January Word Study

In the month of January first graders will be working on blending words with five sounds. The words that have five sounds are the words that have a blend before the vowel and another one after the vowel. For example the word LUMP has four sounds but if you add a "C" before the word LUMP you will get the word CLUMP which has five sounds. Some other words with five sounds are: shrimp, skunk,trust…

The way we tap the five sound words is to reuse the index finger to finish the word.

We are also going to learn how to add the suffix "s" to the five sound words. For example, if we have the word plant, we add a suffix "s" to show that we have more than one plant. The word PLANT becomes PLANTS; the word TRUNK becomes TRUNKS…  

When tapping a word with the suffix "s" - we identify the base word, we tap the base word and then add the sound for the suffix "s"

WE NEVER TAP A SUFFIX!

Trick words: many, before, called, how, down, your,should, because, each

Words of the day: stump, blink, stand, crunch, drinks, plants