Reading Homework
In Room 3 we have homework every night. We feel that homework should be fun but
that we should also be practising our learning at the same time.
Every night we have reading homework. We select a book from our fluency box
every day from Monday to Friday. Sometimes our teacher gives us the instructional
reader that we have read for further challenging reading. We take the selected book
home, read it to our parents/caregivers, and then we ask them to sign our home books
to show that we have read our book. We need to bring our home book to school every
day to show that we are doing our learning.
The Spelling Programme in Room 3
In Room 3 we have spelling words to learn every night as well as reading. The
spelling is individualised and that means that we all have different words to learn. We
write them into our home books at the beginning of the week, and then we have a
week to learn them. We have to learn them every night and then get our
parents/caregivers to sign them after we have learnt them.
We are tested on the essential spelling list words periodically. This is where our
spelling words to learn come from. They are the words that we did not know how to
spell in our spelling test.
If we wish to learn more than the words we are given, then we can use the words
listed here from Essential Lists 1 to 6.
Essential List 1
a, I, it, the, was, and, in, my, to, we
Essential List 2
at, but, for, got, had, he, is, me, of, on, she, so, that, then, there, they, up, went, when,
you
Essential List 3
about, after, all, are, as, back, be, because, came, day, down, get, go, going, have, her,
his, home, into, just, like, mum, not, one, our, out, said, some, were, with
Essential List 4
again, an, around, big, by, can, come, could, dad, did, do, first, food, from, good, has,
him, house, if, little, next, night, no, now, off, old, only, or, other, over, people, put,
ran, saw, school, see, started, their, them, this, time, took, two, us, very, well, what,
will, would, your
Essential List 5
am, another, away, bed, been, before, best, brother, called, car, door, everyone,
family, five, found, friend, fun, heard, here, know, last, left, long, looked, made, man,
more, morning, name, never, once, play, really, room, something, still, thing, think,
thought, three, through, told, too, walked, want, way, where, which, who, year.
Essential List 6
also, always, asked, black, boy, bus, cat, coming, minutes, most, much, nice, opened,
outside, cool, dark, decided, dog, eat, end, even, every, place, ready, ride, right, run,
say, eyes, fell, felt, find, four, gave, getting, great, sister, sleep, suddenly, take, tell,
ten, head, hit, how, inside, it's, I'll, I'm, top, town, tree, turned, until, wanted, jump,
knew, later, life, live, lot, lunch, make, water, while, why, window, woke, yes.