WORD STUDY Every Monday, your child will be bringing home a collection of weekly spelling words.  The words have been introduced to the children in class.  These words are individualized to meet the specific needs and level of your child.  These words reflect the spelling patterns that your child has not yet mastered.  Our goal is to have your child apply these patterns to encode (spell) future unknown words.             

Each night (M-Th) of each week, your child is expected to do a sorting activity from the list below –child chooses the sort!   On any two of these nights, your child MUST do a writing sort and record the words in their notebook.  On Thursday night, after he/she has sorted the words, they are to glue the words into their notebook to serve as a future spelling pattern reference.  Your child will hand in his/her notebook with the completed work for the week on Fridays.DIRECTIONS FOR SORTINGWriting Sort-2 nights:
Student begins with one pile of shuffled words.  Your child chooses header words (bold words) in which to sort the rest of the words.  As he/she chooses a word, he/she says the word aloud and writes it in his/her notebook forming a sort under the header words as he/she goes through the pile. Click here for a video!

Word Sort:
Student sorts the words into columns/categories as we did in school.  Your child chooses header words (bold words) in which to sort the rest of the words.  Your child should read each word aloud during this activity.  Ask your child to explain to you why these words are sorted in that particular way…what does the sort reveal about spelling in general?

Buddy Sort:
Lay down a word from each category as a header and then read the rest of the words aloud one at a time.  Your child must indicate where the word goes without seeing it.  Lay it down and let your child move it if he/she is changes their answer.  Repeat if your child makes more than one error.

Speed Sort:
Your child will sort the words into categories as fast as he/she can.  This speed feature helps children work toward automatic fluency with the feature under study.

Reading Log

Beginning today, your child will be responsible for reading at home as part of his/her homework.  The reading homework must be recorded in the student’s assignment book.

The area of where you need to record your reading is located at the bottom of each daily column.  Your child has practiced this in class so that you can refer to last week’s pages.

We ask that you and your child choose any reading material and read for at least 75 minutes per week (this breaks down to 3-5 days per week).  Examples of reading material would be books from home, library books, newspapers, poetry books, magazines, recipe books, letters, catalogs, etc.

The reading can be done on whatever days and times are convenient for you….but please remember, we are trying to develop reading for enjoyment in order to help students become life-long readers.

Each time you read, you must record the title of the material read, the amount of time spent reading, and have an adult initial in the appropriate daily column. 




Reading can be done alone, shared reading with an adult, reading to a younger sibling or an adult reading to the child.  The children practiced in school last week, so please see their assignment pad for what is expected.

Your child's reading log will be checked on Monday of each week.  
Happy Reading!