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English Language Arts 

What are We learning?

Throughout the year we will be learning so many wonderful things, and every couple of weeks we will begin learning a new skill! Here are the ELs we will be learning this year: 

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  • Text Features (Non-Fiction)

  • Main Idea

  • Compare/Contrast (Non-Fiction)

  • Context Clues

  • Ask & Answer

  • Summarize

  • Central Message 

  • Sight Words (ALL 1,000)

  • Persuasive Opinion Writing

  • Fluency 

  • Presentations 

Phonics Skills 

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Even though the students learned all their phonics skills in first grade, I will spend two weeks reviewing some very important phonics skills throughout the year and even introducing new ones! Here are just a few:

  • Long Vowels/ Silent E

  • Blends

  • Vowel Diagraphs

  • Sounds of Y

  • Diagraphs

  • R Controlled Vowels

  • Plurals

  • Silent Consonants

  • COntractions

  • Word endings

  • possessives

  • prefix/suffix

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Websites to Use at home

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Mobymax.com

getepic.com

funbrain.com/books

pbskids.org/games/reading/

starfall.com/

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