Grade 8 · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 13
Precise Words & Spelling
Spelling rules, word parts and exact vocabulary
What your child practises
Children use word families, prefixes, suffixes and spelling rules, choose precise words for a subject, and use word-processing tools to format a document.
Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Production · discipline-specific vocabulary, formatting a digital document and spelling strategies, derivatives and bases
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?
- defanitely
- definitly
- definitely
- definately
definitely
Hint: It has finite inside.
Question 2
Which word contains the prefix “trans-” meaning “across”?
- trust
- train
- trample
- transport
transport
Hint: Trans- + port (carry).
Question 3
When adding -ly to “happy”, the y changes to…
- i: happily
- e: happyly
- o: happoly
- nothing: happyly
i: happily
Hint: Change y to i before most suffixes.
Question 4
Which word means the opposite of “expand”?
- stretch
- extend
- contract
- grow
contract
Hint: Opposite in meaning is an antonym.
Question 5
Which word is spelled correctly?
- envirenment
- enviroment
- environment
- enviornment
environment
Hint: There is an n before the m: environ-ment.
Question 6
Which sentence uses a discipline-specific word correctly?
- The photosynthesis ate the rain.
- The photosynthesis in the leaves made glucose.
- The photosynthesis sang loudly.
- The photosynthesis was a big building.
The photosynthesis in the leaves made glucose.
Hint: Technical words must fit their meaning.