Name: Brooke Atwood

Student Grade Level: Third Grade

After giving the Primary Spelling Inventory to my third grade, eight year old, student from a school in Rockingham County, I was able to see the stage
he is in for spelling. He was able to spell eight words correctly out of the twenty- six given. He had only missed one or two in each column until he
came to the blends category and then he began to miss more and more in each section. According to this information, my student, Peter, is middle to
late letter name- alphabetic speller. He was able to correctly include the consonants in the beginning and the end, short vowels, and digraphs of most
of the words, but then when he started with to spell with blends, common long vowels, other vowels, and inflected endings, he began to experience
difficulty. During the assessment, he sat across from me and either looked at the paper while writing or looking at me when I was giving him the word
to spell. The overall spelling assessment took roughly ten minutes and was completed during literacy time in the classroom. He is using but confusing
the vowel e for I.
Objectives for week
The students will use a word study to learn new words.
The students will use various manipulatives to work with their new word study words.
The students will practice writing with their new word study words.

SOLs for week

3.1: The student will use effective communication skills in-group activities.
a) Listen attentively by making eye contact, facing the speaker, asking questions, and summarizing what is said.
b) Ask and respond to questions from teachers and other group members.
c) Explain what has been learned.
d) Use language appropriate for context.

3.3: The student will apply word-analysis skills when reading.

a) Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns.
b) Decode regular multisyllabic words.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Pass out new word study

words to the students and go
over them in large group
setting.

The students will meet in

large group and review their
word sort words; they will
then go back to their desks
and write them in their word
study journal.

Begin in large group

reviewing the word study
words.

Begin in large group

reviewing the word study
words.

Begin in large group with one

more review of the word
study words.

Reread the read aloud

allowing children to continue
to talk about the words that
are familiar to them in the
book as well as other words
that rhyme with the word
study words in the book,
Break up into small groups
and introduce the makingwords- with- cubes game
Use direct instruction to show
the children how to play the
game and then allow them to
work in small groups to play
the game
Allow the children ample time
to practice with the game and
then play it.
Have the students come back
into large group and review
what they did during this
time.

Use choral reading with the

same read aloud today to
allow the children to practice
with the text. Have them ask
questions and point to the
words in their own books as
they read them.
Break into the same small
groups as yesterday and
continue to play the wordswith- cubes game. Have the
children try to make new
words today.

Have the students go back to

their desks and prepare for
their spelling assessment.

The students will then return

to their seats and cut out the
word sorts (pictures of the
words and then categories for
short vowel sort), they will
then put the headings up and
sort the pictures with a buddy
After they have completed
the sort, we will come back
together as a large group and
go over the different
categories.
Homework: the children will
take home their words from
their sort and write a
sentence with five of the
words to practice using them
in context.

After the students have

finished writing the words,
the will listen to the teacher
read aloud The Little Old
Lady that Wasnt Afraid of
Anything that has many of
the word study words in
there, as the words come up,
the class will discuss them.
After they have finished with
the read aloud, they will play
word hunt where they look
for pictures with the same
vowel sounds as the ones
they are studying with their
word study words, they will
complete this with a partner
in a specified time
Homework: Look for vowel
sounds that match the word
study and write them down,
we will share what you have
at your home with the same
vowel sound in class.

Homework: The students will

find a story at home (or in the
classroom, if not available at
home) that has some of their
word study words in it and
read it.

Homework: review your word

study words for the
assessment tomorrow.

The assessment will be a sort

of the words into the correct
category.
Pass out the papers with the
columns and words and allow
the students to complete
them individually.