5th Grade – Academic Week 1

Handwriting Strategies: Sitting Position

Handwriting Strategies: Pencil Grip

Students need a six-sided pencil.*** This instruction is different than most of the others.

Handwriting Strategies: Top line, Baseline, Midpoint

Students need Spalding Clock Face Cards.

Handwriting Strategies: Correct Directionality

Handwriting Strategies: 6 Feature Formations

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Phonogram Introduction: Begin at 2 on the Clock

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Phonogram Introduction: Begin with a Line (b-n)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Phonogram Introduction: Begin with a Line (p-z)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Marking System: Multiletter Phonograms (example 1)

Marking System: Multiletter Phonograms (example 2)

Rule 1 Introduction

Phonogram Introduction: Multiletters (sh, ee,th, ow, ou, oo, ch, ar, ay, ai, oy, oi)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Marking System: Multiletter Phonograms (example 1)

Marking System: Multiletter Phonograms (example 2)

Marking System: Numbers Above Phonograms (example 1)

Marking System: Numbers Above Phonograms (example 2)

Marking System: Double Underlines (example 1)

Marking System: Double Underlines (example 2)

Rule 4 Introduction

Marking System: Underline Vowel, Rule 4 (example 1)

Marking System: Underline Vowel, Rule 4 (example 2)

Marking System: Underline Vowel, Rule 4 (example 3)

Numbers: Start at 2

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Numbers: Start with a Line

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Numbers: Start at 10

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Phonogram Introduction: Multiletters (er, ir, ur, wor, ear, ng, ea, aw, au, or, ck, wh)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Rule 6 Introduction

Rule 7 Job 1 Introduction

Rule 7 Job 2 Introduction

Rule 7 Job 3 Introduction

Rule 7 Job 4 Introduction

Rule 7 Job 5 Introduction

Manuscript Capital Letters: 2 on the Clock

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Phonogram Introduction: Multiletters (ed, ew, ui, oa, gu, ph, ough, oe, ey, igh)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Marking System: Bracket (example 1)

Marking System: Bracket (example 2)

Rule 2 Introduction

Rule 26 Introduction

Manuscript Capital Letters: Line Letters (A-L)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Phonogram Introduction: Multiletters (kn, gn, wr, ie, dge, ei, eigh, ti, si, ci)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Rule 14 Introduction

Rule 16 Introduction

Manuscript Capital Letters: Line Letters (M-Y)

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.

Manuscript Capital Letters: Looks Like Lowercase

Students need Spalding lined paper and a six-sided pencil.