Pushing Up the Sky Spelling

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Prefix Video

This week our focus is on prefixes. Prefixes are added to the beginning of a root word and change the words meaning.

Example:     Root Word: happy
                    Prefix: un

When we add the prefix to the root word, we change it's meaning.      un+happy=unhappy

Seeing Stars Spelling

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dge song

ck song

Hard c and Soft c sounds

A Symphony of Whales Spelling

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This week we are focusing on suffixes. Suffixes are added to the end of a root word to change the meaning of the word.

-less
-ness
-ful
-ly

Suffix video

Around One Cactus Spelling

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Silent Letters Video

This week our focus is on silent consonant digraphs. A consonant digraph when two consonant letters come together to make one sound. Some consonant digraphs have silent letters.

Example: mb in the word climb makes the letter m sound, the b is silent.

mb-silent b.... makes m sound

wr- silent w....makes r sound

gn-silent g....makes n sound

kn- silent k...makes n sound

The Man Who Invented Basketball Spelling

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This week's focus is irregular plurals.

For example, the singular word half changes the f to ves to make the plural word, halves.

Some words stay the same like the word sheep. The singular and plural forms are the same here.


Irregular Nouns Video
* There is not lot of sound in this video, please have the kids read aloud while watching!

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest Spelling

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Bossy R Video

This week our focus is on r controlled vowels (bossy r). This is when a word contains a vowel followed by the letter r. The r tells the vowel which sound to make.

For example, the sound of each vowel changes from its original sound when an r follows after it.

er, ear, ir, and or all make the errr sound. (Our spelling words focus on these four categories. Have the kids sort the words for better understanding!)


e--> er     nerve

ear-->   early

i--> ir      third

o-->or       worm

Rocks in His Head Spelling

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prefix video (pre)

Prefix video (over)

Prefix Video (Overview)

This week our focus is on prefixes. Prefixes are added to the beginning of a root word and change the word's meaning.

Example:     Root Word: night
                    Prefix: mid

When we add the prefix to the root word, we change it's meaning.      mid+night=midnight

The prefix mid means middle.  Midnight means in the middle of the night.

Categorize the words to help you learn!

mid        pre     out     over