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Lessons using spelling from McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series

First Grade short a

Unit 1 Week 1 Getting To Know Us

Reading and Writing Workshop: Jack Can Literature Anthology: Nat and Sam Genre Theme: Realistic Fiction Skill/Strategy/Fluency: Key Details/Visualize/Phrasing Phonics: Short A Structural Analysis: Inflected endings using –s HFW: does, not, school, what Grammar Mechanics: Sentences/Beginning Caplitalization Writing Trait: Ideas Big Idea: What makes you special?

What makes you

special?

Unit 1

Big Idea

Frugal In First

Visualize I make mental pictures that

change as I read.

Frugal In First

Realistic Fiction

A story using made up characters that

could happen in real life.

Spelling Words

man can nap

tap cat hat

High Frequency Words

not does

school what  

Read

Color    

Trace

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fan pan hat cat map

lap tag wag sad jam

Name: _________________

!fan pan hat cat map lap tag wag sad jam

!FAN PAN HAT CAT MAP LAP TAG WAG SAD JAM

Build    

sat lap nap cat

Color     Write    

Name: _____________________   Unit 1 Week 1

   

Frugal In First    

Build    

bat tag can hat

Color     Write    

Name: _____________________   Unit 1 Week 1

   

Frugal In First    

Short A Tree Map

-ap -ad -at

Name: ___________________  

_________

_________

_________  

__________

__________

__________  

_________

_________

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U1W1

Read The words                                          Graph the words

     

  Write a sentence using two spelling words: _____________________________ _____________________________

fan jam cat tag lap tag fan cat lap wag  

sad jam tag jam sad cat wag jam lap tag

fan

wag

lap

tag

sad

fan   jam   sad   wag   lap   tag  

short a flip book

I can sort the sounds /ap/ /at/ ad/ Wonders: unit 1 week 1

Name: _____________________

_ap _at  

_ad

Spelling  Sort    Cut  and  sort  

read pencil crayon pen marker

fan

pan

hat

cat

map

lap

Word Work: 4 Way Spelling Neatly write your spelling words below using different writing tools.

Spelling Pyramids Write your spelling words adding one letter at a time to make a pyramid.

m ma map

Name: ______________  

My Word Building Helper The Alphabet

Blends and Digraphs

a b c d e f

g h i j k l

m n o p q r

s t u v w x

y z

sh wh ch ph th

bl br cl cr tch

fl fr gl gr pl

pr sc sk sl sm

sn sp st sw tr

tw str spr str scr

_ap

Building Words Use your Word Helper to help build words.

Name: ________________________

_at _ad

ABC  Order  

Highlight-a-Word Highlight all short a words

Record short a words in the frames below:

at bit can sad sit kid gat ran faj zap

get lat bab not had

yat rap pun bav pad

Short a

start

finish

hat

cat

pan

tap

can

cap

rat pat

tan

lamp

hat

lot

nap

fat

gap

pad

sat

lap

fan

Directions: Roll the dice. Move that many spaces. Read the

word. If you are correct you may stay there. If you are incorrect you

must go back. First one to the finish space wins!

Short A Sort Name: ______________________

map sad rap pad rat

hat lap had sat pat

-ap -at -ad

Write  and  Stamp  

Read

Short  A  Book    

Short A

Read The Room

-ap -at -ad Read the Room

1.

2.

3.

Name: ________________________

Write 3 sentences using short a words.

map tap

lap sad

nap pad

had cat

bad sat

hat pat

__________________________________________________  __________________________________________________  __________________________________________________  __________________________________________________  

Frame a word Choose a word from your spelling list and put it in a frame. Write a sentence using the

word in the frame.

Name: __________________   Unit 1 Week 5

Name: _________________  

I am special because Name: _________________  

I am special because

Name: _________________  

I am special because

Short a

Pick, Glue & Write Students pick 6 pictures to glue to their writing paper

and make a sentence using short a words.

Pick, Glue & Write

bat

man

cat

bag

fan

rat

pan

hat

Pick, Glue & Write Pick, Glue & Write

bat

man

cat

bag

fan

rat

pan

hat

bat

man

cat

bag

fan

rat

pan

hat

_______________________________

Pick Glue & Write Name: __________________    

Frugal In First

_______________________________ _______________________________

_______________________________

Pick Glue & Write Name: __________________    

Frugal In First

_______________________________ _______________________________

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