Language Arts / Social Studies
E-Learning Ideas and Resources
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Reading / Writing Ideas
Stay well,
Sheryl
Decoding and Phonics-Student and parent
What kids can do to help themselves
- Play with magnetic letters. See how quickly you can put them in alphabetical order while singing the alphabet song.
- Look at written materials around your house and at road signs to see if you can spot familiar words and letter patterns.
- Write notes, e-mails, and letters to your friends and family. Represent each sound you hear as you write.
- When you're trying to sound out a word, pay close attention to the print. Try to look at all the letters in the word, not just the first one or two.
What parents can do to help at home
- For a younger reader, help your child learn the letters and sounds of the alphabet. Occasionally point to letters and ask your child to name them.
- Help your child make connections between what he or she might see on a sign or in the newspaper and the letter and sound work he or she is doing in school.
- Encourage your child to write and spell notes, e-mails, and letters using what he knows about sounds and letters.
- Talk with your child about the "irregular" words that she'll often see in what she's reading. These are the words that don't follow the usual letter-sound rules. These words include said, are, and was. Students must learn to recognize them "at sight."
- Consider using computer software that focuses on developing phonics and emergent literacy skills. Some software programs are designed to support children in their writing efforts. For example, some programs encourage kids to construct sentences and then cartoon characters will act out the completed sentence. Other software programs provide practice with long and short vowel sounds and creating compound words.
Istation
I-Ready supporting documents
English - I-Ready: Supporting Students Away from School - Reading K-6
Spanish Resources
Spanish - Reading A to Z (create a free preview account) Various resources pulled at each grade level, including the Close Reading sets.
Spanish - Istation - Selected Cycles at each grade level from the Teacher Tools - focused on high-leverage skills
Writing
Gifted and Talented-Start the week of April 6
If you have not completed your update hours for this year, this would be a good time to get this done. Hours for next year do not start until June 1.
Games to make kids think
Daily SET Game- SET builds cognitive, logical and spatial reasoning skills as well as visual perception skills while playing a game! Because it has a rule of logic (three cards that are all the same or all different in each individual feature), and because players must apply this rule to the spatial array of patterns all at once, they must use both left brain and right brain thought processes.
Chess Kid-site to help kids learn and play chess with either the computer or other kids from around the world
Rules for Chess in Kid-Friendly Language
Mensa for Kids Games-online games that focus on different math and language skills, best for 3rd grade and up
Social Studies Ideas
Social Studies Links - Videos and magazine articles
Web Link
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrBettsClass/videos
Web Link
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=social+studies+channel+for+kidsNat. Geo Kids
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1INeOuOChkxa5jssc8xGWB1P7dm0zjYPTnpDzZK4lb58
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16sYUh-ui9H-HXvBME9TnK7dE16N4sZwIGUDOB9oWhOU/edit?usp=sharing