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This Week's Spelling

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HEAT WAVE- Test on Friday

dancing
skipped
hiking
flipped
snapping
raced
landed
pleasing
checking
dared
dimmed
rubbing
striped
wasting
traced
stripped
tanning
smelling
phoning
fainted
breathing
tiring
urged
scrubbed
striving

VOCABULARY FOR THE YEAR
                                                            

1.  plot – actions or events of a story

2.  setting – time and place of an event in a story

3.  resolution – the point in the story when the problem is solved

4.  predict – to figure out things before they happen

5.  prefix – the part of the word that comes before the root word

6.  suffix – the part of the word that comes at the end of the 
root               word

7.  factors – the numbers that are multiplied to give a product

8.  product – the answer to a multiplication problem

   9. infer – to come to a conclusion based on facts

  10. draft – writing all the writer’s ideas on paper

  11. prewriting – planning a writing project

  12. editing – checking for spelling, grammar, and mechanics   errors

  13. revising – making changes to improve the draft

  14. quotation – the exact words of the speaker

  15. homophone – when one of two or more words is pronounced the same but 
are different in meaning or spelling

  16. mode – the number that occurs most often in a collection of data

  17. median – the middle number in a set of numbers arranged in numerical 
order

  18. range – subtract the smallest and largest numbers in a set

  19. data – facts or information from which conclusions can be drawn

  20. dividend – a number to be divided

  21. tessellation – an arrangement of shapes that covers an area without any 
gaps or overlaps

  22. denominator – the bottom number of a fraction

  23. numerator – the top number of a fraction

  24. divisor – the number by which the dividend is divided

  25. area -  the number of square units needed to cover a region or figure

  26. perimeter – the distance around an object

  27. quotient – the answer to a division problem

  28. remainder – the leftover pieces in a division problem that can not be 
divided equally

  29. simile – a comparison between unlike nouns using like or as to make the 
comparison

  30. metaphor – an implied comparison between two different things

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