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 Watch the video of “The Wolf’s Story”, the story of Little Red Riding Hood from the wolf’s perspective. Find your list of goals that you wanted to meet during the month of May. Did you meet them? If yes, what helped you reach your goals? If no, what prevented you from reaching your goals?
Tuesday: Free write OR Write a story about this picture
Wednesday: Free write OR An adjective is a word that describes a noun (person, place, thing). Write a story using as many adjectives as you can think of. If you’re having trouble thinking of adjectives, here are a few: funny, happy, sad, angry, clean, beautiful, little, thankful, handsome, jolly, kind, polite, worried, scary, proud, short, tall, tense, hungry, tasty.
Thursday: Free write OR Create a list with the names of everyone you know. This could include friends, family or favorite characters from stories! Then organize the names alphabetically. Up for a challenge? Arrange the names by the number of letters in them.
Friday: Free write OR Pick your favorite show to watch and write a scene of your own. Start with just two characters and one situation. To challenge yourself, add more characters or include a second situation.
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
When finished your test for this week's words, please also complete this quiz of the words from the last several sorts. If you aren't able to print it off to circle the words, please just send me a sheet with the numbers listed and the correct spelling for each word.