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.)
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Question
of the Week
(This is the theme/question
for this week’s instruction in class.)
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Traditions: Are traditions and celebrations important
in our lives?
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What can we learn about
cowboy traditions?
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Phonics
Skills
(These are the letters and
sounds we are learning in class.)
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Spelling
Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to
our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
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Suffixes: -ness
(awareness), -less (careless), -able (agreeable), -ible (horrible)
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Suffixes: -ness,
-less
careless darkness
fearless fitness goodness
helpless kindness sadness
sickness thankless useless
weakness
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High-Frequency
Words
(These reading words should
be practiced and memorized.)
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Story
Words
(These reading words are
words from this week’s main selection.)
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alone buy
half many their
youngest
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campfire cattle
cowboy galloped herd
railroad trails
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Oral
Vocabulary
(Try using these words in
your conversations at home.)
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Handwriting
Practice
(Students can practice the
writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
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buckaroo climate
drover lariat legend
livestock occupation rawhide
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Letter Size
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