Word Study

Goal - Identify language patterns
Strategy - group words based on similar patterns or sounds
Try at home - brainstorm more words with the similar pattern or sound

The Vowel "I"

Goal - Use key words from different subjects
Strategy - Define words using what you already know and your experiences

List Words
Math: attribute, graph, classify
Social Studies: region, physical, geography, natural resource, government, voting, democracy

Goal - Know the meaning of important words
Strategy - use context clues

List Words
Learn the words on your word cards



Goal - Read important words in our own books
Strategy - identify words while reading using sticky notes

List Words
Gather 10 words during the week while you read your just-right books.


Goal - Read and write unfamiliar words
Theme - Spooky words
Strategy - patterns (i.e. 'gh' or 'sh' or ending in -y)

List Words
1. mystery
2. creepy
3. ghoul
4. witch
5. ghost
6. dark
7. stormy
8. grave
9. shadow
10. shiver

Goal - Read and write familiar words
Strategy - Letter/Sound
What sound does each letter make?

List Words
1. ten
2. twenty
3. thirty
4. forty
5. fifty
6. sixty
7. seventy
8. eighty
9. ninety
10. one hundred