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Friday, November 16, 2012

Spelling Words

Quiz on Monday for 811, Tuesday for 807 and 812

Review the rules on the Basic Spelling Rules worksheet.

Here are the words you should know:

Rule 1:
diesel
receiver
mischief
neighbor
reign
deceive
conceive

exceptions:
weird
protein
seize
foreign
caffeine
leisurely

Rule 2:
psychology
rhythm
rhyme
pneumonia

Rule 3:
control + able =
occur + ence =
transmit + er =
exit + ing =
weaken + ed =

Rule 4:
creative + ity =
demonstrate + ion =
advantage + ous =

Rule 5:
mercy + less =
silly + ness =
joy + ous =
plenty + ful =

Rule 6:
tomato + s =
eyelash + s =
berry + s =

Rule 7:
mis + spell =
un + necessary =
il + literate =
pre + eminent =

Rule 8 - Homophones: You must know how to use each word correctly in a sentence:
stationary/stationery
principal/principle
cite/site/sight
affect/effect
their/there/they're
piece/peace
whether/weather

Adding suffixes to Unit 1 words (know the parts of speech of each word):
churlishness
collaborator
preclusion
revertible
servility

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