Short U and 'Moon' Sound Vowel

• This material focuses on vowel sounds, particularly the short "u" sound and the vowel sound in "moon."
• It includes a spelling focus, a word study section, practice exercises, and challenges to reinforce learning.
• It also includes opposites, rhyming, classifying and strategic spelling sections to expand learning.

Spelling Focus

• Short "u" is often spelled with the letter "u" and gives the example of "study".
• The vowel sound in "moon" can be spelled "ue" or "o" with examples "true" and "who".

Word Study

• The section involves learning and understanding the context of various words.
• Includes words like: study, summer, such, true, due, who, move, truck, uncle, Sunday, glue, clue, lose, movie

Practice

• Instructions to sort the list words based on their vowel sound spellings: "ue", "o", and "u"
• Practice involves writing four words with the "ue" sound, four with the "o" sound, and six with the "u" sound.
• Requires choosing six words from the list and writing a sentence for each to demonstrate understanding and usage.

Challenge

• Challenge words include: dumped, gruesome, clumsy, whoever.

Opposites

• The activity requires finding list words that are antonyms (opposites) of given words.
• The words to find opposites for include: win, aunt, winter, false

Classifying

• This section involves categorizing list words into specific groups.
• The groups are: car/van, Friday/Saturday, what/when, TV program/play, think/practice

Rhyming

• Task involves identifying words from the list that rhyme with "true" and "much", and "groove".
• Requires writing three list words that have similar endings and rhyme with the word "true"
• Requires writing the word that rhymes with the word "much".
• Requires writing the word that rhymes with the word "groove".

Strategic Spelling

• The section focuses on understanding the meanings of words to improve spelling.
• It defines "move" as a covered truck used for moving.
• It defines "mover" as a person or company whose business is moving furniture
• It defines "movable" as able to be moved or carried from place to place.

Review - Crossword Puzzle

• Review the vocabulary words by completing a crossword puzzle.
• Puzzle clues relate to the definitions and usage of the words in the box.
• Across clues: rhymes with much, go from one place to another, not false, when is the report.
• Down clues: whom/whose, a season, work at learning.

Using a Thesaurus

• Explains the structure and components of a thesaurus entry.
• A thesaurus entry begins with the entry word, definition, example sentence, synonyms with definitions and examples, and sometimes antonyms
• Provides a sample entry for the word "afraid," including its definition, synonyms (frightened, scared, alarmed), and an antonym (fearless).
• The activity requires the user to look up the word "move" in their Writer's Thesaurus and answer questions about it.