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Week 8
Review A Word a Day

entrance • chatter • popular • scrub

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

• You should do this to an icky, sticky • Tony is unknown because he is the best
t
floor. (scrub it) player on the soccer team.
(unknown/popular)
• This word describes a person who has
many friends. (popular) • Most guests use the exit to come into
our home. (exit/entrance)
• Many kids do this before the school bell
rings in the morning. (chatter) • Dad will have to dry the dirty grill to get
y
y
it clean. (dry/scrub)
• Every house needs one of these.
(an entrance)
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. • The entrance to a building is usually
a door. (true)
• During recess , some older students
like to instead of playing games. • Popular people can get many party
(chatter) invitations. (true)

• Dan planted flowers in the garden, so • You work hard when you scrub
now he needs to his hands. (scrub) something clean. (true)

• The to our house is a large red • When people chatter, they talk about
door. (entrance) important things. (false; when people
chatter, they discuss unimportant
• Birds are pets in most countries.
(popular) things)

Answers for page 35: 1. D, 2. F, 3. A, 4. G

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