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It’s spelling bee time! To help you prepare or just make you smarter,we’re offering 10 weeks of words and an activity using the newspaper.

Search for other words with the “ly” suffix in the newspaper. Create sentences using the words you find.

See you at The Bee, Saturday, March 31!

1. lukewarmly (adv.) slightly warm;notenthusiastic.

2. manually (adv.) doingorinvolvinghardphysicalwork,oftenwiththehands.

3. jealously (adv.) feeling or show-inganunhappyorangrydesiretohavewhatsomeoneelsehas.

4. mortally (adv.) verygreatorsevere;possiblycausingdeath.

5. tediously (adv.) boring and toosloworlong.

6. youthfully (adv.) havingor show-ing the freshness or energy ofsomeonewhoisyoung.

7. flamboyantly (adv.) havingaverynoticeablequalitythatattractsalotofattention.

8. harmfully (adv.) causingorcapableofcausingdamageorharm.

9. laggardly (adv.) a person or thingthatdoesnotgoormoveasquicklyasothers

10. soberingly (adv.) makeorbecomemoreserious,sensible,andsolemn.

Sources:www.learnersdictionary.com,www.merriam-webster.com

Missouri Grade Level Expectations: R1C,R1E,W2E

Words of the Week


These spelling bee words all have the same pattern. Locate other words in your newspaper that belong in the same category.


1. abstention (noun) theactofchoos-ingnottodoorhavesomething.

2. abstraction (noun) the act of ob-taining or removing somethingfromasource.

3. discoloration (noun) the act ofchangingcolorinabadway.

4. locomotion (noun) theactorpowerofmovingfromplacetoplace.

5. migration (noun) tomovefromoneplacetoanother.

6. satisfaction (noun) a happy orpleased feeling because of some-thing that you did or somethingthathappenedtoyou.

7. vocation (noun) a strong desireto spendyour lifedoinga certainkind of work (such as religiouswork).

8. deduction (noun) the act of tak-ing away something (such as anamountofmoney)fromatotal.

9. perspiration (noun) theclearliquidthatformsonyourskinwhenyouarehotornervous.

10. distortion (noun) to change thenatural,normal,ororiginalshape,appearance, or sound of (some-thing)inawaythatisusuallynotattractiveorpleasing.



Words of the Week


Write headlines that you might see in the Sports section using this week’s spelling bee words.


1. imponderable (adj)notable tobemeasuredorjudgedexactly

2. indescribable (adj) impossible todescribe:verygreatorextreme

3. justiciable (adj) capable of beingdecidedbyacourtofjustice

4. licensable (adj) able to give per-missionorconsentto:license

5. trainable (adj) capable of beingtrained:teachable

6. inaudible (adj)impossibletohear:notaudible

7. indefensible (adj) not defensible:suchasa:notabletobethoughtofasgoodoracceptable

8. sensible (adj) having or showinggoodsenseorjudgment

9. abominable (adj)verybadorun-pleasant

10. permissible (adj) allowed or per-mittedbylawsorrules



Words of the Week


Words of the Week

These spelling bee words all have a similar double consonant pattern. Locate other words in your newspaper that belong in the same category.


1. noontide (noun) noontime: the cul-minating point

2. kerchoo (interjection) used to repre-sent the sound of a person sneez-ing

3. gooey (adj) wet and sticky

4. gloomy (adj) somewhat dark: sad or depressed

5. coot (noun) aquatic bird: a foolish or crotchety person, especially one who is old.

6. oolong (noun) a brown or amber tea grown in China and Taiwan and partially fermented before be-ing dried.

7. snoopery (noun) prying or med-dling into the affairs of others

8. baboon (noun) a large African or Asian monkey

9. bandicoot (noun) large rats: marsu-pial mammals that eat plants and insects

10. doodling (verb) to draw or scribble idly

Sources: www.learnersdictionary.com, www.merriam-webster.com, www.dictionary.comMissouri Grade Level Expectations: R1C, R1E, W2E


Words of the Week

See how many of these words you can find in the Classifieds section of the newspaper. Add to this list other words from the newspaper that describe occupations.


1. playwright (noun) a person who writes plays

2. architect (noun) a person who designs buildings or guides a plan or project

3. cashier (noun) a person whose job is to take in or give out money in a store, bank, etc.

4. newscaster (noun) a person who re-ports and sometimes discusses the news on radio or television

5. plumber (noun) a person whose job is to install or repair sinks, toilets, water pipes, etc.

6. ecologist (noun) a person who stud-ies the science that deals with the re-lationships between groups of living things and their environments

7. tailor (noun) a person who makes clothes (such as suits and jackets) that are measured to fit a particular person

8. waiter (noun) a man who serves food or drinks to people in a restaurant

9. pilot (noun) a person who flies an air-plane or helicopter, or who steers or guides a ship into and out of a port or in dangerous waters

10. cabdriver (noun) a person who drives a taxi

Sources: www.learnersdictionary.com, www.merriam-webster.comMissouri Grade Level Expectations: R1C, R1E, W2E


Words of the Week

These words all end in the “ous” suffix. Find 10 words with the same pattern in the newspaper. Rewrite all 20 words without their suffixes.


1. subconscious (adjective) existing in the part of the mind that a person is not aware of : existing in the mind but not consciously known or felt

2. righteous (adjective) morally good: following religious or moral laws

3. scandalous (adjective) shocking or of-fensive

4. poisonous (adjective) causing sickness or death by entering or touching the body: containing poison

5. ponderous (adjective) very boring or dull: slow or awkward because of weight and size

6. outrageous (adjective) very bad or wrong in a way that causes anger: too bad to be accepted or allowed: very strange or unusual: surprising or shocking

7. rigorous (adjective) very strict and demanding: done carefully and with a lot of attention to detail: difficult to endure because of extreme conditions

8. factitious (adjective) produced by hu-mans rather than by natural forces

9. obvious (adjective) easy to see or no-tice

10. velocious (adjective) speedy



Words of the Week

Draw a picture of a tree on a large sheet of paper. Look through the newspaper and find math words and geometric shapes. Label the shapes

and glue them all to create a “Geometree.”


1. quadrangle (noun) flat shape that has four sides and four angles

2. fraction (noun) a number (such as 1⁄2 or 3⁄4) which indicates that one num-ber is being divided by another

3. division (noun) the act or process of dividing something into parts: the way that something is divided

4. coordinate (noun) one of a set of num-bers that is used to locate a point on a map, graph, etc.

5. denominator (noun) the number in a fraction that is below the line and that divides the number above the line

6. symmetry (noun) the quality of some-

thing that has two sides or halves that are the same or very close in size, shape, and position: the quality of having symmetrical parts

7. parallelogram (noun) a four-sided shape made up of two pairs of straight parallel lines that are equal in length

8. addition (noun) the act or process of joining something to something else: the act or process of adding something

9. pictograph (noun) a diagram repre-senting statistic data with pictures

10. equivalent (noun) something that has the same value, use, meaning, etc., as another thing



Words of the Week

Look through the newspaper for other animal words and pictures. Cut them out and classify them, along with

these words, according to their class.


1. vulture (noun) any one of several large birds that eat dead animals and have a small and featherless head

2. ostrich (noun) a very large African bird that runs very fast but cannot fly

3. macaw (noun) a bird of South and Central America that has a long tail and bright colorful feathers

4. caterpillar (noun) a small creature that is like a worm with many legs and that changes to become a butter-fly or moth

5. jellyfish (noun) a sea animal that has a very soft body and that can sting

6. weasel (noun) a small animal that has a thin body and brown fur and that eats small birds and other animals

7. lynx (noun) a large wild cat of North America

8. dragonfly (noun) a large insect that has a long thin body and four wings and that is often seen near water

9. osprey (noun) a large bird that eats fish

10. salmon (noun) a large fish that is born in streams but that lives most of its life in the ocean and that is com-monly used for food



Words of the Week

These spelling words all have a common pattern. Can you find it? On the front page of your newspaper, use a red pen to circle all the

words with the same pattern. Race a classmate in this search.


1. eaglet (noun) a young eagle

2. concealment (noun) to hide or keep secret

3. demeanor (noun) a person’s ap-pearance and behavior

4. gleanings (noun) information, grain, etc., that is gathered

5. keepsake (noun) something that you keep to help you remember a person, place, or event: a memento or souvenir

6. referee (noun) a person who makes sure that players act according to the rules of a game or sport

7. upbeat (adjective) positive and cheerful: happy and hopeful

8. feebly (adverb) very weak

9. weevil (noun) a small insect that eats grains and seeds and that can ruin crops

10. racketeer (noun) a person who makes money through illegal ac-tivities



Words of the Week

These spelling bee words are compound words. Identify the two words and then locate 10 more

compound words in the newspaper.


1. backspace (noun) a key that is pressed on a typewriter or computer keyboard to move back toward the beginning of a line of text

2. barnyard (noun) an area of ground near a barn that usually has a fence around it

3. cakewalk (noun) an easy contest to win

4. groundhog (noun) a small, furry North American animal that lives in the ground

5. heartburn (noun) an unpleasant hot feeling in your chest caused by

something that you ate

6. nutcracker (noun) a tool or device that is used to open the shells of nuts

7. seaweed (noun) type of plant that grows in the sea

8. tightrope (noun) a tightly stretched rope or wire high above the ground that a performer walks on, does tricks on, etc., especially in a circus

9. peacetime (noun) a period of time during which a country is not fight-ing a war

10. elbowroom (noun) room enough to work in


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