This week we launched our literacy program, EL. EL is a comprehensive literacy program developed with an equity focus built around theme-based modules in which students learn reading and writing skills. First graders are building their literacy and citizenship skills as they engage in the study of tools and work. Students are exploring how tools help do a job. The G\guiding question and big idea for our first literacy unit is: Why do we need tools? Tools make our lives easier by helping us do work and tools help us create things.
In word study, first graders have been working on blending and reading CVC (consonant-short vowel-consonant) words as well as how to segment and spell them. They are also focusing on capitalization, punctuation and word spacing when writing sentences. The first, first grade heart words have also been introduced: the, a, of, his, and is. A heart word is a high-frequency word with an irregular spelling that includes parts that are difficult to sound out or spell using typical letter/sound patterns.The term “heart word” comes from the idea that some parts of the word need to be “learned by heart.” These words were sent home in orange Thursday folders. The parts of the word that are labeled with a blue square are phonetically spelled, the parts that are labeled with a heart are the tricky parts and need to be memorized.
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