Students receive spelling words on Wednesday and will be assessed Wednesday two weeks later.  Please remember that your child must complete all activities for their spelling contract which is at the bottom of this page in case your child has misplaced it. These are to be turned in the day of the spelling test.

No new words will be given for work over Spring break.

 I have anchor charts up in our classroom to remind students how they are to write their homework on their paper. We must be neat but at the same time use all the paper - front and back.

 Words Their Way - Word/Rules due March 20

Blue Group

war - warmth, wardrobe, warning, warden, warrior, quarter, quarrel, swarm, dwarf, backward

wor - worker, worse, world, worry, worthy, worship, worthwhile

wa - watch, waffle, wander, squat, squash, squabble, squad

Orange Group

VCV - hoping, quoted, faded, writing, skated, saving, taking, using

VCCV - hopping, plotting, spelling, nodded, acted, wanted, standing, hunted, getting

VVCV - cleaning, meeting, waited, shouting, floated, needed, leaking

Green Group  

-gress-  progress, regress, digress, aggression, egress, transgress  

 -rupt- interrupt, erupt, rupture, abrupt, disrupt  

 -tract- detract, distract, traction, attract, protract, tractor  

 -mot- promote, promotion, demote, demotion, emote, emotion, emoticon

March 6

Blue Group

1st  - morning, shorter, order, forest, corner, normal, forty, northern, border, forward, corncob, chorus, florist

2nd - report, record, perform, ashore, before, explore, ignore, adore, inform

Oddball - sorry, reward

Orange Group

VCC/CV  - athlete, kingdom, pumpkin, halfway, English, mushroom

VC/CCV - pilgrim, complete, monster, kitchen, control, hundred, inspect, children

V/V - create, riot, area, trial, cruel, lion, diet, idea, video

Green Group

- dic- dictate, contradict, unpredictable, verdict, diction, edict, dictionary, dictator, benediction, indict

- aud - audible, auditorium, auditory, audience, audiology, audiotape, inaudible, audition

Oddball - laudable (means praiseworthy)

February 20

Blue Group

1st ar   - garden, market, carpet, harvest, marble, hardly, partner, pardon, barber

1st long -a  - airplane, careful, parents, haircut, barefoot, fairy, barely, dairy

2nd long -a   - compare, aware, despair, repair, declare, beware

Oddball - toward

Orange Group

V/CV long  -  human, pilot, frozen, student, humor, lazy, music

VC/V short  -  wagon, river, visit, never, planet, lemon, finish, seven, present, second, minute

VVCV long  - reason, meeting, peanut, leader, sneaker, easy

Green Group

- spect -   inspection, perspective, retrospect, spectator, circumspect, prospect, introspect, spectacle, spectacular, spectrum

-port- export, deport, import, transport, report, portfolion, heliport, portage, importune, opportune, supportable


February 6

Blue Group

au - saucer, author, August, autumn, laundry, laughed, caution, faucet, auction, sausage, haunted

aw - awful, lawyer, awkward, awesome, gnawed, flawless, gawking

al - also, always, almost, all right, although, already

Green Group

quadr - quadruple, quadruplets, quadrangle, quadruped, quadrennial, quadrant

tetra - tetrad, tetrarchy, tetralogy, tetrapod

quint - quintuple, quintuplets, quintessence, quintessential

pent -   pentagon, pentangle, pentathlon, pentathlete, pentarchy, pentad

dec-    decimal, decathlon, decathlete, decimate

Orange Group

VCV - silent, female, moment, fever, water, stupid

VCCV (doublet) - happen, matter, follow, butter, pattern, bottom, pillow, yellow

VCCV (different) - basket, winter, problem, number, sister, finger, chapter, member, blanket, window

Words Their Way  - Rules for the Week Due January 23

Blue Group

oy - voyage, annoy, employ, loyal, destroy

oi - moisture, avoid, poison, noisy, appoint

ou - announce, country, amount, thousand, trouble, double, county, around, about, counter,

     southern

ow - drowsy, coward, allow

Orange Group

VCV - super, diner, tiger, later, paper, even, over, ruler, crazy, open, tiny

VCCV - supper, dinner, happy, pretty, penny, puppy, rabbit, kitten, hello, letter, lesson, summer

Oddball - busy

Green Group

photo - photograph, photosynthesis

tele - telecommunication, telegraph, telescope, telephoto

peri - periscope

geo - geology, geothermal

meter - perimeter, thermometer, barometer, micrometer

auto - autograph

bio - biography, biorhythms

auto - autograph, automobile

phon - symphony, phonology, phonograph, phonics, telephone

Words Their Way Homework Contract

Students will have two weeks to complete the following homework assignments.

Students will now be responsible for their entire list. Children will receive words

on Thursday and be tested the second Wednesday later. Homework is as follows:

Thursday - Write two fractions for each spelling word. For the first fraction, show

the number of vowels in the word compared to the total number of letters. For the

second fraction, show the number of consonants compared to the total number of

letters.

Monday - Choose 5 words and write five good sentences (more than five words each).

Tuesday - Choose 5 words and write the pronunciation and part of speech of each.

Wednesday - Choose 5 words and write an antonym (opposite meaning) and

synonym (same meaning) for each.

Thursday - Choose 5 words and write the definition in your own words.

Monday - Choose 5 words and write an interesting story, poem, letter, etc.

Tuesday - Parent will give a test to the student. After grading, the parent will continue

to call out the missed words until all words are spelled correctly.

**You must have used all words after completing the Monday assignment. This

allows your students the opportunity to interact with all the words in different

ways. This will provide for more understanding of the words not just the week's

rules and spelling.




 

 

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