Grade 4 · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 17
Big Words & Smooth Reading
Syllables, spelling and reading with feeling
What your child practises
Practises breaking long words into syllables and parts, spelling tricky words, and reading smoothly by noticing punctuation.
Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.4.A2.3, ELA.4.A2.6 · decoding and spelling multisyllabic words, and reading fluently with punctuation
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which word is spelled correctly?
- enough
- enuff
- enogh
enough
Hint: Learn tricky spellings by chunks: e-nough.
Question 2
Which word is spelled correctly?
- Februry
- February
- Febuary
February
Hint: Feb-ru-ar-y.
Question 3
Which word is split into syllables correctly?
- e-xplore
- ex-plore
- exp-lore
ex-plore
Hint: Ex-plore has two beats.
Question 4
How should you read the sentence "Watch out!"?
- In a whisper, bored
- Very slowly and sleepily
- With strong feeling
With strong feeling
Hint: An exclamation mark shows feeling.
Question 5
How many syllables are in "important"?
- 4
- 3
- 2
3
Hint: Im-por-tant.
Question 6
Which word breaks into the parts "re" + "build" + "ing"?
- building
- rebuilding
- rebuilt
rebuilding
Hint: Re- again, build, -ing.