Phonograms

-Spalding App: Spalding has a great app available for purchase in any app store. It has a cost of about $4. The app has every phonogram and the correct sounds. If your child is struggling to sound their phonograms during homework this is a great tool to utilize.

You can find it here: https://www.spaldingeducation.org/spalding-app

-Reading Spelling Words: We underline two letter phonograms in every spelling word. Play Hunting for Phonograms. Give your child a phonogram, have them look for it in their spelling words. After they find it sound out and read the word.

-Phonograms in Reading: While you're reading if you see a phonogram pause and identify the phonogram, the sounds, and the words. If it is a book you plan to read again or a book your child struggles to read independently you can even underline the phonogram in pencil to help them read the next time.

Spelling

-Read for Spelling and Read for Reading: Every day in class when we finished writing our words in our notebooks we we "Read for Spelling". This means every word gets broken down into its sounds and then read. (d-ay....day....r-e-d....red....wr-i-t-e....write...etc.) Then we read them as if they were in a book (day, red, write, etc.) Your child should be sounding the words out while they write the words for homework anyway, so this is an easy way to practice the words one more time.

-Trace, Copy, Cover: On their blue papers students can trace over the words you wrote (or trace it in their notebook, then use the word to write it again, then cover up the word and write it without looking.

-Have your student write each word on a sticky note and put them around the house on things they use frequently and before they can do/use that item they have to practice the word/s on that object. Practice can be snuck in anywhere, but it is extremely important that they sound out the words before putting them together. If they can't sound out a word do it for them once or twice, then have them do it 1 time with you and 2 times on their own.