Reading and Spelling

March 16th- March 27th

Concepts: This is easiest and trickiest at the same time. Without guided reading the best that your child can
do at home is simply read as much as they can from a book that is challenging enough to help them grow, but
that they also can manage. In terms of writing about reading, below are some ideas. Students should keep
recording on their March Madness Reading Log. I will attach that to my email. If you can’t print it, just have
them keep track on a separate piece of paper.

Response to Reading Ideas:

 Write a summary of what your read… what happened? What was important?
 Pretend you were a character… would you have done the same thing as they did?
 Describe your characters. What do they do? What are they like? What are they thinking? What do
they want most in the story?
 Make predictions before diving into a new chapter.
 Create a timeline of events from the story that shows how the story evolves from the beginning the
end.
 Explain what the problem is in the story and what the characters are doing to solve it.
 Look at a piece of dialogue. Who is the dialogue between? How is the dialogue tagged (said, shouted,
whispered, ec)? Can you tell how the characters are feeling because of the dialogue?
 Describe what you learned from the book. What else would like to know?
 Find a part in the story where a character made a mistake. What was the mistake? What happened
because of that choice?

This is also something I can help encourage by giving feedback. If students write a journal entry feel free to
snap a picture of it and send it to me.

Interactive Read Aloud-

We are studying Bridges and Ghana. I have taken home some read aloud books and I will try to figure out a
way to video tape me reading if this is something parents might want. If I am successful in that, I will send the
response to reading questions that go along with the read alouds.
Spelling for this week and next week
If you want to work on spelling, below are what we would be covering in the next two weeks. There are lists
of content words and sentences for dictation that include content words and trick words.
Red Group: Bossy r’s, ir, er, ur, ar, or
Trick Words: answer, how, different, world, down, now, many
Blue Group: Vowel teams for long “e” (ey, ee, ea, e_e)
Trick Words: head, been, little, read, want, won, whose, breakfast, sun
Trick Words For EVERYONE to practice