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Homeschool Spelling Curriculum

November 10, 2019 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

Interactive Spelling Activities for Any List

I don’t know about you, but spelling has been a constant struggle in our homeschool. We’ve tried many dedicated spelling curricula over the years, and they are either much too easy or much too hard for my children. Often they are quite boring and require hours of writing and rewriting words with little to no interactivity.

Additionally, they are often expensive, requiring us to purchase a teacher’s manual or a slew of manipulatives that my students bore of quite easily. For spelling, what I really need is a variety of engaging ways to encourage my children to practice their spelling words. I want them to have FUN while working on their spelling words. Is that too much for this homeschool mama’ to ask?

Well, this month, I decided that I had enough, and set out to create my own spelling word resources. I chose the following goals for this resource:

Let me tell you that I am BEYOND excited to announce our latest product: Editable Interactive Weekly Spelling List Pack

  • Editable for Any Word List
  • Adaptable for Multiple Ability Levels
  • Weekly Progression of Knowledge
  • Covers Written & Oral Spelling Activities
  • Covers Syllables, Vowels, ABC Order, Beginning Letters
  • Interactive, Hands-On Activities & Games
  • Is Virtually NO-Prep for Me :)

Let me walk you through how this spelling product works! Basically, on the first page of the product, you’ll type in your own word list (10 new words and 2 review words), and it will instantly AUTOFILL your words directly into all 18 pages of the document, giving you an entire week of custom spelling activities and games. Isn’t that exciting? Here is how a typical week will look:

Spelling PreTest

(Optional) If you’d like to see you’re your student knows beforehand, you can have them take the spelling pretest. This is also helpful for students to see their own progress. We recommend having students take this spelling pre-test at the start of the week on Monday. Remind your students that they aren’t expected to know these words, it’s just for them to compare their progress at the end of the week.

MONDAY:

(after the optional spelling pretest)

Robot Roll Game: Students roll the dice, add the number. Students match the number they rolled to their spelling words and write that word in the empty box.
Inspect & Trace: Students identify consonants & vowels, tracing their spelling word with different colors. Next, students circle the number of syllables in their word.

TUESDAY:
Spelling Practice Fold & Peek: Students practice writing their spelling words. Words are written along the right side of the paper where students can fold, cover, or peek as needed.
Dab & Spell Aloud: Students use bingo daubers to find and dab their word. Each time they dab, students spell the word aloud.
Word Worm: Students spin and read their spelling word aloud. Students then write the word on a worm and spin again.


WEDNESDAY:
Letter Boxes: Students write their spelling words in the shaped boxes.The shapes of the boxes give students a clue as to what letter might fit in the box.
Roll & Write: Students roll the dice and practice writing their spelling words in the columns. The first column to fill up is the winner!
Target Word Practice: Each letter has a number value. Students write their words, then calculate the value based on the number chart.

THURSDAY:
Rainbow Alphabet: Students write their words in alphabetical order. Then students write their words in rainbow colors.
Spelling Word Cards: This set provides you with spelling word cards for each of your spelling words. Cards can be used for flashcards, or as a memory
Spin & Dab: Students spin and dab a letter from the word they land on until the word is spelled completely. Students read and spell each word aloud. Crayons can be substituted in place of a dauber.


FRIDAY:
Mystery Spelling Word JumbleStudents decipher the spelling word by identifying the beginning letter of each picture and writing the letters in order on the line.
Spelling List BingoStudents play spelling BINGO in small groups with these bingo board cards. Since each word has the possibility to be called multiple times, students can choose strategically.
Spelling Bee GameStudents practice spelling their words as they collect each one for their game board. Students must collect and spell each word correctly to win the game.Full instructions provided on the game board. (2 pages)

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Learn to Read Curriculum

September 4, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick 289 Comments

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READProductReady, Eager, Able and Determined to READ! This 36 week curriculum provides you with everything you need to teach your child to read. Structured over a 4-day/week program you’ll cover phonics, digraphs, blends, sight words, grammar and writing. Hands-on activities keep your child engaged and learning with little to no-prep required.

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R.E.A.D Curriculum Notebook: 785 pages

  • 4 Days a Week over 36 Weeks
  • One Word Family per week
  • 2-3 Sight Words per week
  • Beginning Blends cycle every fifth week
  • 60 page Interactive Grammar Notebook
  • Weekly Writing Prompts
  • Science Sequencing & Drawing Activities
  • Daily Warm Up Activities

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Warm Up Worksheets:

Each morning, children will complete two daily warm up activity pages to practice key life skills.  While you can print these pages for each day, we recommend only printing them once and storing them in a plastic sleeve at the front of your binder.  Children can then use dry erase markers to complete their morning work each day.  These are basically no-prep activities, just write a number on the board, and your child can get started while you prepare yourself for the day.

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Interactive Notebook:

On Tuesdays and Thursdays children begin to build and add to their interactive notebook. You will need to decide which method will work the best for your setup: Composition notebooks are fantastic resources for interactive notebooks. They are inexpensive, have a sturdy cardboard front and back, and include lined paper for children to write in additional answers.  Additionally, having a separate notebook provides children with a Language Arts reference tool they can continue to build on during the next few years of schooling.  Whichever method you choose, be sure that and keep this interactive notebook close by, as children will be adding to it twice a week.  Topics covered in the notebook will help meet Kindergarten language art requirements and are outlined in the weekly schedule above.

R.E.A.D. Curriculum Overview:

KindergartenReadingCurriculumMonday

 

Monday

I Can Rhyme Chart

Each week you’ll be introducing children to a new word family or blend.  Start off the week with this colorful chart.  Talk with children about the different words they can make with this special word family and try to think of other rhyming words together.

Letter Sound Chart

Sound out each letter individually, and then blend them together as you move your finger across the letters and arrows. Encourage children to keep the sound going until they reach the end of the arrow, changing and blending sounds when their finger crosses over new letters.

Handwriting Worksheet

This is a simple worksheet for children to practice writing their new words. Each handwriting page features a place for children to write their name and the written word family at the top.  Pictures and their corresponding words are shown, and children have the opportunity to trace and then write the words on their own, checking off each row they complete.

Blank Word Family Template

These blank word family templates are very versatile and can be filled in a variety of ways: Playdough mats, Stickers, Painting, Dot Markers, Fingerprints, Cut & Paste Collage (a words, m words)…..etc.

Sight Word Cards

Each week children will learn two or three new sight words.  Introduce children to these new words and use the sight word cards to begin building small sentences. Children can cut and store cards for later use.

 

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Sound it Out

Children build on the previous days activities by starting off the day reviewing each letter sound and blending them into words.  Children match each word to the corresponding picture.  The second part of this worksheet provides children the opportunity to deconstruct words into beginning, middle and ending sounds, circling each letter as they go. Encourage children to say these sounds out loud as they work.

Interactive Notebook Activity

On Tuesdays and Thursdays children begin to build and add to their interactive folder.  Children cut out and assemble the minibooklet and add it to their folder.  Each minibooklet contains new information covering key Language Arts standards for Kindergarten.

Write & Find

This is a simple spelling activity for children to work on listening for individual letter sounds.  After writing each word, children find the words in the wordsearch below.

Spinner Winner

This worksheet doubles as handwriting practice and a fun game!  Using a paperclip spinner, children write each word they land on, first one to the top wins!

Daily Sight Word Work

Review sight words with yesterday’s word cards. Children then practice writing their sight words with these simple activity pages.  Each page features dot painting and a dot to dot for children to solve.  Smaller words leave room for writing practice and extra activities.

KindergartenReadingCurriculumWednesday

 

Read & Respond

Children work on key reading and comprehension skills with this simple worksheet.  Instruct children to put their finger on the dot and read each word.  After reading children respond by answering questions or completing a writing activity.  This worksheet is progressive throughout the curriculum so reading selections and responses will be increasingly harder as the child strengthens their reading skills.

Making Words w/Letter Tiles

Children build words by cutting out the letter tiles and pasting them to the correct word mat.  If you have them, these cards will work with plastic letter tiles as well.

Nonsense Words

Children build words by choosing a beginning letter and pairing it with their word family.  After saying the sounds out loud, children much decided it they created a real word or a nonsense word, and write it on the corresponding list.

Find & Color Word Family

Children find the words that have the same ending sound and color them.  Children then write three of the words they found.

Sight Word Maze

A fun activity for children to catch all of theirsight words as they work their way through the maze. Encourage children to read the words alound as they find them, counting up how many they found.

 

KindergartenReadingCurriculumThursday

 

Story Reader

Children put their reading skills to the test with this end of the week comic book style story reader.  The goal is for children to read this story three times on their own.  If your child is struggling with this reader, take breaks and review or even try to finish is over the weekend.

Guided Writing

Each week children will complete a simple story writing prompt.  Children are encouraged to use newly acquired words as well as practice language and grammar skills. Each writing prompt provides children with the necessary framework to complete the activity with little help from a teacher.  Upon completion children are encouraged to cut out their writing and word box and paste them into their interactive notebook.  Writing samples can be read during review week and vocabulary can be used as a reference for future assignments.

Interactive Notebook

On Thursday children continue to build and add to their interactive notebook.  Children cut out and assemble the minibook and paste it into the next available page. Each minibook contains new information covering key Language Arts standards for Kindergarten.

Daily Sight Word Work

Review sight words with yesterday’s word cards. Children then practice writing their sight words with these simple activity pages.

End of the Week Crown

Children cut and paste to create their own word family crown to wear!

 

KindergartenReadingCurriculumBlends

 

Review & Blends Week

Every five weeks has been scheduled as an optional review week for word families and grammar concepts learned during the previous four weeks. (If you find your child is needing review, check out our optional review and assessment pack.)  For children ready to progress we’ve scheduled a week of beginning blends for children to learn and pair up with their word families.  The blends week schedule (shown above) is very similar to a normal week with a few substitutions:

 

Blend Sound Chart

Each week you’ll be introducing children to a new word family or blend.  Start off the week with this colorful chart.  Talk with children about the different words they can make with this special word family and try to think of other rhyming words together.

Blending to Read

This is a simple activity page for children to practice close listening to the beginning sound and identify the correct blend. Children should use the dots and arrows as finger placement guides as they blend each word together.

Find & Color

Children find the words that have the beginning blend sound and color them.  Children then write two of the words they found.

Draw & Write (Mon & Wed)

Children follow the six step drawing guidelines to create their own fun characters.  Drawing builds small motor skills, increased confidence and provides writing opportunities for children to create stories for their creations.

Science Sequencing (Mon & Wed)

Children build 3-step sequences and learn to write or draw short responses in a First, Next, Last format.  Science topics include life cycles, plant growth, hibernation, states of matter and more.

Nonsense Words (Tues & Thurs)

Children build words by choosing a beginning letter and pairing it with their word family.  After saying the sounds out loud, children much decided it they created a real word or a nonsense word, and write it on the corresponding list.

Sort it Out   (Tues & Thurs)

Sorting is a great way to assess comprehension.  Children use the included game cards and mats to sort through their newly learned beginning blends. Encourage children to cut out each picture and sort them into the correct categories.  Remind them to check each word before they paste it down.

Bingo Games  (Fri)

Finish out your blends week with a fun game of phonics bingo!  Each bingo board features images of the previously learned word families.  Children can take turns choosing and then reading the calling cards to find out which picture was called.

 

 

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