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Y o u a r e y o u r c h i l d ’ s f r s t a n d b e s t t e a c h e r ! Here are ways to help your child practice skills while having fun! Name Day 1 1 4 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. 2 This week we’re Reading Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores Talking About How we can be responsible friends and neighbors Learning About Consonant Patterns gh, ph, ck, ng Character and Setting Have your child read these words: laugh, check, ring, luck, clang, phone, graph, rough. Ask what sound the underlined letters stand for in each word. Your child has been discussing character and setting in a story. After reading a story or short newspaper article with your child, have your child describe the setting with as much detail as possible. Day 2 Have your child read these words: adventure, climbed, clubhouse, exploring, greatest, truest, wondered. Use the words to act out a scene in a pretend children’s clubhouse. Day 3 Have your child write the following spelling words: backtrack, clang, cough, duckling, enough, graph, laugh, phone, photo, rough, ticket, tough. Have your child underline the letter or letters in each word that stand for the /f/ sound. Day 4 This week your child learned about character and setting. Ask you child to name a character who appears on his or her favorite television program. Have your child write a paragraph that describes this character. Day 5
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Home Activity Your child reviewed words where two letters together stand for one sound, as in knee, wrist, sign, and lamb. Write some other words with these sounds, such as knot, knock, wrap, wrench, design, gnome, comb, and climb. Ask your child to read and illustrate each word.
Phonics Silent Consonants Review DVD•265
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DVD•266 Comprehension Plot and Theme Review
Read the story. Follow the directions.
Sandy looked outside. All she saw were weeds. Sandy had a plan. We must build a garden! Sandy talked to her neighbors. Soon everyone got to work. By summer they had a beautiful garden. Now people smile when they see what they made together.
1. Circle the sentence below that tells the big idea. Gardens are beautiful. People can work together to make things better. Gardens grow in the spring.
2. Write 1, 2, or 3 on the lines to show the right order.
They had a beautiful garden.
Sandy talked to her neighbors.
Everyone got to work.
3. Write a sentence that tells something that happened in the beginning of the story.
Home Activity Your child identified the big idea of a story and put story events in correct order. Work with your child to write another story about friends or neighbors working together. As you plan your writing, discuss what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
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Spelling Consonant Patterns ph, gh, ck, ng DVD•267
Home Activity Your child is learning words with the consonant patterns ph, gh, ck, and ng. To practice at home, ask your child to write each list word on a piece of paper. Then ask your child to identify the sounds made by the consonant patterns.
Consonant Patterns ph, gh, ck, ng
Sort the list words by ph, gh, ck, ng, and the one word that has a ck and ng.
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Generalization The consonant sound /f/ can be spelled ph and gh: phone, enough. The consonants ck can spell /k/, and ng spells/ng/: ticket, clang.
Spelling Words
1. phone
2. enough
3. backtrack
4. laugh
5. ticket
6. duckling
7. graph
8. tough
9. photo
10. rough
11. cough
12. clang
Words to Read
13. half
14. front
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Spelling Words
phone
graph
enough
tough
backtrack
photo
laugh
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ticket
cough
duckling
clang
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Home Activity Your child is learning words with the consonant patterns ph, gh, ck, and ng. Write a list word, omitting these letter combinations. Ask your child to complete the word.
DVD•268 Spelling Consonant Patterns ph, gh, ck, ng
Consonant Patterns ph, gh, ck, ng
Word Search The list words in the box are hidden in the puzzle. Circle and write each word you find. 1. enough 2. clang 3. tough 4. ticket 5. backtrack 6. cough 7. duckling
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Replace F with the correct letters. Write the list word.
8. lauF 9. Fone
10. graF 11. rouF
12. Foto
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Conventions Different Kinds of Pronouns DVD•269
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Home Activity Your child learned how to use different kinds of pronouns in writing. Ask your child to read aloud the story he or she wrote on this page and to circle the pronouns in the story.
Circle the pronoun in ( ) that can take the place of the underlined word or words.
1.Zack and Max were cats who loved adventure. (They, Them)
2.They climbed the tallest tree. (it, him)
3.Only Buster the dog frightened Zack and Max. (they, them)
4.Maybe Buster could be a friend. (he, him)
Writea make-believe story about two animal friends who have an adventure. Use pronouns from the box in your story.
Different Kinds of Pronouns
I he she we they it me him her us them you
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DVD•270 Conventions Different Kinds of Pronouns
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Draw lines to match the underlined words to the pronouns.
1. My friends and I do many fun things. her
2. Tony climbs high rocks. We
3. Hallie taught Lisa weaving. He
Write the pronoun from the box that can take the place of the underlined words.
4. Josh and Tina build terrific sand castles.
5. José drew a poster.
6. Dan helped Angela and me ski.
Different Kinds of Pronouns
Home Activity Your child reviewed different kinds of pronouns. Find an article in the sports section of a newspaper. Ask your child to circle the pronouns used in the article.
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