SPELLING Grades K–8 Spelling Connections
OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND WORDS
The best way to ensure that your students become proficient spellers is through daily, explicit pattern and strategy instruction. With Spelling Connections, your students gain all the strategies and tools they need to go beyond words—and towards a deeper understanding of language.
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See pages 76–79.
lone
cellar role
brake
break roll
steel soar
waist died loan steal
passed past
dyed stake
Choose the Homophones Choose the correct homophone for each sentence.
Spelling Connections meets the Common Core State Standards and provides complete, explicit differentiated instruction that
• utilizes a five-day plan with a page-per-day format—everything you need to deliver effective instruction without the need for extensive planning and prep work.
• delivers meaningful instruction and practice including differentiated word sorts to promote higher-level skill development in thinking, phonics/vocabulary, reading, and writing.
• includes diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to monitor progress, including integrated standardized test practice for improved results on state assessments.
• integrates technology tools for engaging, relevant spelling instruction and practice.
T152A Day 1 Homophones Unit 23 Spelling Words
its it’s
there their
On Level
they’re break waist passed roll past role steel brake steal waste lone sore cellar died steak loan dyed seller soar stake capital capitol vain vane vein mist
missed guest
guessed
Connections to Thinking Student Objectives
• Read, spell, and write words that are homophones. • Sort homophone pairs, identifying how spelling affects meaning.
Below Level
Instruction for All Students • Pretest Dictation Sentences, p. T152A • Connections to Thinking, p. 152
Differentiated Instruction On
Level
Below Level
Above Level
Home/School Spelling Practice Master (Teacher Resource Book, pp. 203–204)
Home/School Spelling Practice Master (Teacher Resource Book, pp. 205–206)
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Home/School Spelling Practice Master (Teacher Resource Book, pp. 207–208)
1. Please pass me a (roll, role) to eat. 2. When I go sledding, I use my foot as a (break, brake). 3. We try not to (waist, waste) the paper. 4. We need one more (steak, stake) to secure this tent. 5. She is playing the (roll, role) of the princess in the school play. 6. These paintings are on (lone, loan) from the museum. 7. Pele’s knee was (sore, soar) after he fell. 8. He ate the soup before the (steak, stake). 9. A (lone, loan) horse stood in the field.
Day 1
10. Please (brake, break) the seal to open the jar. 11. The dress with the black belt at the (waste, waist) looks nice.
Day 2 Connections to Vocabulary • Use a dictionary to find respellings.
Instruction for All Students • Connections to Vocabulary, p. 153
farmhouse.
Differentiated Instruction On 17–18. The
Level
Below Level
Above Level
15–16. Why would anyone want to 19–20. The flower
Extra Pattern Practice Master (Teacher Resource Book, p. 209) Buddy Sort (Word Sort CD-ROM)
showed us what was for sale in her when the florist
Extra Pattern Practice Master (Teacher Resource Book, p. 210) Buddy Sort (Word Sort CD-ROM)
TEKS 4.22C Spell commonly used homophones. 4.22D Use spelling patterns and rules and print and electronic resources to determine and check correct spellings.
Extra Pattern Practice Master (Teacher Resource Book, p. 211) Buddy Sort (Word Sort CD-ROM)
Assessment Pretest Sentences ( On Level Words) (See procedures on p. Z30.) 1. The glass jar will break if you drop it.
Above Level
2. The man wore a belt around his waist.
4. A ball will roll down a hill. 5. I drove past the zoo.
6. Shanelle took the role of the big bad wolf in the school play.
7. The frame of that building is made of steel.
8. To stop the car, Dad put his foot on the brake.
9. A crow will steal shiny objects. 10. We try not to waste water.
3. After you have passed fourth grade, you will go into fifth grade.
a truckload of it green.
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Write a homophone pair to complete each sentence. 13–14. I remember that on our
trips we that
Student Objectives • Identify the meanings of spelling words. • Categorize spelling words based on meaning.
12. Look at those seagulls (soar, sore) over the waves.
sore
steak seller waste
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13. Mother keeps potatoes in the cellar where it is cool.
14. The plant died from lack of water.
15. Aretha would rather eat chicken than steak.
16. Will you please loan your pencil to me? 17. He dyed his white shirt blue.
18. That children’s magazine is a good seller.
19. The eagle was able to soar above the treetops.
20. The surveyor will mark the property line with a stake.
11. In our front yard stood a lone pine tree. 12. After I ran, my muscles were sore.
Teacher and Student Edition pages, Grade 4
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