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Week 19
Review A Word a Day

jumbo • dodge • odd • deed

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.

• This word tells what you do to move • The taxi driver tried to hit a squirrel that
quickly out of the way of something. suddenly ran into the street. (hit/dodge)
(dodge it)
• A small-sized bucket of chicken will feed
• This word means the same as strange. ten people. (small-/jumbo-)
(odd)
• It would be normal to have snow in
• You might do this to help someone. August. (normal/odd)
(a good deed)

• This word describes the size of an 4 Read each sentence and ask students to
elephant. (jumbo) decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
(
is false, instruct students to explain why.
2 Read each sentence and ask students • Something that is jumbo is very small.
to supply the correct word to complete (false; things that are jumbo are
the sentence. very large)

• I try to do one good a day. (deed) • It is odd to have a dog for a pet. (false;

it is common to have a dog for a pet)
• My mom surprised me with a box
(
of crayons that has 100 colors. (jumbo) • Helping your mom fold the laundry is
a good deed. (true)
• An elephant has an nose that
reaches down to its toes! (odd) • To dodge means to stand still. (false; to
dodge means to move quickly out of
• I had to the ball so it wouldn’t hit
y
y
me. (dodge) the way)

Answers for page 79: 1. B, 2. F, 3. C, 4. J

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