Word Work and Games
SightWordNinja.mp4Week of 2/15: Please practice reading and spelling our February high frequency words (11 total) with Brin. Please have a grown up at home "quiz" you on your spelling to make sure you know them all.
FebSightWords.mp4SightWordPractice.mp4Week of 1/27: Please practice reading and spelling our latest 20 high frequency words with Brin. Email me your "score" when you are done. How many out of 15 did you spell correctly?
High Frequency (or "sight) Words are listed on the YELLOW paper in your child's Red or Yellow "Literacy" folder that was sent home in their basket. Students should practice reading AND writing all sight words. It is normal that correct spelling may be more challenging than accurate reading at this point. Please practice BOTH.
Week of 1/19 new sight words: long, down, day, come, made
Week of 1/11 new sight words: who, am, its (showing possession), now, find
Week of 12/14: new sight words: than, first, water, been, called
Week of 12/7 new sight words: no, could, people, way, my
Week of 11/30 new sight words: more, write, go, see, number
You can watch the following videos to review our first 81 sight words! Each video is about 2 minutes long. Practice until you can read automatically!
SightWordsList1.mp4Sight words Part 1
SightWordList2.mp4Sight words Part 2
SightWordList3.mp4Sight words Part 3
SightWordList4.mp4Sight words Part 4
5 new sight words for the week of 10/19 are: up, other, about, out, many.
Practice with Brin in the video below:
HFW_10.19Week.mp4Past Sight Words Introduced:
Week of 11/16: into, time, has, look, two
Week of 11/2: her, would, make, like, him
Week of 10/26: then, them, these, so, some
Week of 10/19: up, other, about, out, many
5 new sight words for the week of 10/5 are: do, how, there, if, will
10 new sight words for the week of 9/28 are: when, your, can, said, there, use, an each, which, she
10 more words to review the week of 9/21 are: one, had, by, word, but, not, what, all, were, we
The first 25 sight words to review the week of 9/14 are: the, of, and, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they, I, at, be, this, have, from, or
A link to online flashcards for our first 45 High Frequency Words can be found HERE.
Past Weeks: tutorials and games:
Watch Brin's quick video to explain this week's "Mad Libs Fluency Game".
MadLibsGame.mp4Remember:
common noun = any old person, place or thing
proper noun = SPECIFIC noun. Capital letter.
predicate = what the noun does
action verb = the action you can see in a predicate
For a challenge, you can write your OWN mad lib and email it to Brin. I'll include it for a future week!
A "choose to" activity this week of 9/21 is "Roll and Read Sentences" with CVC and CVCC words. Click on the video to watch directions. My 10 sentences, are to the right, or for a challenge, you could write your own and play with those!
RollAndReadCVC_CCVC_SentencesGame.mp4RollAndReadCVCGame.mp4Roll and Read CVC Words
In this 3 minute video, Brin will guide you though what a "CVC" word is, and how to set up a gameboard to play "Roll and Read CVC Words" game. You will need a 6-sided die and the template from your literacy folder (or a blank piece of paper works too!).
CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) and CCVC (consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant) words to choose from to write on your "Roll and Read" game board this week:
Real CVC words: sad, map, rag, nap, rig, lid, sip, fit, lip, Sid, lap, nip, rot, lot, fog, mop, rod, mud, fix, lid, Ted, dot, hip, bed, web, peg
Nonsense CVC words: sut, vid, weg, kiz, zat, dep, pob, dem, vib, sot, jix, quib, zeg, yut, fap, wog, lub, jid, jit, dap, fif, foz, gad
Real CCVC or CVCC words: much, rock, quit, moth, such, shot, this, thin, sick, rush, math, whip, chin, dash, Rick, them, shut, hush
Nonsense CCVC words: hosh, fash, poth, choz, mish, mosh, shom, hoth, slox, brab, flid, thop
Click on the Umbrella to access this week's PA videos.
Watch and follow along with the teacher at home.
Click on the OWL to access online books and word cards related to this week's phonics concepts.