Reading Enrichment Levels Q-T/Spring

This is the second semester of an ongoing class that learners can subscribe to and attend as much as desired.  It will be offered every Monday and Wednesday for the spring semester (Jan - June).  The class will give learners the opportunity to meet with other learners and have meaningful interaction with them while practicing phonics, reading and language arts skills. Classes always begin with a few moments of greeting each other and encouraging expressive language skills and interaction with classmates. Then we will use paper/pencil or small dry erase boards to practice phonics skills and language skill for the week.  Learners will also have a time to drill Fry Words through interactive slides. The leveled stories used in this class are used with permission from K5learning.com. Parents will have access to these stories through this website and are encouraged to print them for their learner to use during class and to practice reading again with them after class.  This class will begin with Level S stories and work our way through Level  T by the end of the school year. Each week we will have a special Wonder Word to help expand vocabulary in addition to the vocabulary words listed for each story. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in 4th grade and make some new friends. 

Update for the 2024 Spring Semester complete through March!

Week of Jan 8
1. Phonics:  -ive ending
2. Stories for the week: Katherine, Who Loved to Count
3. Reading resonse:  Why do you think John Glen wanted Katherine to check the computer's calculations before the big flight?
4. Spelling/Sight words: abrasive, adjective, attractive, constructive, creative, detective, effective, exclusive, expensive, impressive
5.  Grammar: suffix -ive  changes verb to adjective
6.  Reading Vocabulary: geometry, analyzing, mathematics, mission, trajectory, calculation

Week of Jan 15
1. Phonics:  -ive ending
2. Stories for the week: Mr. Dude, the Strongman
3. Reading resonse:  Create two more Strongman events.
4. Spelling/Sight words: incentive, narrative, negative, objecyive, perspective, positive, productive, protective, relative, selective
5.  Grammar: Using context clues to determine meaning
6.  Reading Vocabulary: inhaled, nickname, competition, weighted, victorious

Week of Jan 22
1. Phonics:  -ate ending
2. Stories for the week: Nadia's Perfect Ten
3. Reading resonse:  What is something you would like to score a perfect 10.
4. Spelling/Sight words: accurate, alternate, appropriate, carbohydrates, certificate, chocolate, considerate, corporate, deliberate, delicate
5.  Grammar: prefix in-
6.  Reading Vocabulary:gymnast, routines, technique, vault, diligent, demeanor

Week of Jan 29
1. Phonics: -ate ending
2. Stories for the week: Signature Music
3. Reading resonse:  Is there someone famous you would like to meet? Who is it and what would you as k them?
4. Spelling/Sight words: desperate, duplicate, elaborate, estimate, fortunate, graduate, immediate, literate, spearate, utimate
5.  Grammar: analogies
6.  Reading Vocabulary: studio, signature, microphones, genre, orchestra, autograph

Week of Feb 5
1. Phonics:  -ment ending
2. Stories for the week: The Corn Festival
3. Reading resonse:  Think of a contest or sports event you have seen and describe it.  Draw a picture too, if you'd like.
4. Spelling/Sight words: achievement, agreement, apartment, appointment, argument, compliment, condiment, document, element, employment
5.  Grammar: Adding -ment changes verb to noun
6.  Reading Vocabulary: permission, humongous, extraterrestrial, realistic, installment, rummaging

Week of Feb 12
1. Phonics:  -ment ending
2. Stories for the week: Journey Through the Magna Carta
3. Reading resonse:  Define negotiate.  What would you negotiate with your parents?
4. Spelling/Sight words: equipment, government, improvement, instrument, investment, monument, ornaments, punishment, refreshments, tournament
5.  Grammar: Change interrogative sentence into statement
6.  Reading Vocabulary:taxes, imprison, parliament, baron, monarch, negotiate

Week of Feb 19
1. Phonics:  -ar, -er, and -or endings
2. Stories for the week: The Ice Cream Investigation
3. Reading resonse: Do you think Ellie did the right thing by publishing the aricle?
4. Spelling/Sight words:calendar, circular, consider, counselor, customer, director, editor, equator, governor, janitor
5.  Grammar: Changing verb to noun using -ar, =er, -or
6.  Reading Vocabulary:organic, journalist, amendment, press, reporting, investigate

Week of Feb 26
1. Phonics:  -ar, -er, -or ending
2. Stories for the week: The Gladiator's Son
3. Reading resonse: Write a persuasive paragraph to convince the public that the gladiator fights should not be allowed.
4. Spelling/Sight words: manager, monitor, narrator, officer, regular, similar, soldier, survivor, vinegar, visitor
5.  Grammar: antonyms and synonyms
6.  Reading Vocabulary: villa, orator, Colosseum, toga, tunic, gladiator

Week of March 4
1. Phonics:  -tion ending
2. Stories for the week: Dog Walking Problems
3. Reading resonse:  Write a paragraph using the words business, customers, advertisement and competition
4. Spelling/Sight words: attention, collection, connection, contraction, description, direction, education, infection, instructions, introduction
5.  Grammar: add suffix -tion to words/notice soft c sounds become hard c sound
6.  Reading Vocabulary: business, monopoly advertisement, decision, customers, competition

Week of March 11
1. Phonics:  -sion ending
2. Stories for the week: White Hats to the Rescue
3. Reading resonse:  Why do we need to have strong passwords on our devices? Make up a strong password.
4. Spelling/Sight words: admission, collision, collusion, conclusion, confession, confusion, decision, discussion, division, erosion
5.  Grammar: -sion changes verb to noun
6.  Reading Vocabulary: White Hats to the Rescue

Week of March 18
1. Phonics:  -sion ending
2. Stories for the week: A Hyena with a Strategy
3. Reading resonse:  What type of dog would you like to have? Why?
4. Spelling/Sight words: explosion, expression, extension, impression, invasion, occasion, percussion, permission, possession, revision
5.  Grammar: spelling rules for adding -sion, -ion to verbs
6.  Reading Vocabulary: Latin, auditorium, classification, hyena, backbone, taxonomy

Week of March 25
1. Phonics:  -ition ending
2. Stories for the week: Electricity in Miniature
3. Reading resonse:  How would the loss of electricity affect your everyday life?
4. Spelling/Sight words: addition, ambition, audition, competition, condition, definition, edition, espedition, ignition, intuition
5.  Grammar: Latin root "pos" means put or place
6.  Reading Vocabulary: turbine, electricity, transmission, circuit, magnet, generator