October 2, 2017

by Mia Perez

Lesson plan

It’s Game Time: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels

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Contents

Grade

Fourth Grade

Subject

Reading & writing

Letter Sound Relationships
- R-Controlled Vowels

Standards

RF.4.3.a

Standards

English Language Arts and Reading

Grade 3
- 3.2.A.ii
- 3.2.B.i
Grade 4
- 4.2.A.ii
- 4.2.B.i
Grade 5
- 5.2.A.ii
- 5.2.B.i

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English

Key Stage 2 Year 4
- 3.2.B.6

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Materials and preparation

Class set of Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels Board Game
One set of Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels: Stand Up! sorting cards (Note: cut prior to lesson)
Chart paper
Class set of game pieces (e.g. beans, counters, paper clips, etc.)
Class set of paper strips (one strip of paper per student)
Class set of Word Sort: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels (optional)

Key terms

R-controlled vowel
multisyllabic words

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify, read, and create multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels.

Introduction

(5 minutes)

Write the vowels A,E, I, O, and U on the board.
Call on students to make both the long and short sounds for each vowel.
Then add an R next to each vowel. Tell students that when a vowel is followed by an R the vowel no longer makes the long or short vowel sound. Instead, it makes a new sound. These are called R-controlled vowels.
Model for the students how to pronounce each new vowel combination: ar, er, ir, or, and ur. Point out that er, ir, and ur all make the same ur sound as in "fur."

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(10 minutes)

Ask students to brainstorm a list of words that have the R-controlled vowel combination.
Write students’ ideas on the board.
Tell students that today they are going to focus on multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowel combinations.
Tell students that multisyllabic words are words with more than one syllable.
Look through the students’ brainstormed list and ask students to identify whether or not any of these words are multisyllabic.

Guided Practice

(10 minutes)

Write ar, er, ir, or, and ur at the top of chart paper.
Ask students to brainstorm a list of multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowel combinations and write their ideas under each heading.
Write the world garlic on the board. Tell students that this word has two syllables and two vowels. Since the R follows the A, the ar should stay together in the same syllable. Therefore, garlic is divided as gar/lic.
Call on students to come to the chart paper and practice dividing the multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels on their brainstormed list.
Tell students that they should use this technique of breaking up a word by its syllables if they need assistance decoding a word.

Independent working time

(20 minutes)

Tell students that they will be using multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels to create and play their own board games.
Show students the Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels Board Game template and instruct them to fill in the blank squares with one multisyllabic word that has an R-controlled vowel.
Once they are done completing the board game, tell them to find a partner and take turns playing each other’s game.
Refer students to the instructions at the top of the board game page if they have questions about how to play the game.

Differentiation

Support:

For students who need extra support, give them the option to write single syllable words with R-controlled vowels on their board game or give them the board game with the multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels already filled into each of the blank squares so that the students can focus on reading the words.
Use the worksheet Word Sort: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels for students to get extra practice with this skill.

Enrichment:

For students who need an extra challenge, ask them to fill in each blank square on their board game with a sentence containing a multisyllabic words with an R-controlled vowel as opposed to a single word.
For advanced students, connect two board games so that the students are challenged to think of more multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels.

Assessment

(10 minutes)

Call students to the rug and have them sit in a circle.
Distribute the Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels: Stand Up! sorting cards and give one card to each student.
Ask students to sit in a circle.
Hold up one of the R-controlled vowel combination signs and have students make the sound of this vowel combination.
Instruct the students holding a word card containing this vowel combination to stand up. Ask each of the students who stand up to read their word aloud.
Collect the cards, mix them up, and repeat.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)

Distribute one small strip of paper to each student.
Tell students these are exit slips and they must write their name along with one multisyllabic word with an R-controlled vowel on this slip.
Students will attach their slip to a classmates’ strip to create one long classroom word chain for the students to continue to add to throughout the week.

Lesson plan

It’s Game Time: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

Guided Practice

Independent working time

Differentiation

Assessment

Review and closing

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