Spelling
Each week you will study a new list of 20 core words plus 5 challenge words.
On Monday, you will be given a “pretest” on the words. If you get all of the
20 core words correct on the pretest, you are done with spelling for the
week. Also, if you get any of the challenge words correct, they are worth ½
point extra credit each, so it is possible that you could get a spelling test
score of 22.5/20!
If you do not get all of the 20 core words correct on the pretest, you will
be given extra practice during the week and then have the opportunity to take
the spelling test again on Friday. The extra practice comes in the form of
writing each misspelled word five times each and using the words to complete
a spelling packet.
Please do not feel that having to do the extra practice and take another test
is a punishment. It is not. I feel that if, on Monday, you can prove to me
that you have mastered the spelling of the words for the week, I am not going
to make you practice the words more. If you have not mastered the words on
the pretest given Monday, I want you to be successful at mastering every word
on Friday.
Also, we will chart our spelling test scores each week so you can see your
progress and set realistic spelling goals.
Here are your words for weeks 6-10:
Week 6 Words-Number the Stars
1. shoulder Challenge Words
2. Roman heroically
3. mental soldier
4. frighten medal
5. feather Holocaust
6. individual surrender
7. anger
8. original
9. German Vocabulary
10. dozen occupation
11. hunger disdainfully
12. musical belligerently
13. political soothingly
14. citizen exasperated
15. oxygen unwavering
16. quarter
17. manual
18. computer
19. terror
20. medical
Week 7 Words-The Summer of the Swans
1. there Challenge Words
2. their civilization
3. raise wilderness
4. aloud territory
5. hole vegetation
6. through permanent
7. sent
8. raze
9. threw Vocabulary
10. whole expanse
11. scent engulf
12. allowed compulsion
13. principal anguish
14. course waver
15. principle disbelief
16. coarse wailed
17. dual
18. flare
19. flair
20. duel
Week 8 Words-Old Yeller
1. watt Challenge Words
2. braille wedge
3. sandwich lever
4. tangerine pulley
5. saxophone axle
6. leotard friction
7. frankfurter
8. diesel
9. denim Vocabulary
10. mercury yarns
11. Fahrenheit charging
12. atlas romping
13. Celsius frantic
14. odyssey lunging
15. tuxedo pounced
16. limousine
17. china
18. attic
19. volt
20. cereal
Week 9 Words-Trapped by the Ice
1. effect Challenge Words
2. angel iceburg
3. desert summit
4. older polar
5. dessert Antarctica
6. adopt fossils
7. decent
8. affect
9. angle Vocabulary
10. elder perilous
11. descent dehydration
12. adapt bailed
13. broad grueling
14. device impassable
15. personal rancid
16. board
17. devise
18. access
19. personnel
20. excess
Week 10 Words-Flood: Wrestling the Mississippi
1. children’s Challenge Words
2. class’s volcanic
3. classes’ eruption
4. country’s tributary
5. countries’ humidity
6. sky’s forecast
7. skies
8. sun’s
9. safety’s Vocabulary
10. storms levees
11. city’s seeping
12. cities reservoirs
13. goose’s crested
14. oxen’s floodplain
15. people’s awed
16. strangers’ yearned
17. geese’s
18. armies’
19. allergies
20. mosquitoes
Handwriting-Each week we will practice the art of producing neatly-written
cursive.
Accelerated Reader-Language Arts students are required to be reading at
least 20 minutes each night at home. Each student will have the opportunity
to earn 5 extra credit points if they turn in reading chart signed by their
parents each month. Students are to be reading AR books and
their AR points must be met by Mid-May. Each student has been given a
specific AR point goal based on their reading level.
We are really excited about the two new reading incentive programs we have.
Every Thursday students listen to a passage from a particular book, and if
they guess the correct book, they may win a prize. Also on Fridays,
students can spend the AR points they have earned.
