Mondays: Choose the best list for you. Write one copy on your homework

planner to take home; write another copy on your own paper to turn in.

Tuesdays: Please choose one of these activities.

1. Write each word on your list 5 times very neatly.

2. Create a word-search grid or crossword puzzle using each of your words.

3. Create a spelling game like one of the examples on the spelling bulletin

board or on our class website. You may work on your game today and tomorrow

during word-work time.

Wednesdays: Please choose one of these activities. 1. Finish making the game you started yesterday. 2. Write a fake advertisement, a story, a poem, or a short play or skit using each of the words on your list. 3. Work with a partner to quiz each other then correct any errors. 4. Write each word on your list very neatly 6 times.

Thursdays: Please choose one of these activities. 1. Play the game you made on Tuesday and Wednesday and let your teacher

know. 2. Write each word using a different color and style for each letter of your

words this week. 3. Write each word on your list very neatly 7 times.

When you have a fat friend, there are no see-saws: there are only catapults.

Unless you’re on the same side, do not get on a teeter-totter, also known as a see-saw, with an elephant.

h_______

clench

drench

tempt

tenth

debt

head

read

bread

dead

spread

thief

grief

chief

yield

field

shield

fierce

fiend

seize

friend

biceps

bicycle

bifocals

bilingual

binoculars

bisect

biweekly

biannual

bimonthly

bisect

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Dictation:

h_____

My friend, who put

“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” on his

toast this morning, reports that his breakfast was “unbelievable.”

I would like to call the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” company’s lawyer and challenge him or her;

I would say “Guess what, Counselor? I CAN believe it’s not butter.”

j_______

buzz

fizz

jazz

frizz

quiz

quartz

waltz

quizzical

physical

whiz

cell

cellular

cease

cinch

cyst

cite

citation

cylinder

cycle

cinderblock

dizzy/dizziness

empty/emptiness

lazy/laziness

ready/readiness

fussy/fussiness

happy/happiness

ugly/ugliness

clumsy/clumsiness

lively/liveliness

crazy/craziness

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Dictation:

j_____

Brian’s fake plants

died because he forgot to pretend to water them.

Brianna’s artificial peonies expired because she forgot to pretend to water them.

k_______

use

cute

useful

cuteness

rude

rudeness

mule

tune

June

tube

fruit

suit

suitable

bruise

suite

cruise

juice

excuse

excusable

inexcusable

headlong

headdress

headache

headline

headphones

headquarters

headway

headstrong

blockhead

figurehead

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Dictation:

k_____

.

l_______

bathe

clothes

clothing

soothe

soothing

breathe

breathing

breath

teeth

teethe

teething

hey

hay

made

maid

male

mail

pale

pail

reed

read

board

bored

cash

cache

guest

guessed

sent

scent

cent

rye

wry

“I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it,” complained my sister’s friend.

“I’m against picketing,” complained my sister’s friend, adding “but I don’t know how to demonstrate my opposition.”

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Dictation:

l_____

.

z_______

new

knew

hear

here

hour

our

waist

waste

wheel

we’ll

bravo

father

drama

water

plaza

llama

squalor

squalid

latte

quaff

malice

maltreatment

maladjusted

malpractice

malnutrition

malcontent

malfunction

malady

maltreated

malign

Why is it rude to wave at people you don’t know? Well, what if they don’t have hands? Would they think you’re making fun of them?

Why shouldn’t you go around waving at people whom you don’t know? Well, what if they are unfortunately handless? Would they feel mocked?

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Dictation:

z_____

.

x_______

anything

somebody

beautiful

families

grandfather

January

libraries

Wednesday

amateur

cantaloupe

comedy

customer

engineer

evidence

forestry

generator

improvise

iodine

meteorite

proceed

propel

produce

procedure

production

progression

protective

profess

professor

professional

If a certain word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would anyone know it?

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

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Dictation:

x_____

.

c_______

varnish

darling

tarnish

hardly

scarlet

garlic

carpeting

pardon

marble

early

earlier

earliest

earned

earthworm

earnest

earthquake

research

yearn

learner

aerate

aerial

aerobic

aerodynamic

aeronautics

aeronautical

aerosol

aerospace

aeration

aerie

Groucho Marx, who was a famous comedian in the 1930s and 1940s, said “I never forget a face, but in your Case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

A comedian named Groucho Marx said “I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”

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Dictation:

c_____

.

v_______

justice

practice

service

office

officer

notice

novice

crevice

ice

arches

watches

coaches

couches

peaches

lunches

switches

churches

branches

benches

monarchy

anarchy

archangel

archbishop

archenemy

archetype

architect

hierarchy

patriarch

matriarch

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; rather, I am a vegetarian because I hate plants,” explains A. Whitney Brown.

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Dictation:

v_____

Elementary school Middle school Nutty professor

Easier Dictation

Harder Dictation.

Q_______

voyage

bandage

village

message

cottage

wreckage

luggage

garbage

hostage

shortage

city

cider

civil

civilian

circular

circumference

cedar

celery

certain

certainty

asterisk

asteroid

astrology

astronomy

astronaut

astronomical

astrophysics

disaster

astrological

disastrous

“I was the kid next door's imaginary friend,” explained the new student.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

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Dictation:

_____ Q_______

Elementary school Middle school Nutty professor

Easier Dictation

Harder Dictation.

w_______

ceiling

cellar

certain

cycle

census

center

cereal

cement

center

cedar

gadget

gallon

gallop

gamble

gambol

golden

gossip

guilty

gorilla

guitar

biology

biography

autobiography

biopsy

symbiosis

symbiotic

antibiotic

biodegradable

amphibious

biochemistry

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of canned ravioli?

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Dictation:

_____ w_______

Elementary school Middle school Nutty professor

Easier Dictation

Harder Dictation.

E_______

antique

unique

clique

opaque

critique

physique

mystique

boutique

brusque

conquer

succeed

indeed

agree

between

proceed

procedure

degree

asleep

tweezers

fifteen

centrifugal

centripetal

center

eccentric

concentrate

centrifuge

concentric

ethnocentric

egocentric

central

Life is like a camera: focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and, if it goes wrong, take another shot.

Love is like a staircase: it has its ups and downs, sometimes it twists and turns, but, in the end, it brings us where we were supposed to go.

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Dictation:

_____ E_______

Elementary school Middle school Nutty professor

Easier Dictation

Harder Dictation.

U_______

saucer

author

August

autumn

laundry

auction

daughter

haunted

nausea

nauseous

rice

face

place

brace

slice

peace

force

chance

percentage

niece

chronic

chronology

chronological

chronicle

anachronism

cosmic

cosmology

cosmopolitan

microcosm

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving was not for you!

Children: you spend the first two years of their lives teaching them to walk and talk; then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and be quiet.

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Dictation:

_____ U_______