Lesson 5

d. Ask your student to look at this passage as you read it aloud.

Little Sparrow called to Pig, "How do you like this try?"
"It is time for you to fly, Little Sparrow," smiled Pig.

Ask your student to find the word in the first sentence that tells what Little Sparrow did and circle it. called

The letters -ed have been added to the end of the word call to mean something has already been done. The -ed makes the sound /d/ in called.

Ask your student to find the word in the second sentence that tells what Pig did as he yelled to Little Sparrow and circle it. smiled

The word smiled is spelled s-m-i-l-e without ed added to the end of the word. Can you think of a rule for adding -ed to the word smile? If a word ends in a silent e, drop the e before adding -ed. The -ed makes the sound /d/ in smiled.

Ask your student to add -ed to these words, remembering the new rule he learned about the silent e: 1) bake baked   2) dance danced 3) love loved   4) race raced   5) wave waved   6) hope hoped Say the new words, and then act them out.

e. Ask your student to copy the spelling words for this week. Read them to or with your student: kit  call  keg  cut.

Day 2

2. a. Review the story "Will Little Sparrow Fly?" with your student.

b. Find the pictures for 2b on page 77 in the Student Activity Book (download PDF file). Ask your student to cut them out. Talk to your student about each picture, asking him what he sees in the picture and what is happening. Ask your student, to put the pictures in the order in which they happened. He may use the reader, if needed.

c. In the story, Pig tells Little Sparrow, "Come here, Little Sparrow, I have a tale to tell you." The word tale means a story, like a fairy tale. Can you think of a word that sounds the same as tale but has a different meaning? tail

Ask your student what this tail means. Both words have a long /a/ sound, but they are spelled differently and have different meanings. Words that sound the same but have different meanings are called homonyms.