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Compound Words
Overview
This lesson will introduce and teach students about compound words and how to form meaning from compound words. Students will first identify and learn what compound words are and how they are formed. They will then engage in a hands-on activity to form their own compound words and predict their meanings based on what they’ve learned about compound words. Students will then demonstrate their ability to identify and give meaning to compound words found from a previously read text in their exit ticket.
Compound Words
LESSON DESCRIPTION
Understanding Compound Words
Author of the Lesson: Brian Messmer
Lesson Summary/Overview:
Students will learn what compound words are and how to form meaning from the compound words. Students will use their understanding of compound words to help them comprehend the text, How do living and working conditions affect health?. (Can be used for any class text that encompasses compound words)
LESSON GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Alignment and Objectives
Content Standards:
6.RL.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Content Objectives: Students will be able to understand compound words in the context of the article How do living and working conditions affect health? (Can be used for any class text that encompasses compound words)
ELP Standards:
6-8.8 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational texts.
Language (ELP) Objectives: Students will be able to use parts of a compound word to determine the meaning of the whole word. (This lesson is designed for middle school level 2 Emerging Bilinguals)
Supporting Academic Language
Language Functions:
Combine meanings of words to form compound words with their own combined meaning.
Identify compound words and understand the meanings.
Language Modalities:
Reading, speaking, listening, writing
Vocabulary:
compound word, faraway, sailboat, outside, inside, sunset, afternoon, doorway, everyone
Syntax or Sentence Structure(s):
Discourse:
LESSON PREPARATION
Considerations
Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills:
Students must know the meaning of the individual parts of compound words such as what after and noon means so they can form an understanding of what afternoon means.
Instructional Materials
Resources, Materials, and Technology required or recommended for the lesson:
Google slides, article: How do living and working conditions affect health?, notebook, picture cutouts (from the openly sourced filter on Google), exit ticket.
Learning Supports
Socio-emotional supports:
Students will engage in typical classroom routines: Bell work, followed by daily agenda, followed by learning target, followed by hook, followed by direction instruction, followed by guided practice, followed by individual practice and assessment.
Cultural & Linguistic Responsiveness:
Later in the unit, students will write an argumentative essay on the health effects of where you live and why some cultural groups are more at risk than others.
Accessibility:
Students on IEPs with accessibility supports will use their supports such as speech to text and notes printed out.
Instructional Supports
Differentiation:
Students will be strategically partnered during learning activities. High-level students will work with low-level students.
L1 Supports:
Translations if needed for meanings of individual words.
L2 Development (by level):
LESSON PROCEDURES
Anticipatory Set/Motivation/Hook
Time:
2 minutes
Teacher Does/Students Do:
Teacher shows slide that includes several compound words in isolation.
Teacher asks students what they notice about each of the words on the slide.
Students must analyze the words they see on the slide and voice their observations.
Focused Instruction (Teacher-as-Model)
Time:
5 minutes
Teacher Does/Students Do:
Teacher moves to next slide to explain what they were looking at: compound words. Teacher then displays slide that includes essential question: What are compound words?
- Compound words are two words that are joined together to create a new word.
- The new word combines the meaning of each of the two words to form its own meaning.
- Example: treehouse - a treehouse is a house that is in a tree
Students are expected to copy down the notes into their notebook using Cornell notes style.
Guided Instruction (Teacher-to-Student Joint Responsibility)
Time:
5 minutes
Teacher Does/Students Do:
Teacher then shows five slides to the students. Each slide has two pictures in it.
Students are to figure out what the pictures are, then guess the compound word and its meaning, first to their partner, then raise their hand to share with class.
Group Application (Student-to-Student Joint Responsibility)
Time:
10 minutes
Teacher Does/Students Do:
Teacher demonstrates learning activity with one pair of pictures.
Students will work with a partner to form their own compound words. Each pair of students will receive an envelope with several pictures. Students will form their own compound words and write them down in their notebook.
For example: there will be a picture of the sun and a picture of glasses in the envelope. Students will be expected to form the word, sunglasses. They will then write a definition for the word by combining the meaning of the two words. If possible, they will add a Spanish translation to their newfound word.
Individual Learning (Independent Practice and Application)
Time: 5 - 10 minutes
Teacher Does/Students Do:
Teacher will hand out exit ticket worksheet. Teacher will demonstrate the first question on the worksheet so students can better understand what they need to do.
Students will complete exit ticket. On their exit ticket, they will need to find the underlined compound word in each sentence. Then they will write the two words that form the compound word and write what they think the meaning of the compound word is.
Students will turn in their exit ticket by taking a picture of their work and submitting that picture on Canvas.
Closure
Time: 5 minutes
Teacher Does/Students Do:
To close the lesson, the teacher will introduce the Newsela article: How do living and working conditions affect health?
Teacher says: This is the article we will be discussing in tomorrow’s class. Let’s look at one of the sentences together: “The quality of our schooling, the safety of our workplaces, and the cleanliness of our water, food and air also affect our health.”
Can anyone find a compound word in that sentence? (solicit student response of workplace)
Good! Based on our lesson today and your understanding of compound words, I want you to write down what you think the definition of workplace is in your notebook. We will return to this to start tomorrow’s lesson.
ASSESSMENTS
Formative Assessment
Content: Understand the meaning of key words in the text to better understand the story.
Language: Understand what compound words are and how to form meaning from compound words.
Their exit ticket will measure both.
Plans for Summative Assessments
Content: Students will respond to comprehension questions about the text including prompts that include compound words found in the text.
Language: Students will indicate the meaning of compound words.
EXTENSIONS
Ideas for Key Assignments, Extensions, and Adaptations for Online Learning Environments:
Students will write an argumentative essay on the health effects of where you live and why some cultural groups are more at risk than others.