Spelling


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Students write their words in their agenda on the first day of the week They only need to study the odd numbered words because those are the words that will be tested. The students have an opportunity to gain extra credit points by spelling the challenge words correctly on thier spelling test. Each week our class learns new rules and skills for spelling by using our reading curriculum, Scott Foresman Reading Street. Here are the lists of the skills, rules, and words that go along with each story for each week: ||
 * Spelling is taught and reviewed 3-4 times per week.

Unit 1:
 * [|Frindle] [|Thunder Rose] [|Island of the Blue Dolphins] [|Satchel Paige][|Shutting Out the Sky]  **

Unit 2: **[|Inside Out] ** Unit 3: **[|Wings for the King] ** Unit 4: 
 * **[|Passage to Freedom] ** || **[|The Ch'i-lin Purse] ** || **[|Jane Goodall's 10 Ways to Help Save Wildlife] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere] ** ||
 * **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Leonardo's Horse] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Mahalia Jackson] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Special Effects in Film and Television] ** ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; width: 375pt;">Unit 5: **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Three Century Woman] ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; width: 375pt;">Unit 6: **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|At the Beach] **
 * **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Stretching Ourselves] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Exploding Ants] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Stormi Giovanni Club] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Gymnast] ** ||
 * **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Talk with an Astronaut] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Journey to the Center of the Earth] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Ghost Towns of the American West] ** ||
 * **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Mystery of St. Matthew Island] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|King Midas and the Golden Touch] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Hindenburg] ** || **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Sweet Music in Harlem] ** ||