Phonics / Spelling

Weekly Phonics/Spelling Assignment

* Check out the PAL folder for dictation information for the week.

Spelling Words for this week:   feel  deep  wheel  sleep  teeth  feet  meet  keep

pretty won  watch  shoe

Review Sight Words for Spelling: come, one, said, two, his, where, is, are, as, put, have, pretty, there, they, want, was, what, who, you, friend  how  to  again  any  could  give  live  of  once  put  some  were  walk  know  been buy  don't  many  pull  their   would  your  does very  often  together  could would should  carry  done

New sight words:   pretty  shoe

Grades will be taken on all review sounds and new sounds learned each week.

review: mab, ma, am, Sam, sas, sab, bab, bam, fab, fam, fas, saf, baf, maf, bas, bit, his, map, pat, sat, tip, cam, sip, kit, ham,

pot, ram, lab, bin, non, fog, tick, cab, lap, nam, got, rock, sop, lol, Nan, tick, this, tip, cub, dab, pen, rack, hot, thick, pick, not, that, than, pin, tan, had, this, check, sock, dish, match, chimp, shack, fish, shin, ship, rush, vet, yam, win, which, whack, luck, sit, yum, fox, Max, quiz, quench, quilt, quit, has, is, was

Monday: /    ink/ank/onk/unk

Tuesday: /      final stable syllables

Wednesday:  - /or/

Thursday:  - /ar/

Assessment on all review letters/sounds and new letters/sounds. Dictation will include some of the sight words.

Friday:  Assessment

This is the order for drills done at home:

1. Show letter/picture cards in this order: EX: b - bat - "b"

2. Call out sounds only and student is to write the letter that makes that sound.

3. Do blending drills using with either, letter cards, letter magnets, blending board with cards, etc.  Use only the dictation I've given with each letter or what they've done prior to that letter.

4. Now, without letters to look at, call out the same dictation practiced for them to write.  Give the sounds one at a time. EX: /s/ /a/ /m/  sam

5. Very Important!!! Read back all dictation.  Do not correct mistakes until you do this step.  When students read their own mistakes, they gain an understanding of what they did wrong.  This makes the correction meaningful.

6. Keep all dictation in a 3-ring binder to use each practice session.  It aids in retention for students to repeatedly read their own dictation.

7. Go quickly through a card deck with about 10 of their "red" words each practice session.  Repetition is the key ingredient in helping the children to retain what we're teaching.  It must be a daily process.

8. Practice patience, more patience and extra patience. Never show frustration and never give up!

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