Houghton Mifflin Reading

Houghton Mifflin Reading © 2001

Your child will go through one story a week until the Theme is finished.  We will then do two weeks of review and intense writing.  On Monday they will typiclly be introduced to the story, the comprehension concept, and a phonics lesson that goes with the spelling words.  Tuesday they will learn their vocabulary words, high frequency words, and the grammer concept which will be practiced daily.  Wednesday we will read the story and discuss the strategy and skill focus.  Thursday we will review the story, go over the comprehension skill, complete some phonics review. Friday they will take a spelling, grammer, and reading test.  We will also review other information and study skills.

 

Shopping from Dragon Gets By by Dav Pilkey

Dragon Gets By

 

Online Word Sort for short A and I

 

Vocab, spelling resources

 

Skill: Parts of a Sentence PPT

 

Verbs PPT

 

Short A and Short I Sound Sort

 

Dav Pilkey Website

 

Teaching Your Students about Nutrition

 

Online Food Pyramid Game

 

Julius by Angela Johnson

Julius 

 

Online Word Sort for short 0, U and E

 

Vocab, test and spelling resources

 

Short O, E and U Sound Sort

 

Guided Reading Lesson for the Read Aloud

 

Julius Website page by illustrator Dav Pilkey

 

Alaska

 

Mrs. Brown Went to Town by Wong Herbert Yee

 Mrs. Brown Went to Town

 

Online Word Sort for Long A and I

 

vocab, spelling resources

 

Long A / Short A Picture Sort

 

Long I / Short I Picture Sort

 

Short and Long A  flip book

 

Short and Long I flip book

 

Wong Herbert Yee's Homepage

 

Farm Animals Around the World

  

 

 

Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant   

Henry and Mudge

 

Nature WalkTheme Opener

 

Online Word Sort for Long E, O and U

 

Story Resources

 

Long E / Short E Picture Sort

 

Long O / Short O Picture Sort

 

Reader's Theatre

 

A letter from Cynthia Rylant

 

Activity Sheets

 

Camping in the Classroom

 

Campfire Songs

 

 Exploring Parks with Ranger Dockett by Alice K. Flanagan

Ranger Dockett

 

Online Word Sorts for Consonant Clusters

 

Online Words Sort for Two Sounds for C

 

Story Resources

 

Vocabulary Cards

 

Fact and Opinion Sort

 

Smokey's Kids

 

Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George

Around the Pond

 

Online Word Sort for Double Consonants

 

Story Resources 

 

Categorize and Classify Worksheet by Marcia Goudie

 

Pond Life Picture Cards

 

Make your own virtual pond!

 

Habitats

 

 

 

Chinatown by William Low

 

Chinatown

 

Online Word Sort for Digraphs

 

Story Resources

 

Vocabulary Picture Cards

 

Digraph Resources from Carl's Corner website

 

Links

 

A Trip to the Firehouse by Wendy Cheyette Lewison

A Trip to the Firehouse

Online Word Sort for ai, ay

Online Word Sort for Compound Words

Story Resource  Pages

Vocabulary Cards

Virtual Firehouse Tour

Fire Safety for Kids 

Fire Safety Unit Ideas

 

Big Bushy Mustache by Gary Soto

 

Big Bushy Mustache

 

Online Word Sort for Suffixes

 

Story Resources

 

Reader's Theatre

 

More about Gary Soto

 

SCORE Guide to other Gary Soto Short Stories

 

Jamaica Louise James by Amy Hest

Jamaica Louise James

Online Word Sort for ee, ea

Plurals Lessons

Plurals Memory Game

 

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

 

Officer Buckle and Gloria

 

Online Word Sort for AR words

 

Online Word Sort for OR, ORE

 

Reader's Theatre

About Peggy Rathmann

Online Resources

Extension Activities

Guided Reading Lesson

Safety Tips Poster lesson

 

Ant by Rebecca Stefoff

 

Ant

 

Online Word Sort for -nd, -ng, -nk, -nt, -mp

 

Story Resources

 

Online Resources

 

The Great Ball Game by Joseph Bruchac

The Great Ball Game

 

Online Word Sort for ow and oa

 

Story Resources

 

Guided Reading Lesson

 

 

Brothers & Sisters by Ellen B. Senisi

Brothers and Sisters

 

Guided Reading Lesson

Jalepeño Bagels by Natasha Wing

Jalapeño Bagels

 

Contraction PowerPoint

 

Contraction Bingo

 

Online Word Sort for Contractions

 

Contraction Jeopardy PowerPoint

 

Reader's Theatre

 

Guided Reading Lesson

 

Carousel by Pat Cummings

Carousel

 

Online Word Sort for Prefixes

Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

Thunder Cake

 

Online Word Sort for -ed, -ing #1

 

Reader's Theatre

  

Sequence Booklet - by A. Madden

 

Thunder Cake recipe - shared by A. Madden

 

Patricia Polacco's Website

 

Guided Reading Lesson

 

 

 

The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola

The Art Lesson

 

Online Word Sort for OO

 

Reader's Theatre

 

Guided Reading Lesson

Moses Goes to a Concert by Isaac Millman

Moses Goes to a Concert

 

Online Word Sort for -igh, y, and long I

 

Story Resources

 

Guided Reading Lesson

 

San Francisco Symphony for Kids

 

The School Mural by Sarah Vázquez

The School Mural

 

Online Word Sort for -ed,-ing #2

 

Guided Reading Lesson

Writing

 

 

How to Write a Paragraph

 

Writing a complete sentence

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spelling

 

 

Spelling Packet

 

Additional Spelling Words

Vocabulary

 

Using Vocabulary Matches

 

Theme 1 Vocabulary Matches

Theme 2 Vocabulary Matches

Theme 3 Vocabulary Matches

Theme 4 Vocabulary Matches

Theme 5 Vocabulary Matches

Theme 6 Vocabulary Matches

 

Word Analysis Form

 

 Fluency

 

 

Theme 1 Practice Passages

 

Theme 2 Practice Passages

 

Theme 3 Practice Passages

 

Theme 4 Practice Passages

 

1st grade sight word booklet

 

2nd grade sight word booklet

 

Ping Pong Fluency Link

 

Decoding Multisyllabic Words and More in HM

 

Story Summaries