How Many Words Can You Make?
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to build and spell simple words by blending sounds together. For example, when given the letters “a,” “e,” “c,” “b,” “d,” “g” and “s,” your child should be able to use the letters to build and read at least three words.
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Strong Words!
3rd Grade
During third grade, your child will be expected to distinguish between shades of meaning among related words—such as “wondered,” “suspected,” “believed” and “knew”—and sort the words in order from the weakest to the strongest meaning.
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Using Sight-Words
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will learn to spell frequently occurring irregular words, such as “know” and “could,” and learn to recognize and read them on sight.
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Past Tense Word Search
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will learn subtleties in words’ meanings and make real-life connections between words and their use, such as understanding that both a bed and sofa could be called cozy.
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Rhyming Words Memory Match
Kindergarten
When entering kindergarten, your child should be able to recognize and match words that rhyme.
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Building Two-Syllable Words
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to decode—or read and understand—regularly spelled one- and two-syllable words, such as “wet” or “seven.”
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Apple Sight-Words
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should recognize and read common grade-appropriate sight-words and words with irregular spellings, such as “said,” “come” and “does.”
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Fun with Sight-Words
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will learn to spell frequently occurring irregular words, such as “know” and “could,” and learn to recognize and read them on sight.
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Search & Find Sight-Words
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to read common, high-frequency words by sight, such as “the,” “of,” “to” and “you.”
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Order the Words
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should be able to distinguish between shades of meaning among related words, such as “wondered,” “suspected,” “believed” and “knew.”
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Puzzling Words
3rd Grade
When entering third grade, your child should be able to use common spelling patterns to decode and spell words easily, such as “cart,” “chart” and “smart.”
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What’s the Word?
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should know how to correctly use words in sentences and should know many rules of English grammar, including parts of speech, regular and irregular plural nouns, regular and irregular verbs, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, sentence structure and more.
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Word Ladder
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to correctly use frequently confused words, such as “to” and “two” or “there” and “their.”
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Word Builder
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to spell simple words by sounding them out, such as “c-a-t” and “f-o-x.”
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Sight-Word Reader
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to read common, high-frequency words by sight, such as “the,” “of,” “to” and “you.”
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What’s the Word?
4th Grade
During fourth grade, your child will be asked to figure out the correct meanings of multiple-meaning words that appear in fourth-grade texts, such as knowing when the word “pitcher” refers to a container for pouring liquids or a person throwing a ball.
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Simple Word Puzzles
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to spell simple words by sounding them out, such as “c-a-t” and “f-o-x.”
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Sight-Word Bingo
Kindergarten
During kindergarten, your child will learn to read common, high-frequency words by sight, such as “the,” “of,” “to” and “you.”
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Word Challenge!
2nd Grade
During second grade, your child will learn to determine the meanings of grade-appropriate words based on the context in which they are used.
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Words & Numbers
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to compare and round multidigit numbers. Your child should also be able to read and write multidigit numbers in number, word and expanded form. For example, 765; seven hundred sixty-five; 700 + 60 + 5.
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Which Word?
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should be able to figure out the correct meanings of multiple-meaning words that appear in third-grade texts, such as knowing when the word “shower” refers to a rainstorm or a place to wash off.
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Complete the Word
Kindergarten
During kindergarten, your child will learn to identify the ending sounds in simple words and identify the letter that makes them, such as identifying the “n” sound in “pen.”
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Word Search
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should be able to figure out the correct meanings of multiple-meaning words that appear in third-grade texts, such as knowing when the word “shower” refers to a rainstorm or a place to wash off.
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Rocket Word Building
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to decode—or read and understand—regularly spelled one- and two-syllable words, such as “wet” or “seven.”
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Spin-A-Word
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should be able to figure out the meaning of a word when a prefix or suffix is added to a familiar root word, such as figuring out what the word “unhappy” means based on the knowledge that “un-” means “not.”
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Finish the Word, Finish the Sentence
3rd Grade
When entering third grade, your child should be able to figure out the meaning of a new word when a prefix or suffix is added to a familiar word, such as figuring out the meaning of “unhappy” based on knowledge of the word “happy.”
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Wild About Word Problems
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to solve word problems that involve adding and subtracting within 20. This includes solving problems with up to three numbers. For example, 5 + 7 + 3 = 15.
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Word Detective
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase by using clues in the text, such as definitions or examples.
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Decimal Word Problems
4th Grade
During fourth grade, your child will learn to write fractions with denominators of 10 or 100 as decimals, such as writing 3/10 as 0.3 and writing 34/100 as 0.34. Your child will also learn to add and subtract amounts of money using decimals.
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What’s My Word?
5th Grade
During fifth grade, your child will learn to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase by using clues in the text, such as cause/effect relationships and comparisons. For example, in the following sentence, you can determine that the word “chastened” means “punished” by looking at the cause and effect: “When Judy found out that her son had cheated, she chastened him by taking away his video games.”
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Prefix & Suffix Word Hunt
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes and roots to figure out the meaning of a word. For example, “telegraph,” “photograph” and “autograph” all contain the Greek root “graph,” which refers to something that is written or drawn.
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Make a Word
3rd Grade
During third grade, your child will learn to figure out the meaning of a new word when a prefix or suffix is added to a familiar word, such as figuring out the meaning of “preheat” based on the knowledge that “pre-” means “before.”
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Word Problem Match-Ups
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will be asked to solve word problems that involve adding and subtracting within 20.
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Away We Go!
Kindergarten
When entering kindergarten, your child should be able to listen to a story and ask and answer questions about key details, such as identifying characters and events and retelling the story in their own words. Your child should also understand the basic features of print, such as differentiating letters from words, recognizing that words have spaces between them and distinguishing the roles of authors and illustrators.
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Complete the Sentence
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to read words with inflectional endings and use them correctly in sentences. Inflectional endings are letters that are added to words, such as “-ing,” “-es,” or “-ed.” For example, your child should be able to read the words “wishing,” “wishes” and “wished” and use them correctly in sentences.
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Discovery Stars
Kindergarten
When entering kindergarten, your child should be able to listen to a story and ask and answer questions about key details, such as identifying characters and events and retelling the story in their own words. Your child should also understand the basic features of print, such as differentiating letters from words, recognizing that words have spaces between them and distinguishing the roles of authors and illustrators.
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Past, Present, Future
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to read words with inflectional endings and use them correctly in sentences. Inflectional endings are letters that are added to words, such as “-ing,” “-es,” or “-ed.” For example, your child should be able to read the words “wishing,” “wishes” and “wished” and use them correctly in sentences.
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Pronouns
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to correctly use pronouns, singular and plural words, and past-, present- and future-tense words in sentences.
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Sentence Meaning Match
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will learn to figure out the meanings of new words and multiple-meaning words based on the context in which they are used.
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Matching Multiple Meanings
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words and multiple-meanings words that they encounter in kindergarten-level texts.
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Pronoun Party
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will learn subtleties in words’ meanings and make real-life connections between words and their use, such as understanding that both a bed and sofa could be called cozy.
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Antonym Quest
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to understand words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms).
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What Am I?
3rd Grade
When entering third grade, your child should be able to decode—or read and understand—two-syllable words by applying word analysis skills and by sounding out words.
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Vowel Time
3rd Grade
When entering third grade, your child should be able to distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words, such as “mad” and “made,” and know how to spell words using common vowel teams, such as “ai,” “ea,” “ee,” “oa” and “oi.”
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Missing Vowel Sounds!
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should understand that final -e and common vowel teams can be used to make long vowel sounds. For example, your child can recognize that the “oa” and “o_e” teams in the words “coat” and “rope” contain long “o” sounds. Your child should also be able to spell words using these vowel teams.
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Antonyms Match
5th Grade
During fifth grade, your child will learn to use the relationship between synonyms (words with similar meanings) and antonyms (opposites) to better understand each of the words.
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Synonym Safari
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to understand words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms).
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Silent as a Mouse!
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should be able to decode and spell multisyllable words and grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
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Synonym & Antonym Crosswords
5th Grade
During fifth grade, your child will learn to use the relationship between synonyms (words with similar meanings) and antonyms (opposites) to better understand each of the words.
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Flip and Spell
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to build and spell simple words by blending sounds together. For example, when given the letters “a,” “e,” “c,” “b,” “d,” “g” and “s,” your child should be able to use the letters to build and read at least three words.
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To Be Determined!
3rd Grade
During third grade, your child will be expected to distinguish between shades of meaning among related words—such as “wondered,” “suspected,” “believed” and “knew”—and sort the words in order from the weakest to the strongest meaning.
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Different Meanings
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words and multiple-meanings words that they encounter in kindergarten-level texts.
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Past-Tense Verbs
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to correctly use pronouns, singular and plural words, and past-, present- and future-tense words in sentences.
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Magic Show
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should be able to decode and spell multisyllable words and grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
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At the Park
3rd Grade
When entering third grade, your child should be able to decode—or read and understand—two-syllable words by applying word analysis skills and by sounding out words.
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Long Vowel Challenge!
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should understand that final -e and common vowel teams can be used to make long vowel sounds. For example, your child can recognize that the “oa” and “o_e” teams in the words “coat” and “rope” contain long “o” sounds. Your child should also be able to spell words using these vowel teams.
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Tricky Phrase Blaster!
1st Grade
During first grade, your child will learn to figure out the meanings of new words and multiple-meaning words based on the context in which they are used.
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Find & Circle Adjectives
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to correctly use pronouns, singular and plural words, and past-, present- and future-tense words in sentences.
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Candy Factory
3rd Grade
When entering third grade, your child should be able to distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words, such as “mad” and “made,” and know how to spell words using common vowel teams, such as “ai,” “ea,” “ee,” “oa” and “oi.”
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Plural Noun Search
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to correctly use pronouns, singular and plural words, and past-, present- and future-tense words in sentences.
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Homophone Match
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to figure out the correct meanings of grade-appropriate homophones—words that sound the same but have different meaningss. For example, “to” and “two” or “eye” and “I.”
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Homophone Flapjacks
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to figure out the correct meanings of grade-appropriate homophones—words that sound the same but have different meaningss. For example, “to” and “two” or “eye” and “I.”
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Syllable Count
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to count and say the syllables in spoken words. For example, your child should understand that “kitten” has two syllables: kit•ten.
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Short Vowel Quilts
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to distinguish short vowels from long vowels in spoken one-syllable words, such as hearing the short “a” sound in “cap.”
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You’ve Got Mail
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to identify the beginning and ending sounds in simple words, such as identifying the “b” sound in “bat” or the “n” sound in “pen.”
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Where’s the Bear?
Kindergarten
When entering kindergarten, your child should be able to describe the positions of objects and shapes using positional words and phrases, such as “in front of,” “behind,” “over,” “under” and “next to.”
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What Do You Mean?
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to define words by category and key attributes. For example, “A duck is a bird that swims.”
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The Three Little Pigs
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to listen to a story and answer questions about key details, such as identifying characters and events and retelling the story in their own words. Your child should also be able to identify parts of a book—such as the front cover, back cover and title page—as well as the role of authors and illustrators.
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Where Am I?
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to correctly use positional words, such as “above” and “between.”
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Picture That
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should understand figurative language, such as idioms, and be able to distinguish between the literal and nonliteral meanings of words. For example, “It was a piece of cake!”
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Synonym Search
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to identify words with similar meanings and distinguish subtle differences between them. For example, “large” and “gigantic” are synonyms, but “gigantic” has a stronger meaning than “large.”
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What Comes Next?
1st Grade
When entering first grade, your child should be able to listen to a story and answer questions about key details, such as identifying characters and events and retelling the story in their own words. Your child should also be able to identify parts of a book—such as the front cover, back cover and title page—as well as the role of authors and illustrators.
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The Sun
5th Grade
When entering fifth grade, your child should be able to read, analyze and understand level-appropriate nonfiction reading passages, finding the main idea and important details, comprehending key words and phrases, comparing different accounts of the same event or topic and making inferences.
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Shades of Meaning Sort
2nd Grade
During second grade, your child will build vocabulary and learn to distinguish shades of meaning among closely related words, such as “toss,” “throw” and “hurl” or “thin,” “slender” and “skinny.”
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Movie Time
4th Grade
When entering fourth grade, your child should understand figurative language, such as idioms, and be able to distinguish between the literal and nonliteral meanings of words. For example, “It was a piece of cake!”
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Digraph Dive!
2nd Grade
When entering second grade, your child should be able to read and spell words with consonant blends, such as “st,” “sp” and “bl,” as well as common consonant digraphs, such as “th,” “ch” and “sh.”
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Reading Race
2nd Grade
During second grade, your child will learn the correct spellings for many common, irregularly spelled words.
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