Mrs.

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2009-2010 Long Range Plans
Week
Reading
Word Study
Writing
Math
Science
Social
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Aug. 17
Back to School Activities
Aug. 18
Aug. 19
Aug. 22
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Spelling: (a/i) - bag, win, his, has, ran, if, dig,
sat, mat, picnic
Transfer: hat, pig, van, his, twin
WWW: I, to, snap, with, black
Dictation: 1. I sat on a cat.
2. The pig has a wig.
3. The man ran to the van.
* Circle the homophone in sentence #3*
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Spelling: (e/o/u) fox, wet, nut, job, let, fun,
met, mop, hug, men
Transfer: box, set, shop, plug, mend
WWW: best, clock, into, jump, not
Dictation: 1. The fox had fun in the box.
2. I can shop for a new clock.
3. I set the bug on my leg.
* Circle the MMW in sentence #1*
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Aug. 31
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Spelling: (fat c/skinny k) kid, cab, cot, kit, cup,
sock, luck, deck, sick, kick
Transfer: fit, lab, stick, pluck, block
WWW: review Dictation: 1. He had a black sock in
his hand.2. The pink cup sat by the milk.
3. Two friends had a picnic in the grass.
* Write a synonym for friend*

Sept. 7
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Spelling: (fszl) jazz, puff, off, buzz, bell, fill,
doll, kiss, sell, loss
Transfer: stuff, fuzz, still, gloss, smell
WWW: will, tell, small, bug, trip
Dictation: 1. Miss Bliss rings the bell at recess.
2. The baby likes to kiss the small doll.
3. Was that a buzz or a hiss?
* Write an antonym for small*
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Spelling: (ng/nk/ing) king, tank, long, bank,
sang, ring, junk, pink, honk, hung
Transfer: rink, dunk, bunk, swing, link
WWW: drink, eating, junk, thank, thing
Dictation: 1. We had fun on the swing.
2. Mom likes to shop with me.
3. I put pink lip gloss on my lips.
* Write two compound words*
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Spelling: (ch/sh/th/wh) think, chick, whiff,
shock, cash, chill, shed, thud, check, chop
Transfer: thing, chin, ship, chip, flash
WWW: children, why, where, what, when
Dictation: 1. Where did she put that red bell?
2. When will we check the math we did?
3. Why is the junk in the back of the car?
* Write a fact and opinion about math*
Sept. 27
Sept. 28
Theme
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Spelling: (blends/clusters) crack, dress, grill,
fresh, stung, bring, trunk, throb, drop, class
Transfer: crash, grass, swing, stop, stack
WWW: crash, float, pretty, friends, green
Dictation: 1. We will grill the fresh fish for
lunch. 2. The pretty dress was pink and
green. 3. What did you bring for the friends
in your class? * Put the transfer words in abc order*
Oct. 4
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1
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Spelling: (syllable division) upset, napkin, drastic,
gossip, blanket, until, trumpet, magnet, zigzag,
rabbit Transfer: plastic, market, reset, undo, under
WWW: truck, them, then, there, than
Dictation: 1.I set the plastic magnet on the carpet.
2. The ball is under the yellow blanket. 3. The
rabbit will hop in the tall green grass. Write 2 words
that will come between magnet and master in the
dictionary*
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4-day week

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Spelling: (clusters) strap, string, split, scrub,
stress, splash, scrap, scram, sprang, strip
Transfer: flash, spring, clap, clang, blam
WWW: after, brothers, other, sister, its
Dictation: 1. There was a clap of thunder
after the flash. 2. I saw a scrap of fabric on
the floor. 3. The strap split into lots of strings.
* Circle one noun in each sentence*
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Spelling: (bossy R) fork, sport, border, shirt,
first, girl, turn, her, dark, church
Transfer: dirt, twirl, burn, bark, churn
WWW: are, hurt, first, girl, were
Dictation: 1. There was a dark border on her
shirt. 2. The dog can bark and twirl around.
3. The girl fell in the dirt after church.
* make plural boy, fox, baby, wolf, giant*
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Spelling: (-tch) latch, switch, crutch, pitch,
catch, sketch, itch, stretch, hutch, notch
Transfer: hatch, patch, clutch, fetch, etch
WWW: favorite, beautiful, cant, dont, have
Dictation: 1. I found a sketch of a cat by the
patch of grass. 2. The crutch was too hard for
me to use. 3. He pitched the tent near the
lake.
* Circle a pronoun in each sentence*
Nov. 29
Nov. 30
Dec. 1
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Dec. 2
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Spelling: (open syllables) me, go, hi, she, so,
begin, silent, open, paper, prevent
Transfer: be, we, no, before, okay
WWW: review
Dictation: 1. She used the paper to draw a
beautiful girl. 2. My favorite sport is basketball.
3. We will begin the song when you get here.
* Write a sentence using both I and me*
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Spelling: (magic e) cake, close, shade, slide,
athlete, explode, subscribe, stampede, mistake,
suppose
Transfer: shake, parade, glide, pose, compete
WWW: here, joke, name, line, ride
Dictation: 1. The athlete glided on the track. 2. She
closed the shade to block out the sun. 3. Do not
shake the cake or it will spill.
* write possessive for the zebra has stripes
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Spelling: (vccv) basket, admit, traffic, shamrock,
tennis, cannot, chipmunk, tablet, fantastic,
Wisconsin
Transfer: fabric, plastic, magnet, ferret, submit
WWW: skate, sale, those, write, writing
Dictation: 1. The pigs nose was hidden in the mud.
2. The farmers cow ran across the grass. 3. I saw
the three boys moms at the shop.
* write possessive for the two girls have stickers
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Spelling: (-y) try, why, holly, daddy, candy,
fifty, shortly, pony, hardly, ivy
Transfer: cry, Molly, dandy, thirty, shyly
WWW: every, many, really, they, very
Dictation: 1. Mollys pony has a thick black
mane. 2. His candy fell out of his pocket. 3.
The red truck hardly met the speed limit.
* write todays date 3 different ways*
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Spelling: (vowel teams) pie, die, faith, train, detail,
wait, play, spray, crayon, birthday
Transfer: tie, faint, chain, maybe, stay
WWW: mail, said, rain, crashes, make
Dictation: 1. The first game is on Saturday,
November 10. 2. We will win the pie contest on
Thursday, December 8. 3. My birthday is on Friday,
February 3. * pretend you are saying #1add
quotation marks and tell you are saying it.*
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Spelling: (vowel teams) doe, goat, tiptoe, elbow,
window, float, coast, soak, throat, steamboat
Transfer: Joe, throw, toast, cloak, fishbowl
WWW: slow, went, more, made, phone
Dictation: 1. My dads favorite book is The Cat in the
Hat. 2. My best friend has a goat for a pet. 3. Joe
will throw the ball to Jack.
* write 3 synonyms for good*
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Spelling: (vowel teams) week, weak, thief, field,
key, chimney, sea, see, meet, meat
Transfer: eel, heal, belief, monkey, feet
WWW: review
Dictation: 1. We will meet our teacher on Friday. 2.
My cut will heal if I keep it clean. 3. The monkey
was too weak to lift the branch.
* what is a contraction?*

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Spelling: (short ea) dead, breath, spread, wealth,
sweater, dealt, weather, heaven, tread, read
Transfer: lead, bread, sweat, head, heavy
WWW: because, before, didnt, wont, thats
Dictation: 1. The boys asked to use my float in the
water. 2. The nice lady read a book to our class. 3.
My sweater was thick and warm.
* Circle the verb in each sentence*
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Spelling: (schwa) soda, dragon, apron, seven,
salad, problem, bottom, kitchen, bacon, woman
Transfer: wagon, seventy, kitchens, bottomless,
sodas
WWW: about, again, played, quit, was
Dictation: 1. He came to dinner late because of
traffic. 2. We went to the kitchen to make a salad.
3. What did you like about the meeting?
* Circle the past tense verbs in the sentences*
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Mar. 1
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Spelling: (-le) saddle, raffle, cable, thimble, pickle,
tremble, needle, dimple, boggle, sparkle
Transfer: puddle, baffle, trickle, pimple, sparkly
WWW: little, people, could, one, won
Dictation: 1. The trip was long and the kids were tired. 2.
She stopped by the big puddle and got off her red
bike. 3. The boys played with fast cars and then had a
sweet snack.
* Circle the adjectives in the sentences.*
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Spelling: (-dge) badge, edge, lodge, judge,
ridge, pledge, hedge, trudge, bridge, dodge
Transfer: wedge, nudge, ledge, fudge, budge

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WWW: kicked, sports, stop, their, theyre
Dictation: 1. The teacher set the plant on the
window ledge. 2. There was a trickle of water from
the stream. 3. Theyre going to say the pledge
before the game begins.
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Spelling: (oo) smooth, boot, noon, book,
room, choose, foot, look, loose, good
Transfer: booth, wood, cooking, spoon, broom
WWW: review
Dictation: 1.The judge was in charge of the
room. 2. The green truck dodged the tree
branch on the street. 3. I got a good book to
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Spelling: (oy/oi) joy, annoy, destroy, point, oyster,
enjoy, sirloin, moist, coin, embroider
Transfer: toy, avoid, boyhood, joint, decoy
WWW: boy, right, sometimes, knew, new
Dictation: 1. Sometimes I keep my coins in a jar. 2.
He enjoyed the sirloin we grilled for dinner. 3. The
oyster was still moist.

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Spelling: (ou/ow) ouch, mouth, around, brown,
drowsy, growl, sprout, now, powder, flower
Transfer: ground, south, slouch, scowl, scout
WWW: found, house, how, our, outside
Dictation: 1. We found the coolest rock outside our
house. 2. My puppy growls when he is drowsy. 3.
The flower began to sprout from the ground.
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Spelling: (suffixes) helpless, faster, jumping, settlement,
biggest, fraction, quickly, finest, boxes, hardly
Transfer: helpful, jumped, bigger, quickest, boxed
WWW: wanted, ever, these, too, two
Dictation: 1. We put the gifts in the finest boxes we could
find. 2. The rabbit was bigger than the kitten. 3. She
was jumping faster than a frog!
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Spelling: (soft c/g) city, place, choice, pencil,
cent, gem, change, stranger, stage, gentle
Transfer: space, centimeter, danger, cite, cycle
WWW: city, gym, nice, dear, both,
Dictation: 1. Watch out for strangers in the city,
warned Mom. 2. I got twenty cents in change at
the shop. 3. I placed my pencil in the blue basket.
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Spelling: (aw/au) thaw, awful, launch, daughter,
crawl, haunt, taught, cause, author, August
Transfer: draw, saucer, caught, straw, fault
WWW: caught, saw, does, enough, upon
Dictation: 1. The haunted house was so awful I
closed my eyes. 2. The authors new book comes
out in August. 3. I caught the tiny bug that was
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Spelling: (ew/ui/ue) fruit, bruise, threw, clue, juice,
chew, glue, flew, crew, suit
Transfer: drew, true, cruise, screw, blue
WWW: review
Dictation: 1. Do not chew on the glue bottle, said
Mrs. Madden. 2. The fruit was bruised so I threw it
away. 3. I drew a man in a blue suit flying through
the air.
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