First Grade Early Support

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	First Grade Early Support

Dear Families,

Another great week of reading and writing! This week had less morning interruptions, which allowed us to read together in small groups everyday! As the new sight words and word families are introduced, please don’t forget to continue to practice the old ones. We want the kids to blend sounds with ease and know their sight words in a snap! Practice makes perfect!

Take Home Reader- Please read The Big Sun each night. Use the story to help you complete your homework for Wednesday night.

Take Home Activities-Please complete your Take Home Activities using your neatest handwriting. Keep up the spectacular homework. You are fabulous first graders!

Mystery Word- Please cut out the letters at the bottom of the Mystery Word page. Allow your child to rearrange the letters to build small words. Try to use all the letters to decode the mystery word. Feel free to get involved…we try to make this activity fun for the whole family!

Reading- Please set aside 15-20 minutes EVERY night for your child to read to you. Nightly reading is by far the MOST important part of our weekly homework.

Friday Journal- Your child’s Friday Journal came home today. Please let him/her read his/her entry to you. Write a positive note to your child about his/her entry on the same page. Send this back to school on Monday!

Sight Words

Keep practicing…

no ride

small out

New sight words…

saw very

want two

Spelling- Dictation

Try spelling these words!

hop hot

lock not

rock top

Writing Workshop

Focusing on the Most Important Part- Thinking about the most important part of our stories and making that aspect of our stories important by adding details and cutting away other parts.

Internalizing Story Shapes- Producing stories that have a beginning, middle and end.

Revealing Internal Stories- Helping children unfold and reveal the internal story. This includes the reactions, thoughts, observations and feelings in the stories.

Reading Workshop

Theme- Perspective

Story- The Bug Bath

Skills Covered

Phonics and decoding (word families)-

Short o- ob, ox, ot, ock, og, op, on, od

Vocabulary Skills

Inflectional Ending -ed

You can use what you already know to help yourself read words you don’t know. When you add –ed to the end of a word it tells about something that happened in the past.

Comprehension-

Story Elements

Understanding who the characters are and what they say, do, and feel can help you better understand the plot, or what is happening in the story.

Study Skills-

Reading a Map

A map tells how far apart things are.

Grammar-

Plural Nouns

A noun is a word that names a person, place or thing. Add s or es to the end of a noun to name more than one.

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