This week's focus has been learning about more vowel teams. Vowel teams are two or more letters that work together to make one sound.
Lesson 90: oo - /ew/
We have learned that the vowel team oo can spell the sound /oo/ as in book but it can also spell the sound /ew/ as in spoon.
OO spells the /ew/ sound in the middle of a word like in soon and food. It can also spell that at the end of a word like in too and boo. Finally, it can spell that sound at the beginning of the word like in oops and ooze.
In this week's text called, The Groom is Late!, students are looking for all the words that have the vowel team oo that males that /ew/ sound. They are looking to highlight (the whole word that has that spelling pattern), followed up with illustrating a picture of the story. Be careful for spelling patterns that are included in the story that include the oo that makes the the /oo/ sound from last week or the heart words we have been learning! We are specifically looking for the /ew/ sound that oo can make.
Lesson 91: ew, ui, ue u - /ew/
We have learned that oo spells that /ew/ sound like in the middle of the word spoon. There are three more vowel teams that can make that same /ew/ sound.
ew /ew/: The sound /ew/ can be spelled with the letters ew. It comes at the end of a word like in flew and grew.
ui /ew/: The sound /ew/ can also be spelled with ui and comes in the middle of a word like suit and juice.
ue /ew/: The sound /ew/ can also be spelled with the ue spelling pattern and comes at the end of the word like glue and sue.
In this week's text called, Cruise Ship Trip, students are looking for all the words that have the letter teams that makes the /ew/ sound based on the ew, ui and ue spelling patterns to highlight (the whole word that has that spelling pattern), followed up with illustrating a picture of the story. Be careful for spelling patterns that are included in the story that just include any letter e, u, w or combinations. We are specifically looking for the ew sound combinations from ew, ui and ue making that special /ew/ sound.
Heart (Irregular) Words of the Week
Heart words are words that do not decode or follow the spelling rules that we have been learning. We have to know them by 'heart'. However, once we learn more spelling rules, they may be only temporary heart words and the rules will come along later! In the meantime, we have been focusing on reviewing and learning the words below.
Heart (Irregular) Words of the Week
Heart words are words that do not decode or follow the spelling rules that we have been learning. We have to know them by 'heart'. However, once we learn more spelling rules, they may be only temporary heart words and the rules will come along later! In the meantime, we have been focusing on reviewing and learning the words below.
This week we are reviewing:
- four (vs for)
- pretty
- always
- almost
- floor
- poor
- door
And we are introducing as new words:
- won (vs one)
- son (vs sun)
- month
Fluency Grids
With each story, there is a fluency grid with the lesson focus that is intended to help students recognize the phonics rule and assist in reading it with accuracy and automaticity. At home, challenge your young reader to read the word (aim is to decode/read each word within 3 seconds) and then recall it each time they see it within the grid of mixed up, repeated words. A couple minutes of practice is all they need. This acts as a warm up before reading the text that also applies the same skill while building on all the previous skills as well. Each week we are building on the previous week to become more fluent readers so we can focus on what the text is sharing rather than spending all the time decoding the words.
**If this is too much at home with all the other things you are busy with, we totally understand! We will be using it in the classroom and saving paper to keep them all together in one spot. Thank you in advance if you do give it a whirl as another way to support your little reader based on the Science of Reading.**
Homework Reminders
With each story, there is a fluency grid with the lesson focus that is intended to help students recognize the phonics rule and assist in reading it with accuracy and automaticity. At home, challenge your young reader to read the word (aim is to decode/read each word within 3 seconds) and then recall it each time they see it within the grid of mixed up, repeated words. A couple minutes of practice is all they need. This acts as a warm up before reading the text that also applies the same skill while building on all the previous skills as well. Each week we are building on the previous week to become more fluent readers so we can focus on what the text is sharing rather than spending all the time decoding the words.
**If this is too much at home with all the other things you are busy with, we totally understand! We will be using it in the classroom and saving paper to keep them all together in one spot. Thank you in advance if you do give it a whirl as another way to support your little reader based on the Science of Reading.**
Homework Reminders
Students have been working on stories in their UFLI Stories book that comes home on Friday. At school, they work with a partner to complete their fluency grid, read with someone their story, highlight the focus words and illustrate a picture for the text. At home, students are to finish highlighting and completing the story and read to an expert at home. After completing, parents are to initial. You are welcome to still record this reading on student reading logs in their Snuggle Up & Read. And also welcome to go back and read any other stories in the UFLI book as well. We want to reward all the practice students are doing!
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
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