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Week 23 of 36 · 10 words · ages 11–12

6th Grade spelling words, week 23: -cede and -ceed words

Of these words only proceed, succeed and exceed end in -ceed; the others are spelled with ced. All come from Latin cedere, to go or yield.
proceed
To go forward.
succeed
To reach a goal, or to take over after someone.
exceed
To go beyond a limit.
precede
To come before something else.
recede
To move back or away.
concede
To admit defeat or accept that something is true.
secede
To formally break away from a group or nation.
intercede
To step in and speak for someone else.
accede
To agree to a request or demand.
precedent
An earlier case that is used as an example for later ones.

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.

  1. Monday

    Read the list together. Say each word, clap its syllables and find the pattern in it.

  2. Tuesday

    Look, say, cover, write, check — each word once from memory, then check the letters.

  3. Wednesday

    Use every word in a sentence, out loud or on paper, so each one means something.

  4. Thursday

    Practice test: a grown-up reads each word aloud. Circle the misses for tomorrow.

  5. Friday

    The test. One try per word, no letters given. The circled words go first.

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