In this ongoing course, students will practice a new spelling/phonics pattern each week to strengthen their reading, writing and vocabulary skills. This class will meet 1 day a week.  During the live meeting, students will learn the new spelling/phonics pattern of the week as well as the meanings and how to use each word. Students will be given extra practice and a reading passage that uses the new spelling words.  If you would like your child to take a spelling/phonics test, I will send that through Google Forms.  I am providing a list of the skills that will be covered in this class by week.

Week 1 September 11-short and long "a" vowel sounds spelled using a, ai, eigh, a-e, ay, ea, ei, ey
Week 2 September 18-short and long "e" vowel sounds spelled using e, e-e, ee, ea, ei, ey, i, ie, y
Week 3 September 25-short and long "o" vowel sounds spelled using o, oe, oa, ow, o-e
Week 4 October 2-short and long "i" vowel sounds spelled using i, ie, i-e, igh, y
Week 5 October 9-short and long "u" vowel sounds spelled using u, ue, u-e, oo, ui, ou, ew, a, e
Week 6 October 16-words with double letters and /aw/ sound
Week 7 October 23-words with -ed, -ing, -er, and  -est
Week 8 October 30-compound words
Week 9 November 6- words with /ur/ sound
Week 10 November 13-words with /cher/ and /zher/ sounds
***November 20th-26th Fall Break
Week 11 November 27-words with /f/ sound spell f, gh, ph, and ff and words with /oi/ spelled oi and oy
Week 12 December 4-words with silent letters
Week 13 December 11-words with the schwa sound and r-controlled vowel sounds
Week 14 December 18-homophones
***December 25th-January 7th Winter Break
Week 15 January 8-words ending in -sion, -tion, -cian
Week 16 January 15-easily confused spellings and distinguish meanings between homophones
Week 17 January 22-words ending in -ent and -ant
Week 18 January 29-words with the /sh/ sound
Week 19 February 5-words with suffixes -able, -ible, -ous
Week 20 February 12-plural form of words
Week 21 February 19-words with suffixes -ment, -ful, -less
Week 22 February 26-words with prefixes un-, im-, in-, under-
Week 23 March 4-words with geo, act, bio, port, and graph
Week 24 March 11-words to replace the overused word "said"
Week 25 March 18-words with suffixes -ship, -ancy, -ly, -en
***March 25-30 Spring Break
Week 26 April 1-words with prefixes mis-, dis-, re-, non-, anti-
Week 27 April 8- spell adjectives
Week 28 April 15-words with prefixes bi-, tri-, uni-, semi-, cent-
Week 29 April 22- words with rupt, spec, sign, scope and form
Week 30 April 29-spell vocabulary words