Global Frig Door » spelling http://siglersite.com/blog Mr. Sigler's Class Website Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ jsigler@cjr1.org (Global Frig Door) jsigler@cjr1.org (Global Frig Door) 1440 http://siglersite.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Global Frig Door http://siglersite.com/blog 144 144 Mr. Sigler's Class Website Global Frig Door Global Frig Door jsigler@cjr1.org no no Sitton Unit 20 http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/02/04/sitton-unit-20/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/02/04/sitton-unit-20/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:46:43 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1223 The concepts for this unit are:

  1. Double letters stand for one sound.
  2. Words are easier to spell when each word part is spelled separately.
  3. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

The Unit Core Words are:

 

  1. room
  2. sea
  3. against
  4. top
  5. turned

 

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  They will correct their missed words to take home to study.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 20 Words unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 20 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/02/04/sitton-unit-20/feed/ 0 Sitton Word Study Unit 19 http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/02/01/sitton-word-study-unit-19/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/02/01/sitton-word-study-unit-19/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:20:40 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1220 The concepts for this unit are:

  1. A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an ‘ replacing a letter or letters.
  2. /j/ frequent spelling patterns are j, ge, gi, and gy.
  3. Frequent spelling patterns for/s/ are s, ss, ce, ci & cy.
  4. Frequent spelling patterns for/ul/ are le, al, el

The Unit Core Words are:

  1. example
  2. heard
  3. several
  4. change
  5. answer

 

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  They will correct their missed words to take home to study.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 19 Words unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 19 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/02/01/sitton-word-study-unit-19/feed/ 0 Sitton Word Study Unit 18 http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/23/sitton-word-study-unit-18/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/23/sitton-word-study-unit-18/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:32:38 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1215 The concepts for this unit are:

  1. A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an ‘ replacing a letter or letters.
  2. Some words have silent letters.
  3. A prefix is a letter or letters added to the beginning of a word.  A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.

The Unit Core Words are:

  1. young
  2. sun
  3. thing
  4. whole
  5. hear

 

 

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  They will correct their missed words to take home to study.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 18 Words unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 18 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/23/sitton-word-study-unit-18/feed/ 0 Sitton Word Study Unit 17 http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/17/sitton-word-study-unit-17/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/17/sitton-word-study-unit-17/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:40:45 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1207 The concepts for this unit are:

  1. A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an ‘ replacing a letter or letters.
  2. Some words have silent letters.
  3. A prefix is a letter or letters added to the beginning of a word.  A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.

The Unit Core Words are:

  1. sure
  2. knew
  3. it’s
  4. try
  5. told

 

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 17 Words unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 17 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/17/sitton-word-study-unit-17/feed/ 0 Sitton Word Study Unit 16 http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/11/1198/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/11/1198/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:53:03 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1198

The concepts for this unit are:

  1. A short vowel sound usually = 1 vowel.
  2. /?/sound =a, ai, ay, a_e spelling pattern.
  3. Word parts are easier to spell.

The Unit Core Words are:

  1. best
  2. across
  3. during
  4. today
  5. however

 

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 16 Words unit .

does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 16 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/11/1198/feed/ 0 Sitton Unit 15 Word Study http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/04/sitton-unit-15-word-study/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/04/sitton-unit-15-word-study/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:08:48 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1014

The concepts for this unit are:

  1. A vowel followed by r stands for a new sound.
  2. A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.
  3. Double letters stand for one sound.

The Unit Core Words are:

  1. soon
  2. story
  3. since
  4. white
  5. ever

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 15 Words unit .

does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 15 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2012/01/04/sitton-unit-15-word-study/feed/ 0 Sitton Unit 14 Word Study http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/12/12/sitton-unit-14-word-study/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/12/12/sitton-unit-14-word-study/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:27:59 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1188

The concepts for this unit are:

  1. Spelling Patterns for /ü/ = u, oo, ew, ue, u_e
  2. Spelling Patters for /s/ = s, ss, ce, ci, cy
  3. Spelling Patterns for soft syllable /?r/ = er, or, ar

The Unit 14 Core Words are:

  1. soon
  2. story
  3. since
  4. white
  5. ever

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 13 Words.

does have all  Cloze pretest word lists.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/12/12/sitton-unit-14-word-study/feed/ 0 Sitton Unit 13 Word Work http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/12/03/sitton-unit-13-word-work/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/12/03/sitton-unit-13-word-work/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:29:16 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1178

The concepts for this unit are:

  1. Spelling Patterns for long/e/ = e, ea, ee, y
  2. When h follows c, s, t, w (ch, sh, th, wh) the combination = new sound
  3. Spelling Patterns for /k/ = c, k, ck, qu, ch

The Unit 13 Core Words are:

  1. night
  2. picture
  3. being
  4. study
  5. second

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 13 Words.

does have all  Cloze pretest word lists.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

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The concepts for this unit are:

  1. A compound is a combination of two or more words.
  2. A possessive is a word that show ownership.  Some possessives need an apostrophe.
  3. A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.

The Unit 12 Core Words are:

  1. mother
  2. light
  3. country
  4. father
  5. let

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 12 Words.

does have all  Cloze pretest word lists.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

]]> http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/11/28/sitton-unit-12-word-work/feed/ 0 Sitton Unit 11 word work http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/11/14/sitton-unit-11-word-work/ http://siglersite.com/blog/2011/11/14/sitton-unit-11-word-work/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:47:03 +0000 Mr. Sigler http://siglersite.com/blog/?p=1162

The concepts for this lesson are:

  1. Some words have silent letters
  2. A vowel followed by r stands for a new sound. (Bossy r)
  3. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

The Unit 11 Core Words are:

  1. need
  2. far
  3. hand
  4. high
  5. year

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 11 Words.

does have all 16 Cloze pretest word lists.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

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