Spelling List Week of April 1

Name:__________________________      Date:___________________________

Spelling Lesson 10– Test on Friday, April 4, 2014

Short Vowels:  a, i, o, u

1.     instead

2.     trouble

3.     young

4.     January

5.     blanket

6.     backpack

7.     figure

8.     closet

9.     caught

10.  cot

11.  cloth

12.  clothes

13.  cousin

14.  couple

15.  tough

16.  rough

17.  enough

18.  won’t

19.  didn’t

20.  couldn’t

Challenge: (We will discuss the meanings of these words this week.)

21.  temporary

22.  permanent

23.  recreation

24.  adjacent

25.  indifferent

Spelling Routine:

Monday:

___Write each spelling word you missed five times correctly.

___Look up the 5 challenge words in the dictionary – include part of speech.

Tuesday:

___Write 8 sentences using 8 spelling words – including the ones you missed in the pre-test.

Wednesday:

___Finish your Savvy paragraph essay.

Thursday:

___Study for test on Friday morning. Good Luck! 

WRITING CHECKLIST:

___Each sentence begins with a capital letter.

___Each sentence ends with the appropriate punctuation mark (period, question mark, exclamation point).

___I checked all punctuation marks – apostrophes, commas, colons, semicolons.

___I indented the first line of my paragraph/story.

___I proofread for simple spelling mistakes (esp. your, you’re, to, too, two, it’s, its, there, their, they’re).

___My writing makes sense and says what I want it to say.

___MY WRITING IS NEAT AND LEGIBLE.