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Week 33
Review A Word a Day
befuddle • chum • demonstrate • grateful
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 is another word for friend. (chum) • Megan and her enemy Molly promised
to be friends forever. (enemy/chum)
• This word describes someone who feels
thankful. (grateful) • These confusing directions make
everything clear to me.
• You do this when you show someone (make everything clear to/befuddle)
how to play a computer game.
(demonstrate) • Greg was angry that I helped him clean
his room. (angry/grateful)
• Confusing ideas do this to people.
(befuddle them)
4 Read each sentence and ask students to
decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
2 Read each sentence and ask students
is false, instruct students to explain why.
to supply the correct word to complete
the sentence. • You might want to share a secret with
a chum. (true)
• I’m so _____ to you for finding my lost
dog and returning her to me. (grateful) • People will be more willing to help you
if you are grateful. (true)
• Our guide will _____ how to paddle a
canoe. (demonstrate) • When something befuddles you,
you understand it perfectly. (false; it
• Read the clues carefully and the puzzle
will not _____ you. (befuddle) confuses you)
• When you demonstrate something, you
• My mom and her _____ see a movie
together each month. (chum) show others how to do it. (true)
Answers for page 135: 1. A, 2. G, 3. C, 4. H
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