September: Word Wall List
again
because
could
favorite
have
people
want
off
into
said
who
until
they
very
Word Family Review (with examples):
-ike, -ar, -an, -ain (bike, car, van, train)
-at, -ape, -ake, -ant (cat, ape, snake, ant)
-orn, -ice, -eat, -each (corn, rice, meat, peach)
-ill, -ate, -ay, -ark (Jill, Kate, Rat, Mark)
October: Word Wall List
| city | community | countries | exciting |
| getting | laughed | schools | was |
| to | two | too | pretty |
| prettier | prettiest |
Word Family Review (with examples):
-at, -et, -it, -ot, -ut (cat, bet, sit, hot, but)
-ack, eck, ick, ock, uck (black, neck, sick, rock, truck)
*Change y to i and add es rule (berry - berries)
November: Word Wall List
| beautiful | before | discover | enough |
| first | hopeless | journal | went |
| let's | recycle | their | there |
| they're | when |
Word Family Review (with examples):
-ate, -ete, -ite, -ote, -ute (late, Pete, kite, vote, cute)
-ane, ene-, ine, -one, -une (Jane, gene, line, bone, tune)
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
___and (ex. land, brand, landslide)
____ent (ex. sent, invent)
December: Word Wall List
anyone are can't don't everybody everything hidden our right terrible trouble won't wouldn't write
Word Family Review (with examples):
-art, -erk, -irt, -ort, -urn (art, jerk, dirt, sport, burn)
-ark, -er, -irl, -orn, -urt (dark, her, girl, horn, hurt)
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
___ine (ex. fine, dine, airline)
___out (ex. shout, trout, without)
January: Word Wall List
about
especially
except
friendly
knew
new
know
no
myself
really
probably
then
usually
then
usually
what
Word Family Review (with examples):
-all, -ell, -ill, -oll, -ull (all, tell, pill, roll, pull)
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
___ain/___ane (ex. rain, brain, stain/cane, plane, crane)
___ait/___ate (ex. bait, wait, gait/date, gate, skate)
Word Sorts & Hunts with u - sorting using: other (judge), u (us), ue (blue), u_e (use), u_e (tune), ur (burn), sure (insure), ture (nature)
February: Word Wall List
| by | buy | didn't | doesn't |
| general | governor | something | sometimes |
| one | unhappiness | winner | won |
| your | you're |
Word Family Review (with examples):
-ast, -est, -ist, -ost, -ust (fast, best, list, cost, just)
-atch, -etch, -itch, -otch, -utch (catch, fetch, pitch, notch, crutch)
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
__eal/__eel (ex. meal, deal, heal/eel, feel, wheel)
__eap/__eep (ex. cheap, heap, leap/cheep, beep, sweep)
Words Sorts & Hunts with i - sorting using: other (give), i (it), ie (die), i_e (nice, ir (bird), y (my), y (happy), tion (nation), sion (mansion)
March: Word Wall List
| another | confusion | I'm | its |
| it's | question | that's | threw |
| through | vacation | we're | wear |
| where | with |
Word Family Review (with examples):
-ang, -ing, -ong, -ung (hang, king, song, stung)
-ank, -ink, -unk (bank, pink, junk)
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
___oan/___one (ex. moan, groan, loan/bone, stone, phone)
___ute/___oot (ex. flute, pollute, substitute/boot, shoot, scoot)
Word Sorts & Hunts with e - sorting using: othr (earth), e (he), e (pet), ee (tree), ea (eat), ea (bread), er (her), ew (new), le (little)
What Looks Right? - eer vs. ear words
April: Word Wall List
| almost | also | always | impossible |
| independent | lovable | thought | were |
| weather | whether | whole | hole |
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
__are/__air/__ear (ex. care, blare, spare/chair, stair, hair/wear, pear, tear)
__ew/__ue/__oo (ex. new, few, blew/true, glue, blue/too, zoom, bamboo)
Word Sorts & Hunts with a - sorting using: other (have), a (cat), a (baby), ai (wait), a_e (game), ay (day), ar (car), aw (law), a (around), al (legal)
What Looks Right? - oke vs. oak words
May/June: Review
Review all Word Wall words and word families
Reading & Writing Rhymes:
__ary/__airy/ __erry/ __arry (ex. scary, Mary/dairy, fairy/cherry, merry/carry, marry)
__ore/__oar/__oor/__our (ex. more, store/roar, boar/door, floor/your, pour)
Word Sorts & Hunts with o - sorting using: other (work), o (hot), o (go), oa (boat), o_e (home), or (for), oy (boy), ou (out), ow (show), ow (now)
What Looks Right? - all vs. awl words