Optional Additional at Home Word Work
Many families are custom to doing weekly spelling tests. You are welcome to use these lists to do home practice tests if you wish. In my classroom I do not do a formal "test". The testing puts a lot of anxiety and pressure on students. I believe students should feel successful to create a joy of learning, reading and writing. Science of reading states that focusing on phonic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension creates strong independent readers and writers. Throughout this year, I will be sending home activities that focus on all these areas. Time spent building these skills will help your child be a stronger reader and speller with new words instead of memorizing a set of lists.
You are welcome to go through these at home at your pace.
Below each week there is a file to download. You can print 2 sets of cards and cut into squares to play memory or print once to play as tic tac toe, (do not cut) (choose 2 different buttons/coins). If you can read the word, you get to put your mark on the word. The first person with three in a row wins!
Each week students can:
You are welcome to go through these at home at your pace.
Below each week there is a file to download. You can print 2 sets of cards and cut into squares to play memory or print once to play as tic tac toe, (do not cut) (choose 2 different buttons/coins). If you can read the word, you get to put your mark on the word. The first person with three in a row wins!
Each week students can:
- READ IT
- WRITE IT
- DRAW IT
- For "read it", students can circle the super-sounds to help them sound out the words, then read each sound in the word and blend them together. Super sounds are when multiple letters make a new sound. In the word bon, ON is one sound, b-on.
- For "write it", students can write the words in marker, highlighter, etc... Basically anything that makes them happy to write. They can also colour the super-sounds in a different colour.
- For "draw it", students should make a picture of the word that makes sense to them. They can also choose to draw an entire picture (using all of the words of the week) then label their picture.