HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: *always, everything, *things, become, nothing, day, stays (words with * are on the spelling test)
PHONICS: Syllable pattern CV; vowel sounds of /y/; segment and blend phonemes, rhyming words, add initial phonemes
GRAMMAR: action verbs
TEXT BASED COMPREHENSION: sequence and summarize
AMAZING WORDS: (these words are not tested, but students should demonstrate understanding) growth, public, teeter, makeshift, population, shuffle, crooked, spindly
Unit 3, Week 2 "Ruby in Her Own Time"
SPELLING: bring, bank, rink, sunk, trunk, sang, blank, pink, wing, rang
HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: any, every, were, enough, own, ever, sure
PHONICS: compound words, consonant patterns ng, nk; segment and blend phonemes, add phonemes, segment and blend syllables
GRAMMAR: verbs that add -s
TEXT BASED COMPREHENSION: Compare and Contrast, Inferring
AMAZING WORDS: attempt, time line, flatter, lovely, event, famous, correct, common