読書強化レベル IL/秋

Updated for 2024/2025 School Year.  

This is an ongoing class that students can subscribe to and attend as much as desired.  Each week the class meets on Monday and Wednesday from September - December.  On the rare occasion when the teacher is unable to meet on Monday or Wednesday, a make-up class will be held on Friday of that same week. 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 2nd grade. The pace of the class keeps the students moving through several activities designed to highlight phonics skills, spelling words, grammar skills and reading comprehension. 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 I stories and work our way through Level J
by the end of December. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in 2nd grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:

Level I Stories
Week of Sept 2
1. Phonics skills:  Compound Words/Syllables
2. Reading skills:  Making Slime, The Man Who Invented Legos
3. Spelling/Sight words: backyard, barefoot, baseball, birthday, cupcake, football, grandmother, outside, popcorn, sometimes, 
      sunset, sunshine
4.  Grammar: Review Capitalization Rules
5.  Reading Vocabulary: 
              Making Slime/ingredients, coloring, replied, kitchen, suggested, worried, mixture, sticky
              The Man Who Invented Lego/Denmark, invention, plastic, furniture, wooden, Lego
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  cooperation             

Week of Sept 9
1. Phonics skills: Double Consonants/Syllables
2. Reading skills:  A Fancy Meal, Chocolate
3. Spelling/Sight words - carry, follow, holler, hurry, kitten, pillow, puddle, ribbon, rotten, shallow, soccer, worry
4.  Grammar: Review Punctuation Rules/Sentence Types
5.  Reading Vocabulary: 
             A Fancy Meal/restaurant, waitress, napkin, valet, milkshake, lobster, dinner, menu
             Chocolate/chocolate, sugar, beans, factory, maker, cocoa          
 6. Weekly Wonder Word:  volunteer

Week of Sept 16
1. Phonics skills: Open/Closed Syllables
2. Reading skills:  Missing the Movie, Who is Harry Houdini, 
3. Spelling/Sight words - basket, chicken, costume, fabric, final, lady, program, rodeo, super, tiger, velvet, winter
4.  Grammar: Use apostrophe for possession ('s)
5.  Reading Vocabulary: 
               Missing the Movie/popcorn, minutes, replied, thirsty, returned, excited, sighed, theatre
               Who is Harry Houdini/excitement, trapeze, famous, adventure, escape, circus         
6. Weekly Wonder Word: frighten

Week of Sept 23
 1. Phonics skills: Final Stable Syllables/dle, tle, ple, ble
2. Reading skills: The Golden State, Amanda's Perfect Painting
3. Spelling/Sight words - bridle, candle, cattle, handle, middle, needle, purple, saddle, stable, table, thimble, title
4.  Grammar: Use apostrophe for contractions
5.  Reading Vocabulary: 
            The Golden State/California, flakes, gold, shovels, states, rush
            Amanda's Perfect Painting/paintbrush, festival, curved, painting, straight, collage           
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  process

Week of Sept 30
1. Phonics Sounds: Suffix s, ing, ed
2. Reading Skills: Jojo's Colorful Bedroom, Brittany's Baby Sister
3. Spelling/Sight words - boils, cooks, greets, grills, melt, play, remind, scatter, screaming, smell, talk, want
4.  Grammar:  Use comma to separate items in a list
5.  Reading Vocabulary:   
             Jojo's Colorful Bedroom/secondary, primary, blend, designer, wheel, color         
             Brittany's Baby Sister/doorbell, bassinet, quietly, annoyed, pacifier, stare
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  annoy

Week of Oct 7 
1. Phonics Sounds:  Plurals
2. The Tangled Feet Problem, Loud Volcanoes and Quiet Volcanoes
3. Spelling/Sight words - answers, bunches, churches, fields, flowers, foxes, heroes, hikes, inches, lunches, questions, students
4.  Grammar: Parts of friendly letter/punctuation in friendly letter
5.  Reading Vocabulary:   
              The Tangled Feet Problem/tickled, serious, scold, winked, giggle wise
              Loud Volcanoes, Quiet Volcanoes/dangerous, surface, erupt, volcano, islands, lava
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  matter
                                            
Week of Oct 14
1. Phonics Sounds: Plurals
2. Reading Skills: Study Buddies, Healthy Eating
3. Spelling/Sight words - babies, bodies, cities, communities, companies, countries, factories, families, properties, skies, stories, 
                                             territories
4.  Grammar: prefixes/ un, re
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
                Study Buddies/practiced, quietly, novel, stumbled, stories, voice
                Healthy Eating/healthy, protein, carbohydrates, muscles, energy, vitamins
6. Weekly Wonder Word: expect
         
Week of Oct 21
1. Phonics Sounds:  Plurals
2. Reading Skills: Jonah's Kite, The Sleepover
3. Spelling/Sight words - calves, children, geese, hooves, lives, loaves, men, mice, oxen, teeth, wives, wolves
4.  Grammar: Prefixes/pre, mis
5. Reading Vocabulary:
            Jonah's Kite/magazines, tangled, beach, vacation, cooler, kite
            The Sleepover/grandparents, cupboard, nervous, explained, excited, replied
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  expect
        
Week of Oct 28
1. Phonics Sounds:  Comparatives, Superlatives
2. Reading Skills: Walt Disney, Where are the Watermelons
3. Spelling/Sight words - calmer, cleaner, longer, neatet, oldest, quicker, quietest, smarter, stronger, taller, wildest, youngest
4.  Grammar: Prefixes/ sub, super
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
             Walt Disney/amusement, company, success, character, cartoons, movie
             Where Are the Watermelons/watermelon, imagine, recite, audience, nervous, poem
6. Weekly Wonder Word: famous
             
Week of Nov 4
1. Phonics Sounds: Double Consonants with -ed, -ing
2. Reading Skills: Anna Wants a Puppy, Hoverboards
3. Spelling/Sight words - begged, clapped, flopped, grabbed, gripped, hugging, pinned, planning, ripped, skipping, starred, 
                                             stopping
4.  Grammar: Using context clues to determine word meaning
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
             Anna Wants a Puppy/exercise, wagging, energy, local, laughed, attention, chase
             Hoverboards/skateboard, hoverboard, practice, surface, battery, helmet
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  responsibility
             
Level J Stories
Week of Nov 11
1. Phonics Sounds: Comparative and Superlative
2. Reading Skills: Ernest and the Elevator, Stinky and Safe
3. Spelling/Sight words - closer, finest, gentler, happiest, largest, nicer, purest, ripest, safe, simple, strangest, widest
4.  Grammar: Finding subjects/predicates
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
             Ernest and the Elevator/apartment, elevator, salami, behaved, favorite, fear
             Stinky and Safe/predators, opossum, liquid, cinnamon, creature, odor      
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  frighten        

Week of Nov 18
1. Phonics Sounds: -ly in adverbs
2. Reading Skills: Missing Tadpoles, Who Were the Beatles
3. Spelling/Sight words - closely, completely, finally, happily, mainly, perfectly, quickly, rapidly, sadly, slowly, strangely, totally
4.  Grammar: Finding adjectives
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
            Missing Tadpoles/observation, tadpoles, water, swimming, habitat, tails
            Who Were the Beatles/autographs, reporters, guitar, audience, crowds, fan
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  observed

Week of Nov 25
1. Phonics Sounds: -ful,-less,-ness
2. Reading Skills: A Slimy Situation, Don't Feed the Ducks
3. Spelling/Sight words - careless, cloudless, darkness, delightful, fearless, grateful, handful, joyful, plentiful, shyness, successful, 
                                            wonderful
4.  Grammar: Finding prepostions
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
             A Slimy Situation/principal, science, erupt, volcano, judge, lave
             Don't Feed the Ducks/breadcrumbs, nature, human, searching, visitor, sign 
6. Weekly Wonder Word: notice

Week of Dec 2
1. Phonics Sounds: pre-, re-, mis-, un-
2. Reading Skills: Fools Gold or Real Gold, The Underdogs
3. Spelling/Sight words - misbehave, misinformed, misleading, precaution, preschool, preteen, rebuild, repaint, review, 
                                            uncommon, unexpected, unlucky
4.  Grammar:  Finding pronouns
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
             Fools  Gold or Real Gold/explosion, pyrite, mirror, sparkles, fooled, gold
             The Underdogs/determination, worried, shoot, teammate, hockey, skate
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  determined
            
Week of Dec 9
1. Phonics Sounds: long a sound in ea, eigh, ay, aigh, ai
2. Reading Skills: The Slam Dunk, The Fire Triangle
3. Spelling/Sight words - break, eight, great, holiday, neighbors, sleigh
4.  Grammar: compound words
5.  Reading Vocabulary:
              The Slam Dunk/trampoline, high, bounce, basketball, dunk, ankle
              The Fire Triangle/oxygen, breathe, fire, burning, heat, fuel
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  exercise

Week of Dec 16
1. Phonics Sounds:  long a sound in ea, eigh, ay, aigh, ai
2. Reading Skills: Allen's Ghost, Not Just an Empty Can
3. Spelling/Sight words - spraying, steak, straight, trail, wait, weighed
4.  Grammar: Thank you notes
5.  Reading Vocabulary:  Allen's Ghost/haunted, project, environmental, ghost, litter, plastic
                                           Not Just an Empty Can/recycling, weighing, furnace, machine, factory, melted
6. Weekly Wonder Word:  investigate