January 12th - 16th

📚 Literacy

Review

Click here to review what has been taught so far.

Please use the above 'review' link to review the phonics concepts taught so far.

Review Letter Sounds

Bug Club E-Books

Access reading material and games that your child can decode by clicking the purple bars below. You can record these activities as home reading.

CVC Boom Cards

💥Decodable Readers 💥

Word Work Boom Cards

Boom Phonics Games

High-Frequency Words

High-frequency words are words that students will encounter often when reading and writing. These words often, but not always, have irregular or uncommon spelling patterns making some of the sounds. Over the next few weeks, we will be reviewing some of the most common words that students probably worked on in Kindergarten.

Flash Words - Words that have regular spelling patterns and can be sounded out, but are so common that it is valuable for students to know them on sight.

Heart Words = Words that have irregular or uncommon parts that students need to remember. Often, some parts of these words are regular and students just have to remember the "tricky part."

Temporary Heart Words - Words where the tricky parts are only tricky because students have not yet learned or mastered those phonics patterns.

Learn more about heart words here: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic

This Week's Words:

have this give

have

this

give

Review past words. Click on the word to complete activities.

the I a at look see can like my you and

go no so we me he she am an on

to do is it in up of come are

for that what then when they there where

say said them was with her his all will

get did us how now from if as be

first want went

We have been reading these high frequency word poems. Read them at home too. Be sure to have your child point to each word as it is being read. This is called tracking and it helps your child focus on the words.

That Poem

Then Poem

Have Poem

Shape Shared Reading

Phonics and Word Work

We will continue to focus on nk and ng blends that are found at the end of words, like in thank and song this week. These can be especially hard for children to hear when reading and writing.

Shared Reading

The passages below are basically the same, but the one marked with an E is a little less challenging. Students who need shorter sentences and fewer tricky words are given the E passage.

We will listen and gather information on penguins to write our own non-fiction text about penguins. We will use these sentence starters to help guide our writing: