Week 2 of 36 · 10 words · ages 10–11
5th Grade spelling words, week 2: easily confused words
5th Grade spelling words · week 2 · easily confused words · spellchirp.com
- accept
- To take something that is offered.
- except
- Not counting; apart from.
- desert
- A very dry place where little rain falls.
- dessert
- The sweet course at the end of a meal.
- affect
- To change something.
- effect
- The change that something causes.
- loose
- Not tight or firmly fixed.
- lose
- To no longer have something.
- adapt
- To change so that something fits a new place or need.
- adopt
- To take a child or an idea as your own.
Ten minutes a day this week
Short and daily beats long and once. A word met on five separate days is remembered; a word met five times on Thursday night mostly is not.
Monday
Read the list together. Say each word, clap its syllables and find the pattern in it.
Tuesday
Look, say, cover, write, check — each word once from memory, then check the letters.
Wednesday
Use every word in a sentence, out loud or on paper, so each one means something.
Thursday
Practice test: a grown-up reads each word aloud. Circle the misses for tomorrow.
Friday
The test. One try per word, no letters given. The circled words go first.
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