Please practice the following words at home with your student. We encourage you to challenge your student to use the words in sentences, identify them in their readings, or define them. Using spelling other than on a test will help the words stick! We will be testing them on Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
Strawberries: focus on -ap family
- cap
- gap
- lap
- map
- nap
- rap
- sap
- tap
Apples: focus on wh blends
- what
- why
- when
- whisk
- whisper
- whip
- while
- who
Bananas: focus on words ending in -ack
- quack
- snack
- black
- back
- lack
- pack
- sack
- rack
- hack
- attack
Grapes: focus short/long 0
- slope
- mop
- rob
- robe
- hope
- chose
- goat
- foam
- load
- boa
- cop
- octopus
Kiwis: focus on -ur/-ure/-ur_e
- turn
- burn
- hurt
- curb
- purple
- hurl
- sure
- lure
- pure
- cure
- curve
- nurse
- purse
- curse
Blueberries: focus on unaccented final syllable -er/-ar/-or
- spider
- brother
- weather
- flower
- silver
- cover
- rather
- color
- doctor
- favor
- flavor
- mirror
- rumor
- tractor
- harbor
- dollar
- collar
- solar
- sugar
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