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First Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 1, “Tippy-Toe Chick, Go!”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Great Ideas:  What difference can a great idea make?	When does a problem need a clever solution?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Dipthongs ow, ou Final Syllable -le	Words with ow: brown, clown, cow, crowd, down, grown, growl, how, now, town
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
along, behind, toward, eyes, never, pulling	breath, disagreed, favorite, potato bugs, tippy-toe
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
clever, intend, predicament, grumpy, exhausted, furious, batter, griddle	Numbers 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Word Spacing

Weekly Study Skills

Unit 4, Week 6, “Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper’s House”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days.  (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Treasures: What do we treasure?	What treasures can we share with neighbors?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Suffixes: -ly, -ful	Words with Suffixes: -ly, -ful careful, gladly, nicely, painful, playful, quickly, sadly, slowly, useful, wonderful
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
told, only, across, because, dance, opened, shoes	gargoyle, heart, shiny, tuxedo, waltz
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
discover, dwell, resident, welcome, admire, sadness, tremendous, substantial	Numbers 6-10 Spacing

Weekly Skills

I hope you had a wonderful spring break! Below you will find our language arts outline for this coming week. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!

First Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 4, Week 5, “Peter’s Chair”

You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Treasures: What do we treasure?	What treasures can we share at home?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Compound Words Vowel Digraphs ue, ew, ut	Compound Words backpack, baseball, bluebird, brainstorm, flashlight, herself, inside, lunchbox, outside, suitcase
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
stood, room, thought, picture, remember	biscuits, cookies, cradle, crocodile, curtain, idea
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
jealous, relatives, sibling, secret, porridge, collector	Numbers 1-5 Word Spacing