Spelling City
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Week 1
1. rolled
2. fingers 3. except 4. speed 5. couldn't 6. questions 7. catch 8. itself 9. mark 10.button |
11. bargain
12.certain 13. orphan 14. fountain 15. oxen 16. latitude 17. longitude 18.compass 19. absolute 20. equator 21.compensation |
1. Lines of latitude and longitude help us find the absolute location of places.
2. The questions rolled off the orphan's tongue with amazing speed.
2. The questions rolled off the orphan's tongue with amazing speed.
Week 2
Sight words, schwa n, and
academic vocabulary
1. yourself
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11.colon
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Dictation:
1.The children would rather see the penguins.
2.Please complete the problems on the test by yourself.
Week 3 Sight words, schwa n, and academic vocabulary
1. usually
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11.muffin
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Dictation- write each sentence every day for bellwork and homework
1. Her friends didn’t usually get upset, but she heard they were mad.
2. He heard the villain order a pumpkin muffin.
Week 4Sight words, al/il, and
academic vocabulary
1.twelve
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11.bridal
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Dictation- write each sentence every day for bellwork and homework
1.The climate in this part of the hemisphere is best during the spring.
2.The ship made it all the way across the bay with the postal delivery.
Week 5
Sight words, al/il, and academic vocabulary
1. hours
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11.vocal
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Dictation- write each sentence every day for bellwork and homework
1. It took 24 hours for her to retain the lyrics from the song's vocals.
2.Abundant nutrients can help children thrive.
Week 6
Sight words, ile/il, and
academic vocabulary
1.thirty
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11.fragile
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Dictation- write each sentence every day for bellwork and homework
1.The evil reptile was destroyed on the mountain.
2.We depend on the many natural resources that are in danger of being destroyed.
Week 7
Sight words, al/el, and
academic vocabulary
1. byte
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11.fatal
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1.Please put the keyboard and monitor against the wall.
2. He left the pastel colored towel in the chapel.
Week 8
Sight words, le pattern, and
academic vocabulary
1.vegetable
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11.ankle
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1.The girl who worked on the farm had freckles on her knuckles and a dimple on her chin.
2. Camouflage helps animals escape predators in the jungle.
1.thirteen
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11.capture
12.culture 13.creature 14.fixture 15.fracture 16.species 17.agriculture 18.architecture 19.view 20.density 21.algorithm |
1. His demand to see the signature was met with relief when they matched.
2. I would appoint thirteen people to discuss the structure and architecture of the building.
Week 10
Sight words, cher pattern,
and academic vocabulary
1.fourteen
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11.bleacher
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1. An estimation is a reasonable approximate instead of an exact answer.
2. It was my job to determine whether a rural or urban area would be a better place to
live.
Week 11
Sight words, sher pattern,
and academic vocabulary
1.forty
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11.fresher
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1.The competition was balanced but I was glad when it was finally over.
2.Endangered animals are at risk for extinction if we don’t protect them.
Week 12
Sight words, ure pattern,
and academic vocabulary
1. slide
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11.lecture
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1. An animal can be an herbivore, a carnivore, or an omnivore, depending on what it eats.
2. My day became an adventure with a mixture of swings and slides.
Week 13
Sight words, ure pattern,
and academic vocabulary
1.fifteen
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11.stretcher
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1.An algebraic expression sometimes uses parentheses.
2.The pioneer decided to migrate west, taking a place at the front of the wagon train.
Week 14
Sight words, ure pattern,
and academic vocabulary
1. building
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11.leisure
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1.Scientists carefully checked the volcano to evaluate possible ruptures.
2.An erratic is a large boulder, but a moraine is ridge made of many pieces of rock.
Week 15
Sight words, et pattern, and
academic vocabulary
1. sixteen
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11.banquet
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1. Less than a week ago, we had a banquet on an island.
2. He stood next to the machine and showed us how the gadget works.
Week 16
Sight words, it pattern, and
academic vocabulary
1. sixty
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11.audit
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1. My dad told me a story about a monkey, an alligator, and a kangaroo.
2. I have a habit of being a hermit when things are stressful.
Week 17
Sight words, age pattern,
and academic vocabulary
1. seventeen
|
|
11.bandage
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1.A university is the highest level of school from which you can earn a degree.
2. I can explain why I used my luggage as storage.
Week 18 Sight words, edge/idge patterns, and academic
2.rhombus 3. equation 4. average 5. government 6. filled 7. pledge 8. bridge 9.ridge 10.wedge |
11.ledge
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1. The government is in charge of public education, but not private education.
2. Better knowledge about navigation allowed explorers to circumnavigate the world.
Week 19 Sight words, long o words, and academic vocabulary
1.object
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11.compose
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1. When boomtowns sprang up over night, many entrepreneurs thrived.
2. Because they wanted to be free, the fugitives ran north to escape slavery.
Week 20 -Sight words, long o words, and academic vocabulary
1. solo
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11.lower
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1. Electricity has made it easy for new technology to develop.
2. A conductor is a material that allows electricity to flow through it.
Week 21
Sight words, short o words,
and academic vocabulary
1.positive
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11.adopt
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1. If you transport something in from another country, it is called an import.
2.Perhaps congress will adopt the bill so that a fee will not be charged for exports.
Week 22
Sight words, short u words, and academic vocabulary
1.hotel
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11.bubble
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1.The use of aqueducts in the drought area allowed the crops to grow.
2.The Great Depression begain when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Week 23
Sight words, long u words,
and academic vocabulary
1.region
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11.abuse
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1.We did not know if his return was permanent or temporary.
2.The members of the club did not believe the rumor about the actor.
Week 24
Sight words, r-controlled vowels,
and academic vocabulary
1. eighty
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11.alarm
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1.You can plot coordinates on a four quadrant graph using ordered pairs of numbers.
2.Even though the sheriff was eighty, he still got his exercise at the rodeo.
Week 25
Sight words, r-controlled
vowels, and academic
vocabulary
1. window
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11.parsley
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1. My heart stopped when I saw the curtain burning.
2. It was probably parsley that made the difference in how the sauce tasted.
Week 26 Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and academic vocabulary
1.ninety
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11.berry
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1.One responsibility of citizenship is to vote in every election.
2. The reason I kept an interest in moving forward was to prove my idea had merit.
Week 27
Sight words, r-controlled
vowels, and academic
vocabulary
1. nineteen
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11.sermon
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1. It was beautiful to see my cousin score nineteen goals in the game.
2.The guilty verdict painted a bleary portrait for the once charming man.
Sight words,r-controlled vowels, and academic vocabulary
1.principal
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11.clearing
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1.The principal finished his speech with a sincere apology.
2.When he discovered the sword in the clearing he was overcome with concern.
Week 29
Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and academic vocabulary
1. kitchen
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11.burden
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1.Our government has three branches: legislative, judicial, and executive.
2.There are many instruments that help us predict storms on the shoreline.
Week 30 Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and academic vocabulary
1.represent
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11.mature
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