Reading Enrichment Levels M-P/Fall

Dates have been edited to reflect the Fall 2023-2024 school year.
This is an ongoing class that students can subscribe to and attend as much as desired.  It will be offered every Monday and Wednesday from September - December. The class will give students the opportunity to meet with other students daily and to have meaningful interaction with them while practicing basic beginning phonics, reading and language arts skills taught in 3rd grade. This will be an active class and students will be encouraged to participate and interact with classmates. Having permission to use the leveled reading stories from k5learning.com , this class will begin with Level M stories and work our way through Level P by the end of the school year. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in third grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:

1. Phonics skills:  We will begin class with a quick drill practicing new phonics sounds each week
2. Reading skills:  Practice reading sentences and short paragraphs containing the phonics sounds of the week.  
3. Spelling/Sight words - targeted lists for spelling and word study
4.  Grammar: Third grade grammar rules for capitalization, punctuation, verb tense, subject/verb agreement will be incorporated
5.  Vocabulary:  Target Vocabulary words will be selected from each story
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  one challenge word will be discussed each week

Level M Stories

Week of Sept 4
1. Phonics skills:  short a in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills:  Marta Meets Mayor, Fishing for Memories
3. Spelling/Sight words - anthem, ballot, basket, cactus, canyon, gallon, handsome, happen, magnet, planet, rabbit, random, salad, 
                                            tablet, talon
4.  Grammar: Review basic parts of speech: noun, verb, adj, adverb
5.  Reading Vocabulary: Marta Meets Mayor/bridge, decisions, announced, mayor, scissors, microphone
                                          Fishing for Memories/patient, scowled, interrupted, bait, osprey, airplane
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  accomplish, accomplishment

Week of Sept 11
1. Phonics skills:  short i in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills:  The Great One, Flying with Seagulls
3. Spelling/Sight words - chicken, children, distant, instant, limit, linen, liquid, mitten, Pilgrim, prison, ribbon, skillet, timid, visit 
                                            wisdom
4.  Grammar: Review punctuation:   .  ,  !  ?  " "
5.  Reading Vocabulary: The Great One/scorer, hockey, championship, criticize, league, practice
                                          Flying with Seagulls/flying, nervous, equipment, glider, seagull, courage
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  demonstrate, demonstration

Week of Sept 18
1. Phonics skills:  short e in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills:  Braille, The Saleswoman
3. Spelling/Sight words - breakfast, expense, friendly, healthy, heaven, helmet, intense, jealous lemon, lesson,melon, pleasant, 
                                            present, wealthy, weapon
4.  Grammar:  personal pronouns (subject pronouns: I, we, you, he, she, it, they)
5.  Reading Vocabulary: Braille/raised, stylus, system, blind, braille, cursive
                                          The Saleswoman/success, appreciate, saleswoman, guides, generous, confidence
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  inform, information

Week of Sept 25
 1. Phonics skills: short o in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills: A Wonky Ride, A Sound Activated Friend
3. Spelling/Sight words - blossom, bottom, closet, common, Congress, constant, cotton, gossip, pollen, problem, profit, response, 
                                            robin, rotten, solid
4.  Grammar:  object pronouns: me, us, you, him, her, it, them
5.  Reading Vocabulary: A Wonky Ride/afraid, seatbelt, rollercoaster, wonky, breathe, amusement
                                         A Sound Activated Friend/dominoes, attention, invitation, wildly, dinosaur, activated
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: recommend, recommendation
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Week of Oct 2
1. Phonics Sounds:  short u in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading Skills: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Boys in the Band Room
3. Spelling/Sight words - button, compass, cousin, custom, disgust, dozen, hundred, husband, muffin, nugget, oven, pumpkin, 
                                            sudden, summit, trumpet
4.  Grammar: possessive pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, their
5.  Reading Vocabulary:    Somewhere Over the Rainbow/gold, angle, reflected, bend, prism, rainbow
                                             Boys in the Band Room/guitar, trumpet, instrument, drum, mallet, maracas
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: experiment, experimentation

More Level M Stories   

Week of Oct 9
1. Phonics Sounds:  final blends with act, ect, ict, uct, inct
2. Reading Skills: The Night Sky, The Turtle Confession
3. Spelling/Sight words - attract, collect, connect, contact, distinct, distract, effect, extinct, instinct, predict, product, protect, 
                                            subject, subtract
4.  Grammar:  Finding pronouns/identifying person or thing it represents
5.  Reading Vocabulary:    The Night Sky/heroes, millions, constellation, orbit, sideways, patterns
                                             The Turtle Confession/female, confess, breathing, turtle, guilty, giggling
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: confess, confession
                    
Week of Oct 16
1. Phonics Sounds:  long a with open syllables
2. Reading Skills: A Dog that Talks, The Little Red Hen Goes on Strike
3. Spelling/Sight words - ailment, apron, bacon, banquet, basin, blanket, hatred, famous, mason, patron, raisin, raven, sacred, 
                                            vacant, waitress
4.  Grammar: adverbs spelled with -ly, answers "How?"
5.  Reading Vocabulary: A Dog that Talks/miniature, translator, conversation, peace, awesome, impatiently
                                         The Little Red Hen Goes on Strike/dozen, baking, grumbled, flour, strike, muffins
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  converse, conversation

Week of Oct 23 
1. Phonics Sounds:  long a rule breakers
2. Reading Skills: Postcard from Italy, The Blanket Drive
3. Spelling/Sight words - again, against, bargain, break, captain, climate, curtain, great, palate, pirate, private, Senate, 
                                            steak,template, villain
4.  Grammar: rules for dividing words into syllables
5. Reading Vocabulary: Postcard from Italy/ocean, mailbox, envelope, Italy, address, postcard
                                        The Blanket Drive/brilliant, hurricane, interviewer, crew, blankets, television
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  distribute, distribution

Week of Oct 30
1. Phonics Sounds: long e patterns
2. Reading Skills: The Sappy Chew, The Right Pencil
3. Spelling/Sight words - beacon, decent, decrease, disease, even, increase, procded, reason, recent, release, season, secret, 
                                            sequins, sweeten treason
4.  Grammar: order words/after, before, next, since, during, while
5.  Reading Vocabulary: The Sappy Chew/knife, flavors, powdered, sap, screen, research
                                          The Right Pencil/misspell, nervous, concentrate, pencil, misplace, mistakes
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: concentrate, concentration

Week of Nov 6
1. Phonics Sounds: long e pattern with ie
2. Reading Skills: Misty Copeland, Water's Journey
3. Spelling/Sight words - achieve, believe, brief, chief, field, fierce, grieve, thief, niece, piece, priest, relief, shield, thief, yield
4.  Grammar:  order words/first, finally, earlier, eventually, following
5.  Reading Vocabulary:  Misty Copeland/talent, journey, routines, ballet, passion, national
                                          Water's Journey/copper, disinfect, treatment, faucet, journey reservoir
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  inspire, inspiration

Level N Stories
Week of Nov 13
1. Phonics Sounds:  long i patterns
2. Reading Skills: Margie Will Not Read, Into the Forest I Go
3. Spelling/Sight words - client, crisis, diamond, diaper, frighten, iris, iron, lion, minus, pilot, quiet, silent,siren, violent, virus
4.  Grammar: topic sentence, supporting details
5.  Reading Vocabulary:  Margie Will Not Read/imagination, dinosaur, groaned, mysterious, certified, alien
                                           Into the Forest I Go/countryside, preserve, diary, environment, national, nature
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: certify, certificate, certification


Week of Nov 20
1. Phonics Sounds: long o patterns
2. Reading Skills: Understanding dictionary entries
3. Spelling/Vocabulary  words:  although, approach, bonus, broken, clothes, doughnut, focus, hostess, moment, open, poem, 
                                                       rodent, slogan, thorough, token
4.  Grammar: stating Opinions/giving support for opinions
5.  Reading Vocabulary: 
     Slow and Steady Wns the Race:  underestimate, tortoise, steady, challenged, leaves, hare
     The Boy from Oz:  embarrassed, unusual, runners, Australia, bearded, dragon
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: estimate, estimation, estimator

Week of Nov 27
1. Phonics Sounds: long u patterns with open syllables
2. Reading Skills: Understanding dictionary entries
3. Spelling/Vocabulary  words:  beauty, coupon, crton, fluent, fluid, human, humid, Jewish, nougat, prudent, ruin, sewer, student, 
                                                       tulip, unit
4.  Grammar: stating fact vs. opinion
5.  Reading Vocabulary: 
     My Mom, the Architect:  drawings, building, conditioning, elevator, design, architect
     Not So Secret Place: magical, invisible, quiet, pretend, secret, climb
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: design, designer

Week of Dec 4
1. Phonics Sounds: more long u patterns
2. Reading Skills: -al, -tion
3. Spelling/Sight words: approve, compute, confuse, dilute, disprove, interview, introduce, issue, minute, pollute, preview, review, 
                                           salute, tissue, view
4.  Grammar:  Opinion based on facts
5.  Reading Vocabulary:   
House of Memories:  young, plank, photographs, attic, ladder, insulation
Money in the Bank: bank, deposit, withdrawal, loan, interest, expensive
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: insulate, insulation, insulator 

Week of Dec 11
1. Phonics Sounds: -al ending
2. Reading Skills: Finding proof for T/F or not mentioned in story
3. Spelling/Sight words:  brutal, dental, equal, fatal, final, legal, local, mammal, metal, pdeal, rival, sandal, signal, total, vital
4. Grammar: 
5. Reading Vocabulary:
    The Seed Thief:  thief, squirrel, birdfeeder, steal, circular, sspicious
     I'm OK, the Birds are OK:  curious, replenish, embarrassed, worried, neighbor, concerned
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  suspicious, suspiciously, curious, curiously

Week of Dec 18
1. Phonics Sounds: -el and -il endings
2. Reading Skills: Finding proof for T/F or not mentioned in story
3. Spelling/Sight words:  April, channel, easel, fossil, gravel, jewel, label, level, sequel, shovel, shrivel, travel, tunnel, until, vessel
4. Grammar: 
5. Reading Vocabulary:
    Grandma and the Great Shark:  shark, quicksand, documentary, limbs, stomach, application
    House Hunting in Outer Space:  space, surface, intergalactic, outer, gravity, temperature
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  intergalactic