students learn new vocabulary words, read a portion of the book, answer comprehension questions and make semantic maps.