HOW CAN YOU KEEP YOUR CHILD FROM FALLING BEHIND IN THE SUMMER?
The brain is a muscle. Like any muscle if you do not use it you lose it. Keep your child from falling behind throughout the summer by following the following advice.
Reading Plus will be active throughout the summer. Use it!
Practice map skills follow the links:
Review spelling patterns learned throughout the year.
The brain is a muscle. Like any muscle if you do not use it you lose it. Keep your child from falling behind throughout the summer by following the following advice.
Reading Plus will be active throughout the summer. Use it!
Practice map skills follow the links:
- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
- http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-puzzle.html
Review spelling patterns learned throughout the year.
- Short vowels
- Initial blends (st, gl, gr, dr, bl)
- final blends (-ust, -ask, -ist, -ft, -nt, -mp, -ld, -lt, -lp, -and)
- 3 letter blends (spl, spr, str, scr)
- digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh, ph)
- a_e families
- i_e families
- o_e families
- u_e families
- long A
- long E
- long O
- /aw/ (-aw, -awl, -awn, -all, -alk)
- /igh/ (-igh, -ight, -ild, -ind, -y)
- /oy/ (-oy, -oil, -oin)
- /ou/ (-ound, -out, -ow, -ower, -ouse)
- /oo/ (-ook, -oof, -oot, -ood)
- /u/ (-ue, -uit, -oop, -oom, -ew)
- /ng/ (-ang, -ing, -ank, -ink, -unk)
- R-controlled (-or, -orn, -art, -ork, -ir, -urn, -ore, -are, -air, -ire)
- /eer/ (-eer, -ear)
- Final /j/ (-age, -ge, dge)
- Contractions (not, will, am, is, are)
- Silent Letters (kn, gn-, wr, -mb, -gn)
- Prefixes (un, re, dis)
- Suffixes (ful, ly, less, er, est, s, es, change y to i add es, -ed, -ing, adding -ed & -ing to words ending with Y)
- Compound Words