Compound Words Tiered Assignment
Illinois Learning Standards
| 1A |
Students who meet the standard can apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections. |
Stage A Performance Descriptors:
Use appropriate strategies of decoding (e.g., illustrations, phonics, word patterns, context clues) to recognize unknown words when reading material.
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Process
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| Beginning |
Use the provided words to decide the correct order of pairs to make familiar compound words. |
Make a poster that illustrates each simple word and the new compound word they form. |
| Developing |
Look around the classroom and in books to find examples of compound words. |
Write out the discovered compound words and illustrate them in a booklet. |
| Secure |
Write a poem or story that uses compound words (student generated) that make the story or poem interesting. |
Illustrate the compound words to make the story or poem interesting to look at as well as to read. |
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