This is a syllable activity for 1-2 grade students. The Students will make a flip book displaying the breaking up of syllables. 

The objectives of this lesson is that  

• Students will be able to identify syllable boundaries. 
• Students will be able to pronounce and spell words syllable by syllable.

Teacher will go over the five rules of syllabication with students. On a smart board, the teacher will write examples of words that apply to each rule and model for students how to break them up. Then the teacher will call a couple students up to the board to see if they can break them up themselves.

1. Students will go on a syllable word hunt throughout their reading book. The goal is to find 7 multisyllabic words.

2. The teacher will call up students one by one to verify their 7 words that they found.

3. The teacher will hand out 4 pieces of white construction paper to each student.

4. Students will fold the papers in such a way to make a flip book. Teacher will go around assisting students make the flip book. The teacher can also assign some student helpers to go around and also help their peers. The book should have 8 tabs.

5. With the words the students found, they must now fill in each tab of the tabs, with the first one being where the title goes “Break It Up”.

6.  On the tab students will write one of their words. On the inside the student will write that word broken up, placing dashes in between syllables. For example, the tab will say “maple”. On the inside students will write “ma-ple”. Students will also write the number of syllables.

 Closure Activity: Each student will share one word that they broke down with the class. The teacher will write the word on the board, and the student will lead the class how to break up the word into the amount of syllables. The class will clap it out together. 

This lesson plan is great for all types of learners and makes learning syllables alot more fun and creative!

Compound Words

The objective of this lesson is to help students understand the formation of compound words. It also promotes critical thinking skills as students brainstorm compound words that they use everyday. 

To begin, read a grade level book with the class and choose a couple key words from the story that can combine to form compound words. In this particular lesson, the book used is "Once There was a Bullfrog" by Rick Walton. 
After you read the book, put a list of a few words on the board from the story and brainstorm some words to add that made compound words.

sun

snow

water

dog

sand

lunch

Now it is time for students to come up with some compound words of their own. Give each student a piece of construction paper and have them tri-fold it so that the flaps meet in the middle. Cut the flaps into 5-6 strips.

Have the children draw and write the two words on each outside flap.

Example:  cup on one flap, cake on the other.

Then they open the two flaps (think of barn doors) and on the inside they write the compound word and draw a picture of a cupcake.

Then the projects can be displayed on a bulletin board or tape them up somewhere so the kids can go over

and read the two words then open the flaps and see the compound word.

This is an enjoyable lesson on compound words because it addresses visual and kinesthetic learning strategies. It is also an excellent lesson plan for ESE, particularly ELL students who are having trouble with word combinations. It will help their brain generate the word patterns being formed and help create meaning to the words. 

This lesson plan can be found at http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/4321.html

(pictures taken by Maria Santos)