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Skills Practice for Home

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ELA and Mathematics Skills Practice for Home

Language Arts

     Phonemic Awareness

  • Practice sound segmentation of words. ie:  s-n-a-p  (snap)
  • Distinguish initial, medial, and final sounds in words.

     Phonics Word Practice

  • CVC words: real and nonsense words (ie: cat; zat)
  • Long and Short Vowel words with Blends and Digraphs

           (ie:  flag; thank; ride)

  • "R" controlled vowel words (ie: fur; dirt)
  • Vowel diphthongs and Vowel Digraphs (ie: boy; oil; August)
  • Special Vowel Patterns (ie: fruit; shy)
  • Regular/Irregular Plural words (ie:  cities; fries)
  • suffixes (ie:  rented; catching)
  • Multisyllabic Words (ie: surprise; railroad)
  • Spelling Patterns
  • Syllabication

     Reading Comprehension/Literary   

     Response and Analysis

  • retell facts and details in text
  • interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs
  • answer questions about stories read to improve comprehension

     Reading Fluency Practice

  • Sight Vocabulary Mastery Word List
  • Read with fluency, expression, and intonation
  • Goal: 100 wpm on a 2.9 reading level

     Vocabulary Development

  • antonyms/synonyms
  • multiple meaning words
  • compound words

    Written & Oral Language Conventions

  • Write complete sentences w/appropriate punctuation
  • Capitalize proper nouns, beginning of sentences, months, days, titles, and initials
  • Spell sight vocabulary word accurately

    Writing: Narratives and Opinion

  • Practice writing short stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
  • compare and contrast
  • cause and effect

    Mathematics

    Number Sense

  • Write #'s correctly to 1,000.
  • Count by 2's, 5's, and 10's to 100,
  • Practice Place Value with hundreds, tens and ones.
  • Sums and Differences of 2 whole numbers up to 3 digits
  • Find the missing numbers in addition and subtraction problems.
  • Fractions
  • Money
  • Practice addition and subtraction w/ coins to one dollar. (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar

     Statistics, data analysis, & probability

  • +/- using charts, graphs, number sentences

    Measurement and Geometry

  • Measure inch/centimeter
  • Time: write the time to the hour, half-hour, and quarter-hour
  • Plane & solid shapes
  • Put together and take apart shape