Today we began learning some new words to both read and spell. The words are often called sight words because we want the students to see them and know them...reading them by sight. Sometimes they are known as popcorn words because they keep 'popping' up in the books that we will be reading. I read a statistic that said that about 250 words made up around 80% of what we read. Knowing these words makes reading so easy!
This yellow duotang will come home every first day of the week...so on a week where a holiday falls on Monday, the duotang will come home on Tuesday. It should be returned to school on Friday please. On Friday, I will ask the students to show me how well they know the words, both reading them and printing them. It will seem like it is a spelling test, but these words should be remembered all the time...knowing them for Friday is not enough.
Usually there will be 5 words to learn plus a 'challenge' word.....to begin with the challenge words will be colour words. Each week we will also explore a word family. I will put in these words at the beginning of the week for the students. Your job is to practise both reading the words and printing the words.
One of the weekly activities will be to colour the words. These will be sent home. Would you kindly have your child cut out the rectangles and add the words to the orange pocket at the back of the doubting? This allows you to have 'flashcards' to review with and examples to spell the words (and see the size of the letters).
Have fun!
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