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Grade 4 · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 13

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.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Comprehension · 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.

  1. Question 1

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • enough
    • enuff
    • enogh

  2. Question 2

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • Februry
    • February
    • Febuary

  3. Question 3

    Which word is split into syllables correctly?

    • e-xplore
    • ex-plore
    • exp-lore

  4. Question 4

    How should you read the sentence "Watch out!"?

    • In a whisper, bored
    • Very slowly and sleepily
    • With strong feeling

  5. Question 5

    How many syllables are in "important"?

    • 4
    • 3
    • 2

  6. Question 6

    Which word breaks into the parts "re" + "build" + "ing"?

    • building
    • rebuilding
    • rebuilt

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