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Phonics Compound Words Review DVD•149

Home Activity Your child formed compound words—words that are made up of two smaller words. Work with your child to make up picture puzzles for other compound words, such as toothbrush, pancake, and rainbow. Help your child write the new compound word beside each picture puzzle.

Use the pictures to make a compound word. Write the compound word on the line. Look at the words in the box if you need help.

basketball  cupcake  mailbox raincoat  turtleneck

river + bank = riverbank

  1.            + =

  2.           + =

  3.           + =

  4.           + =

  5.           + =

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Home Activity Your child completed sentences in a story that told about a series of cause-and-effect events. Select a book of folk tales about animals. As you read, ask your child to identify cause-and-effect relationships.

DVD•150  Comprehension Cause and Effect Review

Pick a word from the box to finish each sentence.

cold  food  quickly  stopped  woke

  1.  Crow up because the wind was blowing through his tree.

  2. He felt stiff and creaky because it was a

     day.

  3. Crow set off to look for because he wanted to eat.

  4. He came to a large farm. Crow there because workers were picking apples.

  5. Crow flew down to get a fine red apple. He had to fly away

       because the workers ran after him!

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Spelling Words

1.find

2.child

3.sky

4.bright

5.wild

6.fly

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8.flight

9.spider

10.cry

11.blind

12.myself

Words to Read

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14.buy

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Spelling Vowel Patterns i, igh, y DVD•151

Home Activity Your child is learning to spell words with long i: i, igh, and y. To practice at home, ask your child to write each word, say it, and circle the long i sound.

Vowel Patterns i, igh, y

Sort the list words according to i, igh, and y.

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Spelling Words

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Home Activity Your child has been learning to spell words with long i: i, igh, and y. Have your child point to and read words that have a long i sound in exercises 1 to 6.

DVD•152  Spelling Vowel Patterns i, igh, y

Vowel Patterns i, igh, y

Read the two words. Write a list word that would come between them in a dictionary.

1. lungs nice 2. fast

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Conventions More About Verbs DVD•153

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Home Activity Your child learned how to use verbs for present, past, and future in writing. Write these verbs in a list on paper: work, clean, dust, sort. Have your child write each verb three times to make it tell about now, the past, and the future.

More About VerbsThink of a way that you can help a family member or friend. Write about your idea. Use the verbs in the box or your own words.

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DVD•154 Conventions More About Verbs

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Circle the correct verb in ( ).

1. Now Rosa (helps, helped) Blanca. 2. Yesterday Blanca (helps, helped) Rosa. 3. Today Blanca (adds, will added) tomatoes to the pile.

4. Last week Rosa (added, will add) corn to the pile. Write the correct verb in each sentence.

5. Last year Rosa (plants, planted) a garden.

6. Next year Blanca (planted, will plant) a garden.

7. Now Rosa (looks, looked) at her pile of tomatoes.

8. Tomorrow Blanca (looked, will look) at her pile of corn.

More About Verbs

Home Activity Your child reviewed verbs for present, past, and future. Have your child write a letter to a relative. Ask your child to point out each verb and identify whether it tells about now, the past, or the future.

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Home Activity Your child read a realistic fiction story. Reread the story together and identify the order of events (sequence). Then discuss the order of events in baking a cake or preparing a favorite meal. Describe the order using the words: first, next, and last.

Comprehension Sequence DVD•155

Read the story. Write the answer to each question.

The Missing Piece

Sandy just finished baking a carrot cake. She placed it near a window to cool.

Her brother Joey said, “What is that yummy smell?”

Next, Chubs the cat purred as he sniffed the cake.

“We’ll eat it after dinner,” Sandy said. “Now I have to go to the store.”

When Sandy returned, she saw a slice missing from the cake. “Who ate a piece of my cake!” she screamed.

“Not me,” shouted Joey. Chubs was napping in the backyard.

Then, Grandpa walked into the kitchen. “What a wonderful surprise, Sandy,” Grandpa said. “You baked my favorite cake. It is delicious!”

1. Write the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 to show the correct order of story events.

Grandpa tells Sandy the cake is delicious.

Sandy bakes a cake.

Joey smells the cake.

Sandy went to the store.

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