Spelling Words Jan 20-25

Focus this week:
long /oo/ as in "boot"
short /oo/ as in "book" 

*often the word family -ook will have the short /ugh/ sound.

Green

too, book, look, foot*, boot, food, soon, cool, room, tool
*oddball word, it should rhyme with boot but does not. 


Yellow

lose*, mushroom, groom, stood, igloo, 
shook, brook, crook, who*, two*
*oddball words: sound like the /oo/ as in boot, but different spelling. 


Purple

school, driftwood, caribou*, cookie, igloo, loose, lose*, moose, goose, snowshoe*
*oddball words: sound like /oo/ as in book, but different spelling. 

Try:
-writing words on pieces of rectangular paper and sort according to long/short and oddball
-write part of the word and have your child fill in the rest. 
Ie. c_ _ kie
-for each word, write a sentence.