Muggie Maggie - Lesson 7
Objective: Students will be able to:
Use
simple strategies to determine meaning and increase vocabulary for reading
including use of multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word relations.
Read text and determine the main idea, identify relevant supporting details.
Write a personal letter using the correct form.
Materials:
Book: Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
White piece of paper
Computer with Internet and word processing
Worksheet (vocabulary)
Vocabulary: admitted, announced, anxious, cross, desperate, ferocious, frantic, informed, ragged, shabby, stern, tousled, peculiar, tittered, frantically, distinguished
Working with words: The teacher will introduce plural and irregular nouns by writing samples on the board, then monitor as students make a list of plural and irregular nouns they find in chapter seven. Students will go online to Fact Monster (look under Word Wise and click on The Plural Girls) and complete activities on plural and irregular nouns.
Activity: The teacher will...
1. Begin lesson by having the students share their prediction of chapter seven. (enter predictions into computer-generated journal)
2. Review vocabulary words and definitions from chapter six.
3. Introduce new vocabulary words and definitions for chapter seven.
4. Give each student a white piece of paper, and have them fold it into sixteen pieces. (students can also use word processing and create a table with two columns and eight rows as their boxes; then type, add clipart and graphics)
5. Have students write each vocabulary word, definition and illustration in each box.
6. Read and discuss chapter seven.
7. Have the students go online to Dictionary.com to find synonyms and antonyms for their vocabulary words.
8. Have the students go online to complete a vocabulary activity, print out the worksheet and complete it.
Evaluation: Students will write a letter to a classmate giving them advice on cursive writing and at least three things they can do to improve their cursive writing and answer the following questions:
How does Maggie teach herself to read and write cursive?
Why does Maggie decide that neatness counts in cursive writing?
Home Learning:
Students
will go online to PuzzleMaker to create a
crossword puzzle with their vocabulary words.
Students
will go online to complete a comprehension
activity, print out the worksheet and complete it.
Write a
prediction for chapter eight.
