This Week's Spelling List

Unit 6:  Freedom                                                    Week 3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

This week we are reading “Talking Walls: Art of the People.”  We will focus on some vocabulary words in this story.  It would be helpful if you will reinforce the meaning of these words at home with your child.  Also, please practice the spelling words below. Students are expected to practice the first 15, 20, or all 25 of the words.   Be sure to refer to the spelling rule described below.  Please listen to your child read the spelling words aloud.

Vocabulary Words:  native, encourages, expression, support, settled, social, local

Spelling Rule:  Word endings -tion, -sion, -ture

                                 action, division, feature

1.   question      2.   creature      3.   furniture      4.   division      5.   collision      6.   action      7.   direction      8.   culture      9.   vacation     10.  mansion

11.  fiction    12.  feature    13.  sculpture    14.  vision 15.  celebration

                                 EXTRA CHALLENGE WORDS

16.  fascination           17.  legislature           18.  manufacture           19.  possession           20.  declaration               EXTRA  CHALLENGE WORDS                        21.  adaptation           22.  classification           23.   horticulture           24.   abbreviation         25.   comprehension