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Week 22
Review A Word a Day
sniff • collection • wander • fl abbergasted
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.
• Some people do this in shopping malls • The museum has many huge dinosaur
when they aren’t in a hurry. bones in its kitchen.
(wander) (kitchen/collection)
• This word describes someone who is • My dog Ariel likes to taste her food
very surprised. (flabbergasted) before she takes a bite. (taste/sniff)
• You use your nose to do this. (sniff) • We have plenty of time, so let’s rush
through the aquarium and see all the
• This is a group of things that you collect, fish. (rush/wander)
or save. (a collection)
• Mia was bored when she saw a gray
2 Read each sentence and ask students whale leap out of the ocean.
to supply the correct word to complete (bored/flabbergasted)
the sentence.
4 Read each sentence and ask students to
• People often when they have colds.
(sniff) decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
is false, instruct students to explain why.
• Jamie was to hear that she had won
a brand-new bike! (flabbergasted) • One book can be a collection. (false;
a collection is a group of things)
• Our classroom library has a large of
books. (collection) • You wander when you walk directly
from one place to another place.
• Jimmy likes to through the rooms (false; you wander when you walk
of his grandmother’s large house. around without a plan)
( (
(wander)
• You use your ears to sniff a flower. (false;
you use your nose to sniff)
d
d
• Flabbergasted and amazed have about the
same meaning. (true)
Answers for page 91: 1. A, 2. H, 3. B, 4. G
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