Students will create word chains with short-vowel sounds that begin and end with single consonants or consonant blends. Students will attend to the sequence of sounds within words and strengthen their understanding of the connections between letter and sound sequences by substituting, adding, and deleting letters to create word chains. 

This resource is a game about using apostrophes. Students will work in a pairs to identify sentences that are missing apostrophes or have apostrophes in the wrong places.

In this lesson, students will study greeting cards to build motivation to read and write, practice reading fluency, and attend to print concepts. This experience allows students to study the crafting techniques authors use when they create greeting cards. After exploring various greeting cards, students have the opportunity to create greeting cards and share them with other students.