E. Spell correctly compound words, phonetically regular words, contractions, and possessives: use dictionary and other reference aids to check spelling (AL COS)

Sort, Hunt, Write:  An individualized weekly spelling program
Students will work with their spelling words in a variety of ways.

To, Too, or Two:  Developing an understanding of homophones
This lesson uses multiple modalities to introduce and practice many common homophones.

Pen Pal Letters to Soldiers Overseas
Students write letters to soldiers overseas with correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.

Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd
This is a card game designed to encourage creative thinking and recall or recognize compound words given clues.

SpellaRoo:  This is a game in which kids pick the misspelled word within a sentence.

Spelling Strategies:  Mastering New Words for Writing:  These strategies create spelling word lists from students' writings.

Word Walls That Work:  Six tips for designing practical, efficient, and memorable word walls.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.
 

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