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Week 10
Review A Word a Day

wiggle • bashful • harbor • soar

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.

• Worms do this if you touch them. • It’s fun to watch a kite crash in the air.
( (
(wiggle) (crash/soar)
• This word names a place where boats • I can make the pudding stay still when
and ships are parked. (harbor) I move the bowl back and forth.
(stay still/wiggle)
• Sea gulls do this when they fly. (soar)
• Billy was so brave when he met the
• This word describes someone who feels astronaut that he looked down and
shy. (bashful)
whispered hello. (brave/bashful)

2 Read each sentence and ask students • Ships and boats are kept safe in a bus
to supply the correct word to complete station. (bus station/harbor)
the sentence.
4 Read each sentence and ask students to
• Airplanes are kept in an airport, and
ships are kept in a . (harbor) decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
is false, instruct students to explain why.
• Hawks high in the sky, searching
for mice on the ground. (soar) • A bashful person finds it easy to meet
new people. (false; a bashful person is
• I sometimes feel when I meet a shy, especially when meeting someone
w
friend’s parents. (bashful) new)
• I saw a little snake through the • An airplane soars as it lands on a runway.
(
(
grass. (wiggle) (false; an airplane soars when it flies
high in the sky)
y
y
• Puppies often wiggle if you pick them
up. (true)
• A harbor needs to have deep water so
ships can sail into it without getting
stuck. (true)

Answers for page 43: 1. C, 2. F, 3. B, 4. J

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