Each week your student will be bringing home Spelling Words of the Week. Typically these words will be sight words. Sight words are words we want kindergarteners to recognize by sight without having to sound them out while reading. Spelling words will also often include word families (rhyming words) such as the –at word family including words like cat and bat. In order to better prepare students for first grade we are going to have weekly quizzes on these words. Student’s performance on these tests will influence their overall grades on report cards so be sure to have your student practice these words at home. Also at the end of the marking period we will be quizzing students on their ability to read past sight words (not word family words) and this will impact their overall grade as well.
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