Directions: Choose assignments from the menu weekly for free choice class work and homework. Have fun Picture Cards Memory Match Computer Fun Write your pattern words on cards. On the back of each one, draw a picture of the meaning of each word. Play flash cards – use picture to spell word or use word to tell meaning. Write your 5 high frequency words on cards (make two sets) and play “Memory Match” with someone. Type 10 pattern words or 5 high frequency words. Make each word have a different font. You can even add clipart next to them. You may print them out to paste in your notebook if you’d like. Word Hunt Speed Sort Vocabulary Match Look for words in familiar reading materials that fit in the same categories as your pattern words. Record in categories in notebook. Don’t forget oddballs! Hold all pattern word cards Lay out your pattern word in a stack. Read each word cards face up in front of you. aloud and place it in the Have someone give a definition correct category pile. Use a for one of the words. Choose timer and be as fast as you the word that matches the can! Check work when done. definition best. Concentration You Pick Spelling Math Shuffle pattern word cards Sort the word cards into Think of a creative activity and place face down in an new categories while array (columns and rows). With to do with 10 pattern words someone watches. See if or 5 high frequency words. partner, take turns turning your partner can decide Share the activity with the over 2 cards. Matches follow class. the rules for each category. the same weekly pattern or Think: letter/sound are both oddballs. Go again patterns, meaning, when you make a match. Winner has the most pairs. beginning/endings SAW Blind Sort Making Words Have a partner call out your Write your 10 pattern Sort word cards into pattern words. You write words. Next to each word, closed sort categories. each word in the correct write at least two other Alphabetize the words in category in your notebook. words that can be spelled Have your partner check each category and copy using the letters in your your words with the cards at the sort this way into word. Example: the end. your notebook. pickle= lick, like, lip… (Sort, Alphabetize, Write)