Spelling and Reading Homework for this week: 9/14/15 Spelling skills: blends and vcsilent-e words Reading skills: fluency, writing a beginning, middle, and including relevant details from the text. Each night: Read 20 minutes each night to include the reading going home this week - The Great Big Enormous Turnip. Please take extra care of these books. We will have spelling test on Friday and a reading comprehension test. A spelling choice board is attached to help you study the words. Please read over and study your answers for the story each night in your reading notebook. 1. flute 2. broke 3. blame 4. drive 5. place 6. stone 7. chose 8. prune 9. slope 10. crime Also, your child has sight words (on index cards) that need to be studied every night. As they master these, I will add more. Please do not let them sound these out. Please send these to school each day and initial on the parent card that this has been done. They need to commit them to memory and read on sight. This is extremely important to reading fluently and aiding comprehension.