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LESSON PLAN:
Word Parts Strategy
Word Families
■■Preparation
Learning Objective
Students will learn the meaning
of words in a word family by
understanding the meaning
of the root word.
Pacing
45–55 minutes
Suggested Readings
Teacher’s Choice
Brief Definition
A word family is a group of words that share the same root. For example, reread, reading, readable, and reader all share the root word, read.
A root is a single word that cannot be broken down into smaller words.
Most often, when students understand the meaning of the root word,
they can guess or infer the meaning of words in the word family.
Why Use This Lesson Plan?
This lesson plan suggests a sequence for classroom instruction about
one word-learning strategy. Students need word-learning strategies
because we cannot provide them with direct instruction in the meaning
of all unfamiliar words. Approximately 60% of the new words a student
encounters can be learned by analyzing their structure.
Do Before Teaching
See Also
• Chapter 9: Graphic Organizers
(Word Families)
1. Read through the lesson plan.
2. Select a News article that contains words from the same word family.
3. Write the words from the News article on the board.
4. Draw the Sample Word Family Graphic Organizer on the board.
(See next page.)
5. Print copies of the Sample Word Family Graphic Organizer for
students, if ineeded.
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Achieve3000 Lesson Plan
Word Parts Strategy: Word Families
■■Sample Word Family Graphic Organizer
Root
close
Meaning of Root
to shut, to bring together, to end, nearby
closer
a person who
ends things;
more nearby
closest
the most
nearby
closing
shutting;
getting more
near
■■Teaching Routine
Before Reading
Introduce Lesson
• Tell students that they will learn to use a strategy to understand the
meaning of words based on word families.
Teacher Direct Instruction/Modeling
• Explain that word families are groups of words that share the same
root. Remind them that a root is a single word that cannot be
broken into smaller words.
• Write a simple example of a word family on the board. Use a word
family of your choice or use the word family in the Sample Word
Family Graphic Organizer on previous page.
1. Model the following routine as you complete the graphic
organizer :
2. What is the root?
3. What is the meaning of the root?
4. How does the meaning of the root help you guess or infer the
meaning of each of the words in the word family?
5. What other words belong to this word family?
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Achieve3000 Lesson Plan
Word Parts Strategy: Word Families
Student Practice
• Read a short passage that contains at least three words from the
same word family. You can write your own passage or use the
following: Sophie noticed movement in the tree branches. She
moved closer to the window to check it out. Several small birds
were moving from branch to branch, shaking the leaves.
• Ask students to follow the routine that you modeled and complete
the graphic organizer.
• Have students create student-friendly definitions of each word.
• In small groups or as a class, discuss the student definitions.
Provide feedback that includes accurate student-friendly definitions
and ask them to confirm the meaning that they came up with.
• Optional extension activity: Have students enter their words into a
student-friendly dictionary.
During Reading
Teacher Direct Instruction/Modeling
• Identify a sentence from the article that contains one word from the
word family.
Student Practice
• Ask students to identify other words from the article (and from
elsewhere) that are part of the same word family.
• Challenge students to identify other word families within the
News article.
After Reading
Student Practice
• After they are finished reading the News article, ask students to fill in
a graphic organizer for each word family.
• In small groups or as a class, ask students to share their graphic
organizers. Have them think of other words that belong to the word
families and add these to the graphic organizer.
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