Greetings!
Click on the date for this week's homework assignments.
Please remember to initial the Social Development Skills Report and check for notes in the Take-Home Folder every night.
Reading is an important part of homework every day! Listen to your child read to you OR listen to them retell the story they've read. We are always working to improve FLUENCY which supports good comprehension. Fluency is reading "not too fast, not too slow, but JUST RIGHT". It also involves paying attention to puntuation and using it to have good expression.
Read-alouds to your children are still very important as they help develop your child's vocabulary, memory skills, and listening skills. Books you read aloud that are above your child's reading level also help them further develop their sense of story structure and their comprehension skills.
Spelling Routines:
Ø Write the words 5 times each.
Ø Write the words in ABC order.
Ø Write a sentence using each word.
Additional Practice ideas:
v Write the words on separate squares of paper and sort them by sounds or by patterns.
v Write the words in large “bubble” letters, decorate them, trace over them several times.
There are 3 skills involved in spelling:
1. analogies using patterns or “rules”
(word families, 2 vowel
combinations, word endings, etc.)
2. sounds (phonics)
3. memorization
