Sample Lessons

Teacher's Note: As your student completes each lesson, choose skills from the Review Activities that he needs. The Review Activities follow each lesson.

	Matt stood at the edge of the clearing for some time after his father had gone out of sight among the trees. There was just a chance that his father might turn back, that perhaps he had forgotten something or had some last word of advice. This was one time Matt reckoned he wouldn't mind the advice, no matter how many times he had heard it before. But finally he had to admit that this was not going to happen. His father had really gone. He was alone, with miles of wilderness stretching on every side.

From The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. Copyright (c) 1983 by Elizabeth George Speare. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. All rights reserved.

Read the literature passage with your teacher.

Write the first two sentences of the literature passage from dictation and edit.

Make a spelling list of four to six words from any misspelled words or use the following suggested list: edge, chance, advice, forgotten.

Discuss with your teacher the reasons for misspelling your words.

When you spell a word with a single short single vowel sound followed by a soft /g/ sound, it is often spelled dge.

Say the words aloud as you write them. Underline dge.

edge badge ledge lodge

sludge fudge bridge hedge

Focus on Spelling

who what when where why
Bonus Word: reporter

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