1. Words with Double Consonants:
The Power of Magnets
Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Skills:
Cause and Effect – The cause is the reason why something happens. The effect is something that happens.
Summarize – When you summarize, you briefly tell the important parts of a text in your own words.
Homographs and Homophones – Homographs are words that are spelled the same but may be pronounced differently and have different meanings. Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Contractions – A contraction is a word made by shortening two words and putting them together. An apostrophe is the punctuation that takes the place of a letter or letters in a contraction.
Spelling
Words with Double Consonants:
jelly bottom pillow happen butter
lesson cherry sudden arrow dollar
hello rabbit letter button funny
better stubborn mirror yellow collar
Review Vocabulary:
Directions: Use a dictionary to define each vocabulary word.
research – ______________________________________________________
tools – _________________________________________________________
familiar – _______________________________________________________
gadget – _______________________________________________________
invention – ______________________________________________________
experiment – ____________________________________________________
electric – _______________________________________________________
power – ________________________________________________________
prove – ________________________________________________________
improve - _______________________________________________________