Reading Assignments for the Week of April 13th – April 17th

Objective: Students will determine syllables by counting vowel sounds and recognize that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

Students should read daily.

You may want to watch these videos with your child before completion of activities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epk-hnVC10khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBc703kYMgWhen watching this one, you will want your child to identify the vowel sound in each syllable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU

Parent instructions:You can explain to your child that words have syllables—big parts you hear when you say a word.

Parents:1. Clap your hands once as you say the word……….friend. 2. Say: friend has one syllable, or one big part you hear. 3. Clap your hands twice as you say the word…….. buddy. 4. Say: buddy has two syllables, or two main parts you

hear.

Parents:Discuss the rule for determining how many syllables a word has:

1. Tell your child: Words may have one syllable, two syllables, or even three or more syllables.

2. Tell them: Dividing a word into syllables can help you read a long word.

3. Read the rule in the yellow box.

4. Say: friend again, clapping once as you say it.

5. Point out that this word has one vowel sound, short e. Remind your child that the word also has one syllable.

6. Explain that because you hear only one vowel sound when you say the word friend, you know the word has just one syllable.

7. Have your child say the word friend with you and clap once for the syllable.

8. Say the word buddy again, clapping with each syllable. Ask your child how many syllables there are.

Using workbook page 56, have children practice identifying and counting vowel sounds to determine the number of syllables in a word.

Tell your child they will practice noticing and counting the vowel sounds in words to figure out how many syllables each word has.

1. Point to the word cat in the first column and have them read the word aloud.2. Ask them what vowel sound they hear. (short a) 3. Ask them how many vowel sounds are in cat. (one)4. Ask them how many syllables the word cat has. (one)5. Have them say the word cat and clap once for the syllable.6. Next, point to the word candy in the right column and have your child read the

word. 7. Ask them what vowel sounds they hear in this word (short a, long e ).8. Ask them how many vowel sounds the word has all together. (2)9. Ask your child how many syllables are in the word candy. (2)10. Explain to your child that the slash mark between the letters n and d

shows how this word is split into two syllables can and dy.

Continue guiding your child through the remaining words on the page. As you come to more challenging words, remind your child that it is the number of vowel sounds they hear—not the number of vowel letters---that will help them figure out how many syllables a word has. As needed, reminded your child of reading and spelling rules they have learned that will help them determine the number of vowel sounds in a word. For example point out that the letters oa in boat stand for just one vowel sound, long o. Since boat has only one vowel sound, it has only one syllable. Flute also has two vowels, u and e, but only one vowel sound, long u; therefore the word has only one syllable.

Activity 1 – Workbook page 56

Your child does NOT need to write anything for this activity. When finished, send a message that your child

completed the activity.

Activity 2 – Workbook page 57

Parents: Have your child count the number of syllables for each word and put the number into the box next to the pictures. The answers can be written on a separate sheet of paper.

Activity 3 – Syllable SortParents: Have your child sort the words below into 3 categories based on the number of syllables.

Remind them that words can have one syllable or more than one syllable and that every syllable has one vowel sound in it. Point out that bike and rain may have more than one vowel letter but only one vowel sound.

You can print out this table or make your own.Words with 1

syllableWords with 2

syllablesWords with more than 2 syllables

You can show completion of these assignments in the following ways:

 Send a Class Dojo message or email stating that you and your child completed Activity #1 (p. 56)

Send a picture of Activity #2 & Activity #3 through Class Dojo or email.

Type a message using words that describe what you did for Activity #1, #2 & #3 in Class Dojo or through email.  arosenbaum@muncysd.org