Elementary School Lessons

Reading

Short and Long A vowel words

• Words with final E: make cape stage paste

• Words with AY: spray bray play way clay

• Words with AI: faith chain saint train mail

Short and Long E vowel words

• Words with EE: bee screen week freeze

• Words with EA: dream clean meat beach

Reading Prep

Short a words in sentences:

1. Nat is in the van.
2. The rat ran fast.
3. The lad had a nap.
4. The man has a fat cat.
5. Sam can pass he can of jam.
6. Dad’s cap has a tag.
7. The lass is sad.
8. She is fat.

Singing Action Songs

Poems can be sung with actions and these are called action songs. It is easier to memorize words correctly if you sing them over and over again. In this way, you will remember the words easily.

Doing Expressive Reading

In reading a story aloud, it is better to use your voice, and sometimes, your hands, feet, or body – to express the feelings or emotions that the story wants to convey. Through that technique, the story becomes alive to those who listen to it.

MONKEYS

The funniest thing / in the world / I know /

is watching / the monkeys / in the show//

Jumping and running / and racing around /

way up to the top / of the pole / then down //

First, they are here / and then they are there /

and just almost any/and everywhere //

Screeching and scratching / wherever they go /

They are the funniest things / in the world I know //

Sequencing Events

Number the events as they happened in the story:

__ Little by little the rocks are worn out.

__ Water and limestone from the floor build up stalagmites.

__ Stalactites and stalagmites meet, forming columns and pillars.

__ In time, caves are formed.

__ Water and limestone from the ceiling form stalactites.

__ Running water finds its way to cracks of rocks.

Drawing Conclusions

Conclusion is making a decision based on the past situation or experience.