Monday, March 3, 2014

Spelling Words

Please remember that due to parent teacher conferences this week there is no school on Friday. The spelling test will be on Thursday.


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.)

Responsibility:  What does it mean to be responsible?

Why should we be responsible for doing a good job?
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, -er, -or, -ish

Suffixes:

cheerful   fighter   graceful   hardly   helper   quickly   sailor   slowly   teacher   visitor   weekly   yearly
High-Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
break   family   heard   listen   once   pull

building   burning   masks   quickly   roar   station   tightly

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.)
caretaker   community   instrument   lug   operation   responsible   supplies   teamwork

Letter Smoothness

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