September Literacy
Skills
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Practice writing complete
sentences with our spelling words.
Tear a picture out of a magazine
and write a story about it. Fold
pieces of paper and make your
own mini books.
 Use complete sentences.
 Begin each sentence with
a capital letter.
 Stretch words out to spell
them as best you can
when writing.
 Focus on turning one small
moment in your narrative
writing into a whole story.
 Bring characters to life in
narrative writing.
VOCABULARY
Locate these words in the books you
read. Use these words in your writing
and in conversations with people.
Write a sentence with each word.
Week 1 (Sept. 14th)
rapidly
delighted
bold
timid
Week 2(Sept. 21st)
memory
independent
disgusting
scrumptious
Week 3 (Sept. 28th)
neighborhood
neighborly
spot
rush
PHONICS SPELLING PATTERNS
The weekly phonics pattern(s) is listed
below as well as some sample words
that fit this pattern. See what other
words you can think of with your child.
Our weekly Spelling Tests will reflect
these phonics patterns.
 Week 1 (Sept. 14-18)
 Short /a/ sound
o cat, hat, man, tap
 Inflectional ending (s)
o cats, hats, bags
 Week 2 (Sept. 21-25)
 Short /i/ sound
o lid, big, pig, him, sit
 Double final consonants
 (ff, ss, zz, ll)
o jazz, hiss, well, puff
 Week 3 (Sept. 28- Oct. 2)
 Initial /l/ blends
o glad, plot, clap, sled
 Inflectional ending (s)
o flips, claps, blobs