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|Reading Lesson: Alphabetizing Words |Grade Level: 3 |

|Lesson Summary: Students will review how to arrange words in alphabetical order. Students will receive an index card with a word. Each will go to the board and |

|arrange and rearrange words until all words have been posted and arranged in correct order. Students will select topics and arrange words that belong with that |

|topic in correct order. Students will then play an alphabet maze game to reinforce skill. Advanced learners will create a word search puzzle and the teacher will |

|work with struggling learners by mixing up words used in Guided Practice and guiding students to arrange them in correct order. |

|Lesson Objectives: |

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|The students will know… |

|• that words can be alphabetized by checking the first few letters of each word. |

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|The students will be able to… |

|alphabetize words up to the third letter in each word. |

|Learning Styles Targeted: |

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|Visual |

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|Auditory |

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|Kinesthetic/Tactile |

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|Pre-Assessment: |

|Remind students that the letters in a word can be used to put words in alphabetical order. |

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|List 6-8 words on the board. Ask students which word comes first in alphabetical order. Rewrite the list with the words in the correct order. |

|Whole-Class Instruction |

|Materials Needed: PowerPoint Alphabet Maze game*, index cards (one for each student in the class plus one), poster board, and tape |

|Procedure: |

|Presentation |

|Before class, write a word on each index card. Shuffle the cards. Display a large sheet of poster board in front of the class. |

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|Give each student a card, saving one for you. Explain that you are going to put the words in alphabetical order. Place your card on the poster board to start. |

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|Guided Practice |

|Call each student to the board one at a time. Instruct each student to place his/her card on the board and to stack the cards in the correct alphabetical order. |

|Continue until all cards are on the board in order. |

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|Independent Practice |

|Ask each student to select a topic, such as foods, sports, or types of clothes. Ask each student to list 8 words for each topic and write them in alphabetical |

|order. |

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|Display the students’ lists and combine them into an alphabetized word bank. |

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|Closing Activity |

|Using the PowerPoint*, play the Alphabet Maze game with the class. If possible, have students play game individually. If not, have students vote and teacher should|

|advance to the slide that received the most votes. |

|Advanced Learner |

|Materials Needed: list of words from the word bank, paper, and pencils |

|Procedure: |

|Ask students to choose 10 words from the word bank and create a word search puzzle incorporating the words. |

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|Have students trade their puzzles with a classmate and solve each other’s puzzles. |

|Struggling Learner |

|Materials Needed: list of alphabetized words from the board |

|Procedure: |

|Copy the list of alphabetized words from the board in mixed-up order. Distribute the list to students and ask them to put the list in alphabetical order. Students |

|may work in pairs or groups. |

*see supplemental resources

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