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Week 5
Review A Word a Day

hero • dull • create • fi rm

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

• You do this when you make something • That chair is as soft as a rock. (soft/firm)
from your own ideas. (create)
• The bad guy saved a boy’s life by driving
• This word describes something that isn’t him to the hospital. (bad guy/hero)
fun or exciting. (dull)
• The movie was so interesting, it put me
• A dog could be one if it saved someone’s to sleep. (interesting/dull)
life. (a hero)
• Molly will destroy a card to give to her
• This word describes something that is mom on Mother’s Day. (destroy/create)
hard when you touch it. (firm)

4 Read each sentence and ask students to
2 Read each sentence and ask students decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
to supply the correct word to complete is false, instruct students to explain why.
the sentence.
• A hero is brave and good. (true)
• Chris thinks recess is on rainy days.
(dull) • A firm object makes a good pillow.
(false; a firm object would be hard and
• Yuki wants to a vegetable garden in uncomfortable for your head)
her backyard. (create)
e
• The word create means to copy
• When I was little, I played with a soft someone’s idea. (false; create means to
e
baseball bat. Now I use a bat. make something from your own ideas)
(firm)
l
• The word dull means about the same as
• A saves someone from danger. boring. (true)
(hero)

Answers for page 23: 1. B, 2. F, 3. D, 4. H

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