Word Study Through Shared Reading

Book: Fuzzy Buzzy Bee

Author: Maribeth Boelts
Illustrated by: Holly Clifton-Brown
Level: 1 Grades K-1
Brief Summary: The young boy in the story follows the fuzzy buzzy bee around from flower to flower and then
back to the honeycomb. At the honeycomb is where the bee makes honey, the young boy thinks the honey
looks delicious so he deicides to go home and have some bread and honey for himself.

Opportunities to engage in word study through shared reading:

Type of Word Study Focus More Specific Focus Example Words

Word selected from the Dolch sight
word list or the Fry high frequency Are
word list. Over
Sight Words
https://www.kidzone.ws/reading/fry/ Will
Pg. 152-153
https://sightwords.com/sight- Ride
words/dolch/ From

Phonics Rules
CVC Pattern Zip, Zoom, For, Sun, Fun
Pg. 113-120

Phonograms
(word families or -ing Making, Sharing, Growing,
“glued sounds”) -ick Trick, Stick
Pg. 112-113, 155-157
Structural Analysis-
Type of Affix
Suffix -y, -er Busy, Fly, Fuzzy/ Flower, Power
(prefix , suffix or inflectional
Syllabication Buz/zy, Nec/tar, Hon/ey
ending), Morphemes,
Inflectional endings Making, Make
syllabication, contractions
Pg. 157-158

Vocabulary Tier 2 Awesome, Blossom, Fuzzy, Busy

Chapter 7 Tier 3 Honeycomb, Nectar, Clover, Pollen