Week 33 of 36 · 10 words · ages 11–12
6th Grade spelling words, week 33: Suffix -ism: a belief or habit
6th Grade spelling words · week 33 · Suffix -ism: a belief or habit · spellchirp.com
- optimism
- The habit of expecting good things.
- pessimism
- The habit of expecting the worst.
- criticism
- Remarks that point out faults.
- tourism
- The business of providing travel and sights for visitors.
- journalism
- The work of gathering and reporting the news.
- heroism
- Great courage in a time of danger.
- patriotism
- Love of and loyalty to your country.
- vandalism
- Deliberate damage to property.
- mechanism
- A system of parts that work together in a machine.
- organism
- Any living thing, such as a plant or an animal.
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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