• Try to guess the meanings of the words on each slide.• Use your word Splash answers ONLY if needed• You must do 3 push-ups for each incorrect answer! ;)
(Well, okay…nobody’s really watching!)
Tables, fences, people…
Plural nouns
Verbs
•Action words
PPTA
Words that are opposite in meaning
•antonyms
Only one thing…
•Singular
Topic Sentence
• A grabby first sentence of a paragraph
Dog, cat, fence, table, desk
nouns
Beats in a word
•Syllables
punctuation
• comma• Period• Question mark• Exclamation mark• Colon• Quotation marks• Brackets• Apostrophe…
Sad, glad, huge, enormous, pleasant
• adjectives
Aleah, Taijsha, Australia, Steinbach, Loewen Windows
• Proper nouns
Happy-Excited
synonym
Can’t, won’t, shouldn’t, hasn’t
ing, ed, es, s
•suffixes
Hopping, galloping, swimming, fighting…
-A group of sentences-one topic-indented
-punctuation and capitals
• paragraph
Too, two, to
• homonym
Thumb Space
• indenting
• Used in contractions to replace letters
• Used to show possessives
• “Flying comma”
Doghouse, dollhouse, sandbox, racecar, superman, spiderman
• Compound words
Big- Small
Antonym
Guide words
• 2 words at the top of each dictionary page that help you find words alphabetically.
Anti, sub, pro, in, un, mis
prefix
Letters that come at the beginning of the word that usually change the
meaning of the word…
A breath break
He, she, it, them, they
pronoun
Two words put together using an apostrophe
• contraction
Comma, period, apostrophe, exclamation mark, semi-colon…
punctuation
Quickly, quietly, slowly, abruptly, clumsily, foolishly, hungrily…
•adverbs
Usually ends in “ly”
Jackson’s, Mr. Neufeld’sstudents’
•possessives
