WordStudy Vocabulary Start1 UNIT 2 pass swim passing swimming plan talk Reproducible Tools, Activities, & Home Connections planning talking shut Name Date Parent Directions: Have your child read each word in the box and then write it under the correct heading. Have your child tell you what rule he or she used to sort each word. Name Date shutting Choose the Right -ing Word Directions: Read the sentences and choose the -ing word with the correct spelling to fill in the blank. Think about the rules for adding -ing to words. 1. My little sister is just learning about her name. stop printing stopping printting 2. I was my ball glove as I was running out the door. grabing grabbing thank thanking turn turning Word Cards (BLM 3) 3. José was Word Study & Vocabulary on the 1: Unit ladder 2: Adding -ing to to get words the with VC book and VCC off patterns of the top shelf. standding standing Pattern Sort talk talking pass passing thank thanking turn turning stop stopping plan planning shut shutting run running Doubled Not Doubled Name Date 4. The mystery writer was his next book. ploting plotting R ockville c ity News 5. The teacher was the results of the race. A Weekend of Rain Sam Li, president of the Rockville graphhing graphing By Juan Smith, News Writer Power Company, said that more than five hundred homes and stores lost The people of Rockville were mopping power during the weekend. The storms 6. I was just what the right answer up was. this morning after a weekend of knocked trees and branches over onto guessing guesing strong storms. The town received Take-Home fifteen Activity power (BLM lines, 6) which caused people to inches of rain on Saturday and six lose their electricity. The power company inches on Sunday. is working hard to repair the lines, he said. You ll not find us resting until Water is dripping through our everyone in Rockville has electricity Classroom Activity (BLM 7) roof, said Elmer Pickle, who owns the again. hardware store on Main Street. We re standing in a foot of water inside the Isabel Garcia, Rockville police chief, store. It will take us many hours to clean said that local roads had to be closed up, so we re shutting our store until because they were covered by water. All tomorrow. roads are now open again, she said. Six other shops on Main Street will also be closed today. We have no electricity, said Katie Katz, who runs the bookstore. We ve been asking for help from the power company since yesterday. I think we ll be getting our power back this afternoon. Schools were also open today, as usual. Bus drivers said they had no trouble picking up students. We are very careful, said Archie Jones, who is in charge of the buses. The roads are fine this morning, and our buses are running on time. Reading Passage (BLM 9) B e n c h m a r k E d u c a t i o n C o m p a n y
Adding -ing to Words Words that end with vowel-consonant (VC): Double the final consonant, add -ing skip + p + ing = skipping Exception: Words ending with x fix + ing = fixing Words that end with vowel-consonant-consonant (VCC): No change, just add -ing work + ing = working plant + ing = planting Anchor Chart (BLM 1)
Doubled Not Doubled Oddball Category Cards (BLM 2)
pass swim passing swimming plan talk planning talking shut thank shutting thanking stop turn stopping turning Word Cards (BLM 3)
brag plant bragging planting count stand counting standing drop start dropping starting laugh work laughing working Word Cards (BLM 4)
fix pretend fixing pretending grin scratch grinning scratching learn wax learning waxing cap wrap capping wrapping Word Cards (BLM 5)
Name Date Pattern Sort Parent Directions: Have your child read each word in the box and then write it under the correct heading. Have your child tell you what rule he or she used to sort each word. talk talking pass passing thank thanking turn turning stop stopping plan planning shut shutting run running Doubled Not Doubled Take-Home Activity (BLM 6)
Name Date Choose the Right -ing Word Directions: Read the sentences and choose the -ing word with the correct spelling to fill in the blank. Think about the rules for adding -ing to words. 1. My little sister is just learning about her name. printing printting 2. I was my baseball glove as I was running out the door. grabing grabbing 3. José was on the ladder to get the book off of the top shelf. standding standing 4. The mystery writer was his next book. ploting plotting 5. The teacher was the results of the race. graphhing graphing 6. I was just what the right answer was. guessing guesing Classroom Activity (BLM 7)
Name Date Choose the Right -ing Word Parent Directions: Have your child read the sentences and write the correct spelling of the words on the blanks. 1. We re at the library on our way home. stopping stoping 2. Will you be with me to school every day? walking walkking 3. The boy in the band was to the beat of the song. druming drumming 4. We could hear Sondra for her dog to come home. yelling yeling 5. I told my teacher that I will be in my homework tomorrow. turnning turning 6. I asked my mom what she was for dinner. planing planning Take-Home Activity (BLM 8)
Name Date R o c k v i l l e Ci t y Ne w s A Weekend of Rain By Juan Smith, News Writer The people of Rockville were mopping up this morning after a weekend of strong storms. The town received fifteen inches of rain on Saturday and six inches on Sunday. Water is dripping through our roof, said Elmer Pickle, who owns the hardware store on Main Street. We re standing in a foot of water inside the store. It will take us many hours to clean up, so we re shutting our store until tomorrow. Six other shops on Main Street will also be closed today. We have no electricity, said Katie Katz, who runs the bookstore. We ve been asking for help from the power company since yesterday. I think we ll be getting our power back this afternoon. Sam Li, president of the Rockville Power Company, said that more than five hundred homes and stores lost power during the weekend. The storms knocked trees and branches over onto power lines, which caused people to lose their electricity. The power company is working hard to repair the lines, he said. You ll not find us resting until everyone in Rockville has electricity again. Isabel Garcia, Rockville police chief, said that local roads had to be closed because they were covered by water. All roads are now open again, she said. Schools were also open today, as usual. Bus drivers said they had no trouble picking up students. We are very careful, said Archie Jones, who is in charge of the buses. The roads are fine this morning, and our buses are running on time. Reading Passage (BLM 9)
Name Date Spelling Dictation Review Words 1. 2. 3. New Words 1. 2. 3. Sentence Spelling Dictation (BLM 10)
Name Date Spelling Peer Check Directions: Work with a partner. Follow the directions from your teacher to use this BLM to write your spelling words. First Try Second Try (if needed) Correct Spelling 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Spelling Peer Check (BLM 11)