Spelling List for Next Week

Name:__________________________      Date:___________________________
4th Grade Spelling Lesson 3 – Test on Friday, October 17, 2014
More words with silent letters! (Silent h, silent l, silent t/f, silent c)

1. hour
2. honor
3. ghost
4. herb
5. folk
6. yolk
7. chalk
8. stalk
9. calf
10. calves

11. half
12. halves
13. often
14. listen
15. fasten
16. glisten
17. scene
18. scent
19. science
20. scissors

Challenge:
rhyme, rhythm, rhinoceros, rhubarb, scythe








Spelling Routine:
Tuesday:
___Write each spelling word you missed five times correctly.
___Look up 2 words from your DEAR book in the dictionary – include part of speech.
___Look up 1 word from your DEAR book in the thesaurus. Write down the synonyms and antonyms, if any.
Wednesday:
___Write 8 sentences using at least 10 spelling words – including the ones you missed in the pre-test.
Thursday:
___Write a paragraph responding to the following question from Tuck Everlasting: Are the Tucks blessed or cursed? Use at least three examples to support your argument.
Friday:
___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.