Sample Lessons

A Sample Lesson from The Tan Teacher Book

Lesson 5

Little House in the Big Woods

Teacher's Note: As your student completes each lesson, choose skills from the Review Activities that he needs. The Review Activities follow each lesson.

For breakfast there were pancakes, and Ma made a pancake man for each one of the children. Ma called each one in turn to bring her plate, and each could stand by the stove and watch, while with the spoonful of batter Ma put on the arms and the legs and the head. It was exciting to watch her turn the whole little man over, quickly and carefully, on a hot griddle. When it was done, she put it smoking hot on the plate.

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Used by permission, Harper and Row.

1. a. Listen as your teacher reads the literature passage. Write the passage from dictation. Compare your copy with the model, correcting the spelling and punctuation.

b. Locate the word with the suffix -ful. The suffix -ful means full of. This suffix usually changes a word into an adjective. Which adjective question does spoonful answer in the literature passage? How does the suffix -ful change the meaning of the root word spoon? Add -ful to your suffix list. Also fill in the definition, part of speech, and word examples.

c. The prefix ex- also appears in the literature passage. It means forth or out. Locate the word in the literature passage that has the prefix ex- . Add this prefix to your list along with the definition and word examples.

d. Choose four to six words from the literature passage for your spelling list this week or use the following suggested list.

breakfast pancake exciting

griddle smoking children

Notice that the words breakfast and pancake are nouns that are made up of two separate complete words. These are called compound words.

Lesson 5

Little House in the Big Woods

Teacher's Note: As your student completes each lesson, choose skills from the Review Activities that he needs. The Review Activities follow each lesson.

1.
b. The suffix tells how much was in the spoon.

ful - full of
adjective (PS)

possible word examples: restful, beautiful

c. exciting
ex-; forth or out; Possible examples: exclaim, expel

Lesson 5

Little House in the Big Woods

Teacher's Note: As your student completes each lesson, choose skills from the Review Activities that he needs. The Review Activities follow each lesson.

1. b. The suffix tells how much was in the spoon.

ful - full of adjective (PS)

possible word examples: restful, beautiful

c. exciting ex-; forth or out; Possible examples: exclaim, expel

1.
b. The suffix tells how much was in the spoon.

ful - full of
adjective (PS)

c. exciting
ex-; forth or out; Possible examples: exclaim, expel