Choose a theme that you feel best addresses the current needs of your class. Read the information in the theme carefully and plan the sequence of lessons that are needed to teach the understandings and generalizations involved. Those taking the course for SUNY credit, are required to use the UBD lesson plan template provided.
Plan your instruction in such a way that allows students to hypothesize and gather or test data to prove their theories. Comment on their responses and engagement(remember pictorial or video evidence is needed). Note the students' enthusiasm when delving into a dictionary!!
Briefly summarize the lesson and reflect on its successes and/or difficulties. Use this information to determine your next steps. Send your reflections to Ann and Sharon to be posted on the blog as a resource. You can remain anonymous if you like; just let us know your wishes.
Spend some time
perusing the resource links as well. We believe you will find Pete Bowers' website
"Word Works Literacy Center" invaluable. We recommend signing up to receive his newsletters. Be sure to check out
Melvyn Ramsden's Real Spelling site with its compendious information and many resources.
Judy found a useful site that explains
Greek/Latin roots and their meanings. Remember, you may have to reinsert a single silent
e at the end of the base element to prevent a letter doubling. For example, (
scrib) is more accurately represented as (
scribe). Don't
panic, we will go over this in our next session on the 24th of October.
Keep checking the blog to either comment or discover new exciting postings and resources.
