2nd Grade Phonics & Reading Homework, September 24.

This is due tomorrow, September 25 (Thursday). Parents, please sign and return the homework form. This is the last piece of homework this week.

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. Please record what they read, how long they read for and then initial it. Thanks!



Part 2 (Phonics): We work on phonemic awareness every day in school. As a matter of fact, your child has been doing phonics lessons since they first walked into school way back in Kindergarten! Phonics lessons focus on students working with sounds... kids build and take-apart words as they gain mastery over the English language.
One of my favorite tools for teaching phonemic awareness is a book called Making Words: Lessons for Home or School. Your child is already well practiced at Making Words lessons. We’ve already done 14 this year. I am sending home Making Words #15 so that your learner can practice these skills in the home environment. Here is how to run the lesson:

*Your child will cut out the letters at the top of the page and spread them out.
*Once they have their letters spread out have them make at. Make sure that they MAKE at before they write at.
*Say, “Now add 1 letter to change at into ate. What do we add at the end to make at into ate?”
*Say, “Now change it into are. Are. Show me how to make the word are.”
*”Now make cat. c/a/t... cat”
*Change 1 letter to turn it into hat... h/a/t... hat.”
*Add 1 letter to change hat into hate... what sneaky letter can we add to make hat into hate?”
*”Now change hate into rate.”
*”Add 1 letter to turn rate into crate.”
*”Now make the word catch... c/a/t/ch... catch.”
*”Can you figure out the secret word? (give them a chance to figure out the secret word). The secret word is catcher. Make catcher.”
*Have your child do part 2 (sorting the words) and then part 3 (transfer the sounds).

Please go over what they’ve done and see how comfortable they are with Making Words. I am putting the instruction sheet from Making Words on the other side of the form for just so you can see what it says.