Grade Level Information

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Literacy Week Activities and Resources

How I can help my child at home build their writing skills in Kindergarten?

• Allow your child to come up with his/her own simple sentence.
• Allow your child to use “inventive spelling” where your child sounds out each words and writes what they hear vs. providing the correct spelling for them.
• Have your child reread the sentence(s) aloud to you.
• Encourage your child to use the Kindergarten High Frequency Words

Friendly reminders for your child when writing:

• Write from left to write on the paper.
• Start each sentence with an uppercase letter.

Ex.  The dog is brown.                                                                                    

• Use “finger spaces” between each word in the sentence.
• Draw a detailed picture that matches the sentence.

This chart shows how a Kindergarten student’s writing progresses throughout the year.

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Phonics Activities

education.com/games/first-grade/word-patterns/

http://turtlediary.com/games/first-grade/phonics.html

Here are 2 websites that are great to practice spelling patterns and phonics.

Sight Words                                                                  

These are great sites to practice sight words.

https://www.abcya.com/games/dolch_sight_word_bingo

http://education.com/games/sight-words/

Here is a list of all the First-grade sight words for the year.

First Grade High-Frequency Words Checklist, 2020-2021

Other websites we use in class are:

www.getepic.com  -this is used to read books.  Students can even take short quizzes to check their comprehension.

http://homereadinghelper.org/1st-grade-reading-skills-reading-comprehension  This is a link to an article describing some different activities you can do at home to practice comprehension strategies.

Reading Bingo

• This is a great resource to use to help you practice reading comprehension at home.  Simply read a book and then pick a bingo square to write and respond to.

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Phonics Activities

https://www.ricpublications.com.au/blog/post/12-multisensory-phonics-activities/

This website gives great ideas for how parents can help their child learn letter sounds using multi-sensory learning activities.

Sight Words

https://www.abcya.com/games/dolch_sight_word_bingo

This is a great site to practice sight words

Other websites we use in class are:

www.getepic.com  -this is used to read books.  Students can even take short quizzes to check their comprehension.

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/comprehension – Another site to take short quizzes to check their comprehension

www.squigglepark.com/dreamscape -this is a game we use in class.  It is a reading game that reviews all kinds of reading/grammar skills.

Reading Comprehension Activity

www.storylineonline.net

Pick a story and have your child listen to it.  When they are finished listening to the story check for understanding by asking the following questions:

• Who is the main character(s) in the story?
• What is the setting of the story? (where does the story take place?)
• What is one important event that happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story?
• Is there a problem in the story that needs to be solved? How does the character solve the problem?
• What was your favorite part of the story

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For reading practice at home, students can use istation. For math practice at home, students can use Freckle.

To access both istation and Freckle, go to https://polkschoolsfl.com/

Click on Students and then click on Classlink.                                   

Click on the appropriate blue login button.

Istation might prompt you to download it onto your device. After you download it, there will be a new istation icon on your desktop. Students should not try to open istation from the desktop icon. Their password will not work. Once it is downloaded, students should be able to access istation through classlink.

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Helpful websites:

www.getepic.com – students can read books and take short quizzes to check their comprehension

https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/  – free math practice

https://home.xtramath.org/   – helps students to practice math facts

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Here are some useful resources for families:

Epic   www.getepic.com – students can read books and take short quizzes to check their comprehension

Tumblebooks  https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f – a library of books to listen to

Resources we use in class

CommonLit   https://www.commonlit.org/

Readworks  https://www.readworks.org/

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ESE Resources

Support for Families of Children with Disabilities

https://www.supportforfamilies.org/

This website offers information to parents with multiple disabilities in children. It offers newsletters and resources, as well as upcoming events and services for educating parents and loved ones of children with disabilities.

Autism Now

https://autismnow.org/

This website offers online resources for information on Autism. In this website, you can find latest news, information, events, and a local agency map for finding help in your area. Another great resource is Autism Learn.

Information on IEP

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/iep.html

This is an article that gives a great and comprehensive overview of an IEP.

Educational Resource for reading and learning disabilities

https://www.readingrockets.org/

This website offers great resources to utilize at home. It offers research-based activities that help struggling readers. There is an extensive library packed with lessons on fluency, oral language, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, and other literacy skills.

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