Becoming a Word Sleuth

This class is designed for students that are reading long vowel words within a passage without assistance. This class is aimed at developing your students vocabulary. The class will begin by using the process of syllabication  to break down unknown multisyllabic words. There are 6 rules to syllabication. The students will also do word study in the area of morphology understanding the meaning of prefixes and suffixes. We will also focus on words with in a passage using both context clues and inferencing skills.  The students will also learn about synonyms and antonyms of  the words that are introduced. This course will be presented in an interactive format. Students will be presented new information on google slides but activities will be presented in a game type format. For this class the students will need to have something to write with either pencil and paper or dry erase board and a dry erase marker. 

The following topics will be covered:  
Week 1  October 1st Introduction and the rules of Syllabication 1 and 2
Week 2 October  8th  Rules of syllabication  1-3  and study of prefixes. 
Week 3 October 15 th Rules of syllabication 1-4 and study of prefixes, 
Week 4  October  29th Rules of Syllabication 1-4 and introduction to suffixes.
Week 5 November 5th Rules of Syllabication 1-5 and suffixes
Week 6 November 12th Rules of Syllabication and context clues
Classes will continue till May

Structures of classes
Students build community through ice breakers
Introduction of  new skill being taught
learn the new vocabulary skills with teacher direction of examples
practice decoding  vocabulary and using the skill with teacher
work on new vocabulary word set individually
homework practice of 1-3 words provided after class