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I like these plastic folders with prongs the best. The cover letter includes sight word “flash cards” that they cut out and use to practice. They are also required to practice math facts and memorize those 9 sight words. I can usually convince parents to take their kiddo to the public library and grab some books for their nightly reading assignment. I also send home books with any student who tells me they don’t have any books at home. With my struggling students, I send home little phonic-based readers. I usually send 1 page per night of homework. I tear out pages from that to send home for math homework. Our math curriculum includes workbooks for extra practice. I attach a cover sheet to the record sheet that lists our phonic-based and sight words for the week. They are aligned with my weekly homework. I have these sentences (plus an alternate set) for every week in my Reading Foundation with Phonics Series. This aligns with our standards where traditional write the word activities do not. Showing that they can apply the phonic rule that we are learning. I say a sentence that includes the words and they write that sentence. Like I’ve mentioned, we do context work with the words. I put “spelling words and test” in quotation marks because we don’t do a traditional spelling test. Writing is so easily differentiated, so I can make this task more of a challenge for my higher-level students (more complex sentences, multi-syllable words that contain the same phonic rules, etc.) and simplify it a bit (fewer words, fewer sentences, etc.) for my strugglers. I like this homework because it incorporates writing. Try not to repeat the words from yesterday.ĪPPLYING PHONICS TO WRITING AND LANGUAGE STANDARDS WEDNESDAY: Write a short story containing at least 5 of the “spelling words”. TUESDAY: Write at least 5 sentences containing at least 5 of the “spelling words”. Highlight or circle the phonic rule in each. MONDAY: Explain the phonic rule we are learning this week. I send home a paper where they record their answers. At the end of the week take a little Dictation Test on 10 phonics based words and 4 of those sight words.įor homework, I assign the same nightly activities each week. That’s why I use the tacky putty on those.Įach week my kids learn 9 new sight words. Both sets of words stay on my focus wall white board for the week, then the sight word cards get moved to the word wall. I use business card magnets (cut up) – on my sight words. However, I beef it up with additional words. My phonics and sight word routine follows the same pacing. Our language arts adoption is McGraw-Hill’s Wonders Reading program. I use words that contain the rule(s) we are working on in addition to sight words. Each week we study specific phonic skills. I build homework around phonics and writing. Because of that, my routine is simple and comes with strict instructions that they do it on their own. Let’s face it, the ones that need to do it the most usually don’t, or have help with every single thing. I like to keep homework routine so ALL of my kiddos can do it completely on their own. I also give my above grade level kiddos the option of no homework – however most of their parents don’t take that option. I’m not a fan of homework for the little ones, so I do my best to keep it simple yet effective… and quick. I have some serious issues with homework for primary kids. I’m joining Jen from Teacher on the Beach for Monday Motivation.
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