2014-2015+Vocabulary-Spelling

ALL SPELLING PADLETS

Week 6 WORDLIST test on 10/15

Week 5 WORDLIST - 10/2 - 10/6

Week 4 WORDLIST - 9/15 - 9/19

Week 3 WORDLIST - 9/8 -9/12

Week 2 WORDLIST

Week 1 WORDLIST

Vocabulary CONTEXT CLUE Strategies Chart


 * **Vocabulary Strategies** ||  **Example Sentence**  ||
 * **Prefixes**

Letters that come before a word that change or add to its meaning. For example, the prefix “un-“ means not, “non-“ means not, and “re-“ means back or again. || My shoe laces are **untied**.

The laces are //not// tied in this example sentence. ||
 * **Context Clues**

Sentences that come before or after a word that give you a clue to its meaning. || My hair is **chaotic**. It is messy because I have not combed it in weeks.

The sentence after chaotic gives you context to understand that something that is chaotic is messy. ||
 * **Contrasting Statements**

Statements or sentences that tell you the opposite meaning of the word. || My shirt is **tainted,** but I have a clean one at home.

In this sentence clean is the opposite of tainted. “But” gives you a clue that there is a contrasting statement in the sentence. ||
 * **Appositives**

The author defines the vocabulary word within the sentence. || I **injured**, or hurt, my knee at the soccer game.

In this example, hurt defines injured in the sentence. ||
 * **Outside Resources (Dictionaries and Glossaries)**

If you cannot figure out a word’s meaning in context, always turn to a dictionary or glossary to determine its meaning. || I like people who are **hygienic**.

In this case, I will look up “hygienic” in the “H” section of the dictionary. I discover that hygienic means “healthy or clean.” ||