August 22-26

• This week's reading story is Rope Burn.
• The weekly focus skill is Plot: Conflict and Resolution.
• This week's vocabulary words are humiliation, expectations, fringes, hesitating, sincere, and coaxed.
• The weekly  grammar skill is complete sentences and sentence fragments; and also declarative and interrogative sentences.
• This week's spelling words have a short vowel pattern: bandage, chest, drift, dull, dusk, stretch, flock, fond, measure, does, scrap, shift, smash, switch, swept, threat, timid, plaid, trust, and twist.
• There will be a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• A study guide with all vocabulary words and their definitions and spelling words goes home every Monday.
• Encourage your child to reread the weekly story nightly and study vocabulary and spelling words.