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Week 24
Review A Word a Day
sample • dazzle • fl utter • sensible
Write on the board the four words studied this week. Read the words with the class and
briefly review their meanings. Then conduct the oral activities below.
1 Tell students that you are going to give 3 Read each sentence and ask students
them a clue about one of the words for to tell which word is wrong. Then have
the week. They are to find the word that them provide the correct word from
answers the clue. the week’s list.
• This is another word for amaze. (dazzle) • Calling your mom to say that you will be
late is a silly thing to do. (silly/sensible)
• A bug’s wings do this. (flutter)
• A hummingbird flattens its wings as it
• This is a small taste of food. (a sample)
searches for food. (flattens/flutters)
• This word describes a person who makes • The juggler says he will bore us by
wise choices. (sensible)
juggling ten different vegetables at once.
(bore/dazzle)
2 Read each sentence and ask students
to supply the correct word to complete
the sentence. 4 Read each sentence and ask students to
decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
• It is to stay home in bed and rest is false, instruct students to explain why.
when you are sick. (sensible)
• A sample is a small piece or amount.
• Maddy blinked quickly, making her (true)
eyelashes . (flutter)
• Skateboarders might dazzle you with the
• The magician promised to the tricks they do. (true)
audience by making an elephant
disappear. (dazzle) • On a snowy day, it would be sensible
to wear a bathing suit outdoors. (false;
• The doctor will take a of my blood it is not wise to wear a bathing suit
to make sure that I’m healthy. (sample) outdoors in the snow)
• You can flutter your arms the way a bird
flutters its wings. (true)
Answers for page 99: 1. D, 2. H, 3. A, 4. G
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