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Week 27
Review A Word a Day

yelp • swift • cluster • gnaw

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.

• This word describes a fast-moving • The slow rabbit escaped from a fox.
jet plane. (swift) (slow/swift)

h
• This is another word for bunch or group. • I could hear Jessie laugh when she
(cluster) stubbed her toe on a rock.
(laugh/yelp)
• Dogs do this to bones. (gnaw on them)
• A rat can use its sharp teeth to lick a
• You might do this if someone pinched rope in half. (lick/gnaw)
(
(
you. (yelp)
• Penguins form a single line to keep
2 Read each sentence and ask students warm. (single line/cluster)
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
• The bride carried a of purple and
white flowers. (cluster) is false, instruct students to explain why.

• You make a sharp, crying sound when
• Marty heard his dog when it was
stung by a bee. (yelp) you yelp. (true)

• A hamster might gnaw on a carrot.
• The mouse did not see the owl as it
swooped down from the sky. (swift) (true)
• One grape is the same as a cluster.
• It’s bad for your teeth to on a
w
pencil. (gnaw) (false; a cluster is a group of things)
• Snails and turtles are swift animals.
(false; they aren’t fast-moving animals)

Answers for page 111: 1. B, 2. F, 3. C, 4. H

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