Week 23
Spelling and Skills
All Groups
Each child has their own personal set of words to study.
Language
A sentence has a subject and a predicate.
A subject tells who or what is doing something in the sentence.
A predicate tells what the subject is doing, or the action part.
Nouns: common – names a person, a place, or a thing
proper – names a specific person place or thing and starts with a capital letter
Verb – shows action
Abbreviations – a shortened way to write a word
Compound words – two words joined together to make one word
Commas in a series – red, yellow, and blue
Synonyms – words that mean almost the same
Irregular plurals – change y to i and add es; change f or fe to v then add es; alternate spellings
Prefix- letters added before a word to change its meaning
Suffix – letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Root word – the word before you add any other word parts
Adjectives – a word that describes a noun; Adjectives that compare – add er when comparing 2 things, add est when comparing 3 or more
Contractions – a way to shorten some words by combining 2 words, leaving out some letters and replacing them with an apostrophe
Pronoun – words that take the place of nouns
I, you, me, my, he, him, she, it, we, they, us, mine, his, her, hers, your, its, they, them, their
Comprehension Skills
Check for Understanding
Cross Checking (Does it look right, does it sound right, does it make sense?)
Back up and reread
Tune into interesting words
Monitor and Fix- up
Voracious Reading/Fluency
Nonfiction
Cause and Effect
Making Mental Pictures
Asking Questions
Fluency
Vocabulary Skill
