Fourth Quarter Study Guide: Language and Spelling

Fourth Quarter Study Guide for Language and Spelling

*Please review the following spelling words:

culture

community

languages

transportation

subjects

lessons

special

wear

school

world

pledge

climate

resources

uniform

schoolwork

chores

blind

performer

difference

estimate

regroup

round

subtract

subtraction

calculator

mental math

operation

compare

whole

tens and ones

reasoning

equation

vertical

horizontal

column

multistep

solve

homeless

darkness

loudest

movement

lovely

brighten

neatness

careful

laughing

patches

spoonful

useful

washable

connection

chased

baker

practices

cutest

hottest

matter

mass

property

color

shape

size

texture

solid

gas

liquid

volume

water vapor

freezing

evaporation

condensation

melting

shrink

expand

container

landmark

colony

artifact

settler

history

season

ancient

modern

time line

settlement

source

Hopi

predict

museum

cause

effect

independence

freedom

region

knowledge

curious

motion

silence

illness

imitated

darkness

behavior

blind

deaf

obeys

safety

attention

buddy

station

speech

shocked

enormous

laughed

cent

sign

dollar

decimal point

dime

nickel

penny

half-dollar

quarter

value

equal

amount

U.S. Mint

total

buy

bought

sell

sold

coins

bills

*Please review the workbook Workbook Plus units 6-9 (pg. 79-120: “Writing Instructions,” “Adjectives,” “Writing a Description,” and “More Capitalization and Punctuation”).

Be able to:

-Write correct order words.

-Use exact verbs.

-Identify and use adjectives that describe size, shape, color, and number.

-Identify and use adjectives that describe taste and smell.

-Identify and use adjectives that describe sound and touch.

-Expand sentences by adding adjectives.

-Use a and an correctly.

-Use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.

-Combine sentences by jointing adjectives with and.

-Revise sentences by choosing antonyms.

-Write similes.

-Proofread a story looking for mistakes with capitalization and punctuation.

-Write book titles correctly.

-Identify and correct run-on sentences.