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Week 30
Review A Word a Day

dwelling • bustle • react • merry

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 is wrong. Then have
for the week. They are to find the word them provide the correct word from
that answers the clue. the week’s list.

• This is another word for house. • “Joy” is a good name for my friend
y
(dwelling) because she is always sad. (sad/merry)
y
g
g
• You might feel this way on holidays. • Marta moved to a new cave in the city.
(merry) (cave/dwelling)
t
• This is another word for respond. (react) • We really had to creep about to get
d
d
everything ready for the party.
• People who are trying to get a lot done (creep/bustle)
do this. (bustle)

4 Read each sentence and ask students to
2 Read each sentence and ask students
to supply the correct word to complete decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
the sentence. is false, instruct students to explain why.
• You hurry when you bustle. (true)
• On the day before a trip, Mom and Dad
around, packing and loading • A merry person is jolly. (true)
the car. (bustle)
• One way to react to good news is to
• My grandma will with a smile shout “Hooray!” (true)
when I give her these flowers. (react)
• Everyone in the world lives in the same
• Sarah’s is an apartment in a tall kind of dwelling. (false; people live in
building in New York City. (dwelling) different kinds of homes)

• I can hear laughter from the room
next door. (merry)
y
y

Answers for page 123: 1. D, 2. G, 3. B, 4. H

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