Students will continue to work on phonics and phonemic awareness. They will identify beginning and ending sounds. They will associate letter names to the correct sounds. They will recognize rhyming words, segment compound words, and will manipulate words by changing parts of the word.
1st Grade
The trick words this week are as, his, and has. Students will continue to read and write words with the following digraphs: wh, ch, sh, th, and ck. They will practice tapping out individual sounds to spell words. They will read a story about a fish through shared and choral reading. They will have the opportunity to identify learned concepts throughout the text. Such as highlighting trick words, underlining digraphs, circling capital letters, etc.
2nd Grade
Students were inspired last week from listening to Harry and the Terrible Whatzit by Dick Gackenback. They brainstormed a list of scary words and began to write scary sentences. This week they will listen to The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams. They will choose one of their sentences and will write their own scary story. They will be expected to include adjectives, capital letters, and proper punctuation. They are also expected to apply appropriate spelling skills. Students should refer to the word wall or their spelling dictionaries to spell high-frequency sight words. They should also approximate the spellings of unfamiliar words by sounding the words out.
