Transcript Word Study Homework Expectations

EACH NIGHT, MONDAY-THURSDAY
You will be expected to choose 1 assignment to do. Each night, you are expected to
do a different assignment on notebook paper. You will have the following:
1. Monday nights’ assignment (front of page 1)
2. Tuesday night’s assignment (back of page 1)
3. Wednesday night’s assignment (front of page 2)
4. Thursday night’s assignment (back of page 2)
All assignments STAY in your Take home binder and are turned in to be checked every
Friday morning.
WHAT IS THE MENU?
There are 12 different assignments that you can choose from. You must pick 4 different ones to do each week!
1.
Write a story using 6 of the words.
2.
Write a meaningful sentence for each word.
3.
Divide each word into syllables.
4.
Draw a creative picture and hide the words in it.
5.
Write an antonym/synonym for each word.
6.
Cut the words out of magazines and make a collage.
7.
Draw a picture for each word to show the meaning.
8.
Write all the words in cursive.
9.
ABC order.
10. Create a poem, song, or chant using as many words as possible to present to the class.
11. Write newspaper headlines using 6 of the words.
12. A well thought out activity on your own, check with the teacher first!
REMEMBER……
Word study homework needs to be in your best handwriting, and it is an expectation
that you pick different activities each week to keep you motivated and interested
in learning new vocabulary.
Knowing the definition AND the spelling of the word are both important!
You will be graded on knowing the meaning of the words and given a spelling test
each Friday to use to enhance your writing projects.
EXAMPLES OF WORD STUDY HOMEWORK:
On Monday during class, you will be expected to writing down the words in your
agenda. It is your responsibility to spell the words correctly when copying them
down.
breakfast - the first meal of the day
comfortable - having comfort
cozy - warm and comfortable
forest - thick woods
gobbled - ate fast and greedily
hungry - feeling a desire or need for food
promise - to give one’s word
WRITE A STORY USING 6 OF THE WORDS
It was a chilly morning in the Black forest. Goldie was taking her morning
stroll down the path she took every morning. Having not eaten breakfast,
made her tummy rumble from being so very hungry. She promised her mother
that she would be home before long, but then Goldie took a wrong turn. After
many minutes, that seemed like hours, Goldie found a cozy looking cottage
next to a babbling brook. Goldie decided to enter the cottage to seek help to
get home. Upon entering, Goldie notice right away them most comfortable
chairs that she had ever seen.
Remember your story must have a beginning, middle, and
end. This example is only the beginning and some of the
middle.
WRITE A MEANINGFUL SENTENCE
Be sure to number the sentences and underline to vocabulary word.
NOT a meaningful sentence:
I ate breakfast.
I am cozy.
I see the forest.
Meaningful:
During breakfast this morning, I ate bacon, pancakes, and toast.
The thick forest behind my house is swarming with slithering critters and I refuse to
enter it.
Since I was starving, I gobbled up my steak as quick as a lion on a hunt.
DIVIDE EACH WORD INTO SYLLABLES
Number paper and remember to use your best handwriting. Make sure its clear where
you break the words into syllables.
1. break/fast
2. Com/fort/able
3. Co/zy
4. For/est
5. Gob/bled
6. Hun/gry
7. Pro/mise
DRAW A CREATIVE PICTURE AND HIDE THE
WORDS
You could hide the words on the branch and in the feathers. Where
would you hide the words?
WRITE AN ANTONYM/SYNONYM FOR EACH
Comfortable
Antonym:
miserable
Synonym:
Comfy
Complete the tree map for each word. Sometimes you will
find synonyms or antonyms already on our word list. Use a
thesaurus to help you. Don’t have a thesaurus? There is
one online… For Free!!!
http://thesaurus.com/ Make sure you ask permission
from your parents because the site has
advertisements!
CUT WORDS OUT OF MAGAZINES
This is an example of a
magazine word collage. I
would need to look in the
magazine for the words
breakfast, comfortable, cozy,
forest, gobbled, hungry,
promise.
DRAW A PICTURE TO SHOW MEANING
1. Breakfast
2. Comfortable
3. Forest
4. gobbled
WRITE ALL THE WORDS IN CURSIVE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
breakfast
comfortable
cozy
forest
gobbled
hungry
promise
Remember to TAKE YOUR TIME! Neat
handwriting is expected. If you have
trouble with a letter, circle it so we can
talk about it.
ABC ORDER
1. breakfast
2. comfortable
3. cozy
4. forest
5. gobbled
6. hungry
7. promise
All of your words must be used. Be careful if the words begin the same!
CREATE A POEM, SONG OR CHANT
On Friday you can present it to the class, if you’d like. 
For Example:
Promise me we will have breakfast
Promise me we will eat lunch.
Just promise me when I’m hungry,
You’ll give me something to munch!
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.aspx
WRITE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
Breakfast Bites Back
Ikea’s Comfortable Chairs Climb in
Popularity
Forest Fires Rage Through The State
Students Gobbled Up New Foods on The
School Menu
Hungry Hippos Escaped the Zoo
Politicians Promise to Lower Taxes
WHAT OTHER IDEAS COULD YOU COME UP WITH?