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Week 26
Review A Word a Day

vehicle • horrible • peer • wealthy

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 four words to tell which word or words are wrong.
for the week. They are to find the word Then have them provide the correct word
that answers the clue. from the week’s list.

• A spaceship is one of these. (a vehicle) • I had such a wonderful toothache that
I had to see my dentist right away.
• This word means the opposite of (wonderful/horrible)
(
very poor. (wealthy)
y
y
(
• We yelled into the thick fog, trying to
• You might do this if you were trying to see the road ahead. (yelled/peered)
t
read tiny handwriting. (peer at it)
• The Smiths are poor enough to give
• You could use this word to describe thousands of dollars to homeless people.
a very bad odor. (horrible)
y
y
(poor/wealthy)
2 Read each sentence and ask students • A sled is a warm coat for traveling across
(
(
to supply the correct word to complete the snow. (warm coat/vehicle)
the sentence.
4 Read each sentence and ask students to
• Some people gave money to build a
computer lab for our school. (wealthy) decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
y
y
is false, instruct students to explain why.
• Jenny woke up crying because she had a
nightmare about sharks with feet. • Horrible news makes you smile. (false;
(horrible) very bad news would not make you
smile)
• Gramps uses a magnifying glass to
at the map. (peer) • Some vehicles travel on land, and some
vehicles fly through the air. (true)
• That large carries trash to the
recycling center. (vehicle) • Most people peer at large signs that
are easy to read. (false; people peer at
d
things that are hard to see)
y
• The word wealthy means very rich. (true)

Answers for page 107: 1. B, 2. H, 3. D, 4. G

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