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Lesson Plan

Better Lesson: Word Detective

Curated by ACT

In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the year. Pictures and videos of the lesson in action are included.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
spelling, spelling patterns
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Additional Tags
better lesson: word detective, betterlesson, betterlesson: word detective, oh.ela-literacy.l.1.2e spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions., oh.ela-literacy.l.2.2d generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional