Reading: Students should spend at least 20 minutes reading a book at their level. Preferably they will read out loud so they can hear themselves and you can hear them to ensure they are using reading strategies and trying to read with expression and good flow.
Writing: Students should spend about 20 minutes writing, which may look different every day (ie. journal entry, writing prompt, picture prompt, story writing, concept practice worksheets, other task, etc.).
Daily Language Review
Writing tasks for week
Spelling: Students should spend 10-20 minutes per day working on their spelling words for the week to ensure they can understand the rule for the sort and the spelling of the words. On the last day of the week, I will upload an audio file of the test words.
Daily Language
Writing Tasks
Spelling
Read Aloud
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The learning package included several weeks worth of Daily Language Review, but copies are provided below along with answer keys for each. When completing the Daily Language Review make sure you follow the directions for each question. When fixing the sentences, ensure you're checking for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors. Please email a scanned copy or a picture of your completed work at the end of the week, or daily if you prefer, to [email protected].
Daily Language Groups: Yellow - Francis, Justin, Leland, Roshawn Green - Gabe, Georgia, Kirya, Tyrone, Xavier Blue - Annika, Dalton, Devin, Ethan, Gavin, Hailey, Shara
Helpful resources for completing Daily Language Review:
Students should be spending 15-20 minutes each day writing. They can do with with pencil and paper or by typing. The assignments are also set up on Google Classroom and can be submitted there. You can email a scanned copy or picture of your completed writing work each day or at the end of the week to [email protected].
Reminders for writing tasks:
You should be using topic sentences, details, and closing sentences.
Write at least 5 sentences, but try to write as much as possible.
Always check your work for COPS (capitals, organization, punctuation, and spelling).
Don't forget about Ws and H of writing (who, what, when, where, why, how, and so what) when writing.
Be creative!
Tasks for this week:
Monday: Free write OR Make a tongue twister and challenge everyone at home to say it as fast as they can.
Pick a consonant.
Write down as many words as you can think of that start with that letter.
Make up a sentence that uses as many of your words as possible!
Wednesday: Free write OR Create a list of words that describe yourself and a separate list for your best friend. How do they overlap? What similarities do you share?
Thursday: Free write OR Can you come up with a positive adjective that describes a person for each letter of the alphabet? Once you’ve filled in as many as you can, write your family member’s names next to adjectives that describe them. Don’t forget your pets!
Friday: Free write OR It’s a brand new month! Write a letter to yourself about all the things you want to accomplish in May. Set at least 3 different goals for yourself. After submitting it, put the letter somewhere safe and don’t look at it until the month is over! It will be fun to look back on what you wrote
Words Their Way is the spelling program we used in class. The students should be familiar with the routine, though it will be slightly different working on the words independently at home instead of in groups at school. Several weeks worth of word sorts and tests were provided in the learning package, but all will be available on this site and on Google Classroom as well. The test words will be made available as early as noon on Thursdays for students who feel they are ready to be tested before the end of the week, and tests should be completed and submitted by Friday at 5:00pm. You can submit through Google Classroom or email your word sorts and tests to me at [email protected].
Suggested weekly routine for spelling:
Monday - Cut out or write down your words and sort them.
Tuesday - Speed sort your words and read them all out loud. Check the YouTube and answer key (on website) to make sure you’re correct.
Wednesday - Practice writing all your words, try not to look after first seeing what word to write.
Thursday - Have a family member test you on your words. Make sure you’re spelling them correctly and putting them under the right heading.
Friday - Test (audio for test on Google Classroom and website).
Spelling Groups: Yellow - Francis, Justin, Leland, Roshawn Green - Gabe, Georgia, Kirya, Tyrone, Xavier Purple - Ethan Blue - Annika, Dalton, Devin, Gavin, Hailey, Shara