3rd Quarter Study Guide: Language and Spelling

Third Quarter Study Guide for Language and Spelling

*Please review the following spelling words:

·        beware

·        damage

·        bend

·        flash

·        pounding

·        prevent

·        reach

·        equal

·        tunnel

·        curled

·        height

·        toward

·        brag

·        direction

·        healed

·        tease

·        squirrel

·        weather

·        changes

·        temperature

·        sunny

·        rainy

·        cloudy

·        snowy

·        windy

·        crystal

·        cumulus

·        cirrus

·        stratus

• cumulonimbus
• precipitation
• condenses
• water cycle
• evaporate
• culture
• religion
• ancestor
• custom
• heritage
• tradition
• people
• recreation
• Inuit
• unique
• different
• point of view
• explorer
• pioneer
• immigrant
• route
• person
• fractions
• whole
• unit
• half
• halves
• third
• fourth
• fifth
• sixth
• seventh
• eighth
• ninth
• tenth
• eleventh
• twelfth
• twentieth
• thirtieth
• fortieth
• understand
• impatient
• impossible
• believe
• problem
• gathered
• demand
• furious
• exchange
• shake
• smooth
• hours
• alone
• real
• museum
• nursery
• whenever
• kindergarten

*Please review the workbook Workbook Plus (pg. 50-78).

Be able to:

-complete a problem and solution chart for a given character and setting

-complete a web to list details about a character

-complete a story map for a well-known story

-add adverbs to sentences to describe actions

-choose present-tense verbs that agree with their subjects

-identify correct pronouns and verbs

-correct errors in pronouns and verbs

-form the past tense of regular and irregular verbs

-join action parts to combine sentences

-use the present perfect correctly (have/has run, have has come, have/has seen, have/has gone, have/has did, have/has given)

-use is and are correctly

-use was and were correctly

-form contractions for the do, be and can verbs

-write in cursive