In this lesson plan, learners will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the year. Pictures and videos of the lesson plan in action are included.

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns

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Additional Tags

betterlesson, betterlesson: word detective, oh.ela-literacy.l.1.2e spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions., oh.ela-literacy.l.2.2d generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

L.1.2.d L.2.2.d L.1.2.e L.K.2.d L.K.2.b L.K.5.c