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Grade 5 · English Language Arts · Unit 13 of 16

Revise and Spell It Right

Make writing clearer and spell tricky words

What your child practises

Using checklists and feedback to revise for order and focus, and using spelling patterns, strategies and dictionaries (with Canadian spelling) to check words.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Production · revising with criteria and feedback, and spelling strategies and patterns

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 is spelled correctly (Canadian)?

    • color
    • colur
    • colour

  2. Question 2

    Revising means…

    • copying the draft
    • only fixing spelling
    • improving ideas, order and clarity

  3. Question 3

    Which is correct?

    • I will practis piano.
    • I will practise piano.
    • I will practice piano.

  4. Question 4

    Which sentence should come first in a recipe's steps?

    • Wash your hands.
    • Eat and enjoy.
    • Serve on a plate.

  5. Question 5

    Which tool can confirm how to spell "necessary"?

    • a digital dictionary
    • a thesaurus only
    • a guess

  6. Question 6

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • accommodate
    • acommodate
    • accomodate

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