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Wonderful Words of the Week: A Complement to the First Grade Wonders Reading Series

This past school year our district adopted the Wonders Reading series for grades K-5.  That means we had to scrap our First Grade Words of the Week phonics program.  I was not a happy camper.  To make the transition a bit smoother, Janine Every and I created the Wonderful Words of the Week packet that you are reading about now.  We utilize the activities from this packet for morning job and center work.  You could also use these pages for early finishers, word work, and for homework.  We took the spelling words and high frequency words from the Wonders series to create our word lists.  The word lists start with 10 words (Smart Start Week 1, Smart Start Week 2, Smart Start Week 3, Unit 1 Week 1, and Unit 1 Week 2) and then they go up to 12 words for the rest of the Units.
You can click and download the preview file on TpT to get Unit 1,
Week 1 to try for FREE.  We have also included
the Word Lists for all six units and Smart Start in the preview file.

Each week includes the following activities, which can be
used as literacy centers, morning work, word work, early finisher work, or
homework.
·     
Flash Cards
·     
Word Search
·     
Sentence Unscramble (three different ones each
week, two to a page)
·     
Word Unscramble
·     
Say It – Trace It – Stamp It (two pages)
·     
Cootie Catcher
·     
Spin a Word (two pages)
·     
Tiny Word Search
·     
Search-Read-Write the Room (three pages)

This is currently a growing bundle.  The other units are done, we just need to proof before posting and we did not want you to miss out on the TpT sale.  The price will go up with each unit we add to the packet.  
Included so far:
·     
Smart Start Week One – High Frequency Words
·     
Smart Start Week Two – High Frequency Words
·     
Smart Start Week Three – High Frequency Words
·     
 
·     
Unit One, Week One – Short a and High Frequency
Words
·     
Unit One, Week Two – Short I and High Frequency
Words
·     
Unit One, Week Three – L Blends and High
Frequency Words
·     
Unit One, Week Four – Short o and High Frequency
Words
·     
Unit One, Week Five – R Blends, S Blends, and
High Frequency Words
Coming Soon!
·     
Unit Two, Week One – Short e and High Frequency
Words
·     
Unit Two, Week Two – Short u and High Frequency
Words
·     
Unit Two, Week Three – Ending Consonant Blends
and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Two, Week Four– Consonant Digraphs and High
Frequency Words
·     
Unit Two, Week Five –Consonant Digraphs and High
Frequency Words
·     
 
·     
Unit Three, Week One–Long a (a_e) and High
Frequency Words
·     
Unit Three, Week Two –Long i (i_e) and High
Frequency Words
·     
Unit Three, Week Three –Soft c, Soft g, and High
Frequency Words
·     
Unit Three, Week Four –Long o (o_e), Long u
(u_e), and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Three, Week Five –Vowel Variants (oo) and
High Frequency Words
·     
 
·     
Unit Four, Week One –Long a (a, ai, and ay) and
High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Four, Week Two –Long e (e, ee, and ea) and
High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Four, Week Three –Long o (o, oa, ow, and oe)
and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Four, Week Four –Long i (I, y, igh, and ie)
and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Four, Week Five –Long e (y and ey) and High
Frequency Words
·     
 
·     
Unit Five, Week One – R-controlled Vowels (–ar)
and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Five, Week Two – R-controlled Vowels (–er,
-ir, and -ur) and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Five, Week Three – R-controlled Vowels (–or,
-ore, and -oar) and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Five, Week Four – Diphthongs (ou and ow)
and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Five, Week Five – Diphthongs (oi and oy)
and High Frequency Words
·     
 
·     
Unit Six, Week One – Variant Vowels (oo, u, u_e,
ew, ue, ui, and ou) and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Six, Week Two– Variant Vowels (au and aw)
and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Six, Week Three – Silent Letters (wr, kn,
and gn) and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Six, Week Four– Three Letter Blends (scr,
spl, spr, str, and thr) and High Frequency Words
·     
Unit Six, Week Five – R-Controlled Vowels (air,
are, and ear) and High Frequency Words
Feel free to ask any questions.  If you purchase this file we ask that you not share this file with
colleagues.  Our terms of use are for one
classroom use only.  Districts are
encouraged to purchase multi-user licenses. 
For more on district purchases, click {HERE} to go to the TpT blog.
As always, feel free to pin this post. 
Happy Teaching!
-Erica Bohrer & Janine Every

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  1. Maria O'Brien

    August 3, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    Hi Erica,
    I purchased your Farmhouse Classroom Decor Bundle during the TpT sale yesterday and am wondering if your Farmhouse-themed Inspirational Posters will be included in that bundle. They look amazing!
    Many thanks for your hard work, Maria

    • Erica Bohrer

      August 3, 2017 at 6:18 pm

      They are in the bundle! Thanks for your purchase.

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