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
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This week we will learn about the suffix endings -ed and -ing.
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 make predictions and gather facts in this non-fiction text. How many facts do you remember?
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:
Penguins are...
Penguins can...
Penguins have...
We have started looking closely at the language used in word problems. The specific language used helps us get clues about how to solve them.
This week we will discuss the needs of animals and plants as well as the differences between wants and needs.
We will discuss how animals and plants help us in daily life and the importance of maintaining healthy environments.
Check out these images of healthy environments.
Let's compare and contrast these stories. How are they the same and how are they different?