Word Study

Here is the focus for this week's word study groups. You can help reinforce these concepts if you're reading aloud together and you see a word that follows the spelling pattern seen below. Check with your child to know which group they're in (they named the groups themselves!).

Troublemakers - endings (-s/es; -ing, -ed) Ex: stop becomes stopping
Red Foxes - short and long a sounds Ex: flag; pail; save
No Namers - prefixes (in-; un-; mis-; dis-) Ex: happy becomes unhappy, meaning the opposite of