Literacy

During the Literacy block first graders have continued their exploration of tools. They have worked in partnerships to sort tools into different categories. They are learning to ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Next week we will conclude our study of tools with our field trip to Billings Farm on Friday October 27th.  We will leave school after lunch and return by dismissal time. 

In Word Study students learned about digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck), two letters that stick together to form one sound (along with the trigraph, tch.)  Students were taught that wh is used at the beginning of a word, while ck follows a short vowel at the end of a word.  “Heart words”  for this unit include: as, has, to, into, we, he, she, be, me, for, or.  Please practice reading and spelling these at home with your child.

Unit 2 Stories are in orange folders this week. This is a collection of daily passages that directly matched skills taught in Unit 2 during our study of three letter CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and are therefore considered decodable. "Spotlight" words are highlighted to draw the reader's attention to words that were practiced during word study that day. Please reread these familiar passages with your child FREQUENTLY to build automaticity with heart words and high frequency CVC words and reading fluency (reading at a conversational rate with expression).