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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