Week 8 of 36 · 10 words · ages 14–15
9th Grade spelling words, week 8: Plurals in -a, -i, -ae
9th Grade spelling words · week 8 · Plurals in -a, -i, -ae · spellchirp.com
- criteria
- Standards used to judge or decide something.
- phenomena
- Events or facts that can be observed, often remarkable ones.
- curricula
- The full sets of courses taught in schools.
- alumni
- Former students of a school or college.
- nuclei
- The central cores of cells or atoms.
- stimuli
- Things that cause a reaction in a living thing.
- fungi
- Living things such as mushrooms and yeast.
- larvae
- Young insects that look like worms before they change.
- vertebrae
- The small bones that make up the spine.
- bacilli
- Rod-shaped germs.
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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