| Working with Words |
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Weekly Lists |
| Each weekly list reflects the word structure skill we are studying in class. |
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Lesson 1: Root Word Plus Suffix |
Island of the Blue Dolphins:
1. joyous
2. useful
3. lonely
4. dangerous
5. hopeful
6. movement
7. playful
8. careless
9. freely
10. painful
11. helpless
12. statement
13. hazardous
14. gladly
15. marvelous
16. fearless
17. treatment
18. suddenly
19. shipment
20. harmless
Challenge Words
21. idly
22. adjustment
23. glamorous |
Lesson 2: Root Word Plus Prefix |
Two Tickets to Freedom:
1. replace
2. discount
3. review
4. unfold
5. midterm
6. rewind
7. unfair
8. midlife
9. displace
10. unite
11. renew
12. undone
13. disown
14. reheat
15. midnight
16. uncover
17. Midwest
18. disagree
19. midway
20. disappear
21. dissolve
22. rearrange
23. unfamiliar
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Lesson 3: Spelling Changes with Affixes |
Mrs. Frisby and the Crow:
1. angrily
2. location
3. promotion
4. famous
5. precision
6. basically
7. memorable
8. easily
9. conclusion
10. solvable
11. erosion
12. attention
13. decision
14. usable
15. courteous
16. envious
17. gracious
18. luckily
19. flammable
20. pollution
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Lesson 4: Inflectional Endings |
Langston Hughes: Poet of the People
1. pleading
2. building
3. painting
4. finished
5. worried
6. unplugged
7. opening
8. insisted
9. controlled
10. leaving
11. danced
12. shedding
13. rating
14. striped
15. stripped
16. fitting
17. ringing
18. setting
19. bleached
20. curved
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Lesson 5: Compound Words |
Daedalus & Icarus:
1. highway
2. flashlight
3. basketball
4. anyone
5. headline
6. sometimes
7. shellfish
8. doorbell
9. eyesight
10. handlebar
11. worldwide
12. outline
13. footprint
14. waterfall
15. brainstorm
16. nowhere
17. whenever
18. sunscreen
19. homework
20. coastline
21. motorcycle
22. toothache
23. wristwatch
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Lesson 6: Review Unit |
| In our language arts series, every 6th week is considered a review week. We will have no spelling words this week. |
Lesson 7: Greek Roots |
The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story
1. telephone
2. phonic
3. microphone
4. homophone
5. democracy
6. pandemic
7. demography
8. academy
9. pathos
10. pathetic
11. empathy
12. dermis
13. epidermis
14. dermatology
15. history
16. historian
17. historic
18. prehistoric
19. cardiac
20. cardiology
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Lesson 8: Latin Roots |
Energy Makes Things Happen
1. predict
2. dictate
3. diction
4. contradict
5. describe
6. subscribe
7. transcribe
8. scribble
9. report
10. import
11. export
12. support
13. infer
14. referral
15. transferred
16. defer
17. creates
18. creation
19. creative
20. creature
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Lesson 9: Synonyms |
Who Eats What?
1. spotted
2. spied
3. viewed
4. slightly
5. somewhat
6. branch
7. divide
8. split
9. alike
10. similar
11. home
12. dwelling
13. residence
14. partner
15. teammate
16. crash
17. collide
18. cheerful
19. happy
20. merry
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Lesson 10: Antonyms |
What Rot?
1. insult
2. compliment
3. silent
4. noisy
5. proud
6. ashamed
7. positive
8. negative
9. friend
10. enemy
11. predator
12. prey
13. build
14. destroy
15. divide
16. unite
17. inside
18. outside
19. comedy
20. tragedy |
List 11: Homographs |
The Great Kapok Tree
1. record
2. project
3. produce
4. minute
5. resent
6. wound
7. excuse
8. contest
9. close
10. present
11. object
12. extract
13. compress
14. resort
15. console
16. address
17. perfect
18. dove
19. upset
20. defect |
Lesson 12 |
| In our language arts series, every 6th week is considered a review week. We will have no spelling words this week. |
Lesson 13: Homophones |
The U.S. Constitution and You
1. hire
2. higher
3. through
4. threw
5. passed
6. past
7. writes
8. rights
9. frees
10. freeze
11. wood
12. would
13.piece
14. peace
15. flower
16. flour
17. chews
18. choose
19. break
20. brake |
List 14: Homonyms |
Benjamin Banneker
pitcher, spring, treat, swallow, bark, train, hamper, change, uniform, beat, vault, yard, light, stalk, splinter, second, stick, current, taxes, plain. |
Lesson 15: Comparatives |
Striking it Rich: The Story of the California Gold Rush
harder, cloudier, thinner, happier, wetter, cuter, simpler, deeper, bolder, nicer, calmer, nearer, dimmer, louder, earlier, truer, bigger, scarier, cheaper, freer |
List 16: Superlatives |
A Covered Wagon Girl
hottest, neatest, fullest, oldest, bravest, sweetest, brightest, fondest, clumsiest, dearest, sharpest, gentlest, smoothest, gloomiest, gladdest, narrowest, fittest, heaviest, noblest, fanciest |
Lesson 17: Contractions |
Abraham Lincoln
I’m, don’t, he’ll, weren’t, it’s, can’t, hasn’t, we’ll, we’re, she’s, we’d, o’clock, you’d, they’d, I’ll, won’t, isn’t , wasn’t, that’s, we’ve. |
List 19: Root word plus Suffix |
The Scientific Method
locality, oddity, humidity, finality, priceless, flavorless, needless, lifeless, actor, editor, collector, inspector, normal, digital, critical, national, briskly, jointly, properly, vividly. |
Lesson 20: Root Word Plus Prefixes |
Magnetism
deflate, demerit, declaw, derail, impure, immobile, imperfect, impolite, prefix, preview, preheat, preschool, costar, copilot, co-host, co-pay, enlarge, enclose, enrich, enforce |
Lesson 21: Spelling Changes with Affixes |
The Case of the Gasping Garbage
1. drizzly
2. crumbly
3. sensibly
4. terribly
5. activity
6. rarity
7. mobility
8. clarity
9. diversion
10. collision
11. tension
12. intrusion
13. argument
14. supplement
15. elevator
16. juror
17. senator
18. furious
19. nervous
20. cautious |
Lesson 22: Spelling Changes with Suffixes |
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
charted, shocked, jerked, bowling, cried, crying, married, amusing, tired, jogging, strummed, grinning, webbed, feeling, pleasing, dried, controlling, equipped, willing, daring. |
Lesson 23: More Compound Words |
How Fast Do You Eat Your Ice Cream?
everyone, sideways, laptop, playground, bathtub, swimsuit, mailbox, goldfish, upstairs, blueberry, heartbeat, teaspoon, popcorn, birthday, fireplace, keyboard, yearbook, rainbow, wheelchair, townhouse |
Lesson 24: Greek Roots |
The golden Spike
chronic, chronology, chronicle, biome, biology, bionic, biography, energy, energetic, hydrate, hydrogen, hydrant, thermal, thermometer, thermostat, monarch, architect, type, typical, prototype. Challenge Words: synchronize, antibiotic, stereotype |
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