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Homework
Schedule

Monday- Read 20 minutes, Spelling 3 X, Math Facts 5 X

Tuesday- Read 20 minutes, Spelling 3 X, Math Facts 5 X

Wednesday- Read 20 minutes, Spelling 3 X, Math Facts 5 X

Thursday- Read 20 minutes, Spelling 3 X, Math Facts 5 X, Spelling test tomorrow, math fact test tomorrow

Friday- Bring back signed behavior chart on Monday


Spelling
Words

Unit 4 Spelling Review
last, mix, stick, lot, sock, hunt, wide, grade, thick, send, class, pond, luck, drum, save, cube, smile, left, smell, thin, drop, shut, huge, note, life

Unit 5 Autumn Words
apple, red, trees, fall, corn, rake, brown, scarecrow, harvest, yellow, pile, moon, pumpkin, leaves, wind, bird, acorn, cold, squirrel, orange

Unit 6 The Keeping Quilt
paint, clay, feel, leave, neighbor, eight, seem, speak, paid, lay, need, weigh, needle, crayon, clean, please, afraid, Wednesday, silent, shining

Unit 7 Anthony Reynoso
coach, blow, float, hold, sew, though, sold, soap, row, own, both, most, tomorrow, program, marshmallow, roast, frozen, shallow, throat, snow

Unit 8 The Talking Cloth
spring, knee, throw, patch, strong, wrap, three, watch, street, know, spread, write, strength, kitchen, wrong, strange, laughter, scream, stream, knock

Unit 9 Dancing Rainbows
wild, bright, die, sight, child, pie, fight, lie, tight, tie, might, mind, design, delight, fright, lilac, spider, fried, supplies, spice

Unit 10 Review
speak, feel, seem, most, both, know, street, need, paint, hold, float, spread, mind, might, leave, own, wrap, patch, wild, bright 

Unit 11 Halloween Words
 
orange, night, ghost, boo, spider, web, costume, pumpkin, treat, goblin, vampire, black, spooky, scary, candy, Halloween, witch, skeleton, party, mask, moon, mummy, haunted, scream, jack-o-lantern

Unit 12 Pumpkin Words

autumn, bake, festival, scarecrow, cookies, nutmeg, Halloween, fruit, vine, candle, pie, carve, round, lantern, whipped cream, soup, grow, orange stem, harvest

 Unit 13 Assessment Week—No New Words

 Unit 14 Thanksgiving Words 

vegetables, turkey, gravy, gobble, china, food, dressing, stuffing, thankful, November, Thanksgiving Day, Pilgrims, Indians, feast, dinner, family, football, holiday, parade

 Unit 15 Dogzilla

 allow, clown, crown, growl, powder, almost, also, false, talked, awful, lawn, caught, taught, fought, ought, mouth, mountain, sound, thousand, count

 Unit 16 The Mysterious Giant of Barletta

 girl, third, first, her, serve, perfect, person, were, hurt, turn, church, work, word, corner, north, smart, dark, argue, clear, early

 Unit 17 Raising Dragons

 large, orange, gym, jeans, fudge, judge, ledge, gentle, germ, giant, skin, squeeze, square, quarter, question, quick, picnic, second, school,

  Unit 18 Christmas Words

 eggnog, north, igloo, Santa, Claus, Christmas, Rudolph, December, letters, snow, sack, tinsel, polar, cane, elf / elves, holly, lights, tree, toys, cookies, singing, candle

 Unit 19 The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

 here, hear, new, knew, its, it’s, our, hour, there, their, they’re, to, two, too, through, threw, know, no, piece, peace

 Unit 20 Review Words

 sound, crown, word, her, orange, hear, our, also, girl, dark, clear, squeeze, second, here, new, soft, turn, north, skin, gym, hour, there, their, they’re, judge

Unit 21 Nights of the Pufflings

aware, compare, declare, stare, mare, prepare, share, spare, square, repair, stairs, fair, swear, wear

 Unit 22 Seal Surfer 

baking, caring, coming, whining, skating, hoping, hopping, dragging, patting, quitting, popping, running, clapped, dropped, hopped, rubbed, patted, closed, smiled, hoped 

Unit 23 Two Days in May 

replay, refill, redo, unkind, unclear, untie, quickly, certainly, sensibly, slowly, warmly, coldly, useful, thankful, wonderful, caller, leader, teacher, speaker, skater 

Unit 24 Review Words 

I’ll, I’m, again, always, all right, anyone, you, your, you’re, caught, brought, that’s 

Unit 25 Across the Wide, Dark Sea 

stood, wood, cookbook, scoop, choose, cartoon, droopy, moose, root, stool, juice, suit, fruit, bruise, clue, blue, cruel, view, dew, jewel

 Unit 26 Yunmi and Halmoni’s Trip 

caught, taught, daughter, laugh, false, salsa, sauce, cause, fought, thought, bought, brought, ought, cough, enough, through, hawk, squawk 

Unit 27 Trapped by the Ice!

 sudden, follow, happen, dollar, hello, pretty, raccoon, suppose, allow, foggy, market, person, until, forget, welcome, escape, window, problem, expert, margin

 Unit 28 Pepita Talks Twice

summer, winter, October, November, ever, later, answer, color, able, purple, simple, trouble, fable, angle, little, sample, castle, middle, apple, travel

 Unit 29 Poppa’s New Pants

 before, between, because, behave, believe, beneath, become, began, again, around, ago, away, ahead, agree, alone, above, aloud, allowed, await, among

 Unit 30  Ramona Quimby

 I’d, I’m, aren’t, isn’t, wasn’t, hasn’t, haven’t, hadn’t, couldn’t, shouldn’t wouldn’t, won’t, weren’t, who’s, he’s, she’s, he’ll, she’ll, let’s, o’clock

Why Read for 20 Minutes Every Day?

         "WHY CAN'T I SKIP MY 20 MINUTES OF READING TONIGHT?"


(Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, America Reads Challenge. (1999) "Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader. "Washington, D.C.


LET'S FIGURE IT OUT --- MATHEMATICALLY!

Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.

By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain
these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?

Some questions to ponder:

Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school and in life?

WHY READ 30 MINUTES A DAY?

*If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!

*Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and the child's hungry mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories.

*A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment.

*Therefore...30 minutes daily = 900 hours
30 minutes weekly = 130 hours
Less than 30 minutes weekly = 60 hours

 

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