Lesson 18 - Prefix and Compound Words

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STARHUB-CENTRAL SINGAPORE NURTURE PROGRAMME

NURTUREPLUS LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

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Part Duration Lesson Materials

1 10minutes READING FLUENCY

Objective:To check / monitor students progress in

reading

1. Make students refer to their files andtake a look at all the difficult words they

have written in them.2. Get students to pronounce the words as

they have been taught.While a particular student reads:

1. Teacher corrects any mistakes made.2. The rest will read on their own while

waiting for their turn.

Reading Material:Own list of difficult

words taken fromprevious books

read

2 10minutes

WORD STUDY

Objective:

Students will recap the definition ofprefixes and recall how they change themeaning of words when added to them.

1. Engage student by asking them todescribe what a prefix is.

2. Show students two prefixes taught misand un and get student response on

their meanings.

3. Show students some root word andprefix cards and make them match toform a new word.

4. Make them guess the meanings of thenew words formed.

5. Discuss student answers and correctstudent mistakes.

6. Review the rule of prefixes taught andcheck student understanding bychecking their worksheets.

Whiteboard / Flipchart (to explain as a

large group)

/ Small magneticboards (to explain in

small groups)

Teacher Resource:Lesson 18

Student Worksheet:Lesson 18

3 30 INSTRUCTIONAL READING Reading Material:


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minutesObjective:Students will retell how they have been

surprised before and describe how they

felt when they were given such asurprise.

Before reading:

1. Pass the passage to students.2. Engage student interest by asking them

to guess what the story is about by

looking at the title.

3. Discuss student answers.Reading:

1. Make students read books in their owngroups.

2. Ask students to write difficult words ontheir worksheet and guide their

understanding.3. Get students to focus on the element of

surprise found in all the books they arereading.

After reading:

1. Get student response on what they feltafter reading the book.

2. Ask them what is the element ofsurprise as found in the book.

3. Make students recall a time when theywere surprised by someone or an event

and make them jot down as a diaryentry what the experience was all about.

4. Ask students to highlight how they feltduring the experience.

5. Get students to share their experienceswith other group members.

Own PM+ Levelbooks for eachgroup (depends on

proficiency level of

each studentgroup)

HA: The Bully (Level

23)MA: A Surprise forZac (Level 17)

LA: The Beach

House (Level 9)

Student Worksheet:Lesson 18

Teacher Resource:Lesson 18


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4 10

minutes

WRITING

Objective:Students will improve writing fluency

1. Review words with the prefixes learnt inthe lesson and encourage students towrite as many words as they canremember from the words they have

seen or read.

2. Ask each student to stand up and readthe words they have written and shareto the class.

3. Monitor and help students with theirspelling and pronunciation.

Student Worksheet:

Lesson 18

5 20

minutes

BOARD GAMES (review of Compound

Words)

Objective:Students will reinforce their

understanding in topics taught (in this

lesson or previous) by engaging ineducational games.

1. Hand out word cards containing brokenup compound words, prefixes learnt androot words.

2. Get students to match them correctlyand group them according to compound

words and words with prefixes.3. Get student response on the meanings of

the new words formed.4. Correct student mistakes and if time

permits, let students play any other

board games.

Teacher Resource:

Lesson 18

Student Worksheet:

Lesson 18

If time permits, anyother board games

that students have

not played before.


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Part 2:Word Study

Words with Un Words with Mis

Unpopular Mislead

Unfit Misname

Unlike Misuse

Unclean Misfit

Unglamorous Misconduct

Game: Some of the word cards are purposely given even though they cannot formwords. (e.g hap)

Un Stand Break Mis Un

Fast Bee Mis House Fair

Hap Fresh Shoot Took Happy

Der Taken Fly Broken Horn

Hive Button Claim Green Cook


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Students Worksheet

LESSON 18: PREFIX AND (REVIEW OF) COMPOUND WORDS

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Name: _________________________________________________________ Date: _____________________

Part 2: Word Study

Guess the meaning of the words with the prefix.

Words with un Meaning Words with mis meaning

Unpopular Mislead

Unfit Misname

Unlike Misuse

Unclean Misfit

Part 3: Instructional Reading (Title of story: A Spider in my Bedroom Level 19)

VOCABULARY

Do you like surprises? Have you gotten any surprises? What are the surprises you havegotten before? Write short notes here and share with your friends.

Write down the difficult words here.


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Record what your surprise was and how you felt in the diary below.

Part 4: Writing

Write as manyplural

words that end with ies that you have learnt or come across

today in box below in the shortest time possible.

Dear Diary,

Today I had a surprise which was

I feel


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Check Time:

How do you feel after todays lesson? (Tick the box)

Why do you feel so?

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What have you learnt today?

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