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Week of March 31st thru April
4th
"Tornado"
Vocabulary
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tornado:
a whirling column of air shaped like a tunnel
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twister:
another name for a tornado
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ditch:
a long, narrow trench that drains water away
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hail:
small balls of ice that fall from the sky
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damage:
the harm that something does
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gust:
a sudden, strong blast of wind
Spelling Words
- scout
- straight
- slip
- skunk
- spell
- snack
- scrub
- sweet
- smell
- scream
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- skin
- sled
- smooth
- spend
- swamp
- scratch
- slug
- stretch
- swim
- smack
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Bonus Words
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April 7th thru 11th
"Wild & Woolly Mammoths"
Vocabulary
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preserved:
protected and kept in an original state
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prehistoric:
belonging to times before history was written down
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extinct:
no longer existing
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artifacts:
objects made by people long ago
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archaeologists: people who study the
past by digging up and examining old buildings and objects
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ruins:
buildings that have fallen apart or have been destroyed
Spelling Words
- broke
- campsite
- celebrate
- froze
- decide
- alone
- upstairs
- excuse
- misplace
- replace
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- remove
- provide
- closely
- describe
- third
- alive
- birdcage
- place
- move
- inside
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Bonus Words
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Steps for Answering Reading TAKS Practice Questions
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Number all paragraphs.
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 Circle the title.
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Underline the first and last sentence in each paragraph.
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Circle all the underlined words in the story or passage.
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Underline the sentence before and after the underlined word.
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Read the passage AT LEAST 2 times.
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Write out to the side of each paragraph what the paragraph is mainly
about.
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Write the paragraph number of the answer next to the question.
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Write Spelling words three times.
