Wilson Just Words
Use this website to practice the basic sounds.
Stations for Review
Station 1: Fluency
Station 1: Fluency
- Take out your Student Challenge Book
- Using an iPad, go to my website - wait, you're already here!
- Decide whether you want to work on phrases or stories.
- Listen to the instructions and follow along in your book.
2. Stories 1 and 2
- When it’s time, open the iTalk app.
- Name your recording (maybe Wilson 4/30/15 or Phrases 1).
- Record yourself.
- When you’re finished, listen to yourself.
- Listen to the recording above again.
- If your recording doesn’t sound like mine, try reading and recording again.
- If your recording does sound like mine, move on (either to stories or to the bonus activity).
- Make a list of 3 sounds, 6 words, and 4 phrases you want to focus on. (Use your Student Challenge Book for inspiration.)
- Record yourself saying the sounds, words and phrases.
- Please let Maura know when you have completed your recording.
- Choose the first 10 words from the stack of cards.
- Using a dry erase marker, mark the words as follows:
- Circle the suffix
- Scoop the base word’s syllables
- Mark the syllable type (c, c, v-e, v-e)
- Mark the vowels as long or short
- Box the welded sounds
- Star the bonus letter
- Underline digraphs with one solid line
- Underline blends with a separate line for each sound
- Double check your work.
- Ask Maura to come check your cards.
BONUS: Please make a marking quiz for a classmate...
- Using your Student Challenge Book, Student Composition Book, and/or Student Notebook, choose 10 words for a classmate to mark.
- Write the words on a piece of lined paper, skipping a line or two between each word.
- On a separate sheet of lined paper, make an answer key (write the words again and mark them).
- Give both the quiz and the answer key to Maura.
- Flip through the stack of prefixes and roots (share with others at the table please).
- Set aside any cards that you cannot remember the meaning of.
- Star or highlight those prefixes and/or roots in your Student Notebook.
- Create tricks for yourself to memorize the ones you’re struggling with (for example - I remember that “ex” means out of or away from by thinking of the word “exit” which means to go out of a place)
- Set the cards and your Student Notebook aside.
- Take the mini-quiz.
- Check your work.
- In your Student Notebook, star or highlight the prefixes and/or roots you got wrong.
- Study some more.
- Take the second mini-quiz.
BONUS: Please make a marking quiz for a classmate…
- Choose 10 prefixes and Latin roots that you want to focus on.
- Make a matching quiz by putting the prefixes and roots in one column and their meanings in another column on a piece of lined paper.
- On a separate sheet of lined paper, make an answer key (write the words again and match them).
- Give both the quiz and the answer key to Maura.