- Highland Lakes School
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M4W3 Jack & The Hungry Giant (Plot) (M3TF)
Posted by Tracy Malone on 11/12/2023
**Homework folders are to be turned in with completed homework each Friday.
Reading
Skill: Plot
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What is this skill? All stories have a beginning, middle, and an end. We call things that happen in the beginning, middle, and at the end of a story the plot.
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Why is this important? Knowing about the plot can help a reader better understand a story. Good readers use what they already know to help them follow a story.
Sight Words:
- Introduce: are, was
- Review: the, I, a, see, like, by, my, to, am, at, go, is, and, can, you, an, it, has, he, she, in, with, good, his, on, here, of
Phonics: (Print)
- Letter Focus: Ll & Hh
Phonemic awareness (Listening Only - No print)
- Middle sound: Go up the ladder and stop when you get to the top (see below)
- Ending Sound: Say a word while making a the shape of a rainbow (see below)
- Rhyming: Ask your child if certain words rhyme: jeep/steep . leg/beg . pot/hot . whisk/risk
Phoneme segmentation: Ask your child to tell you ALL the sounds in words like:
- cause /c/ /au/ /se/
- pick /p/ /i/ /ck/
- sell /s/ /e/ /ll/
- Helpful Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRdlYE7WdIk
- Middle Vowel Sound:
- Slide Strategy: Ask your child to identify middle vowels sounds in words. Ask your child to go up ladder as they say the word SLOWLY and STOP at the top of slide to hear the MIDDLE VOWEL sound.
- DON'T GO DOWN THE LADDER as we are not identifying the final sound.
- Ending Sound:
- Rainbow Strategy: Ask your child to say the word and make a RAINBOW motion with their finger until they get to the end for the ENDING sound.
Writing
- Letter and number formation
- Write simple Sentences using sight words and CVC words
- Proper use of periods, question marks, exclamation points
- Spaces between words
- A picture to match the sentence
Math: Module 3