• Try to guess the meanings of the words on each slide.• Use your word Splash answers ONLY if needed• You must do 3 push-ups for each incorrect answer! ;)

(Well, okay…nobody’s really watching!)

Tables, fences, people…

Plural nouns

Verbs

•Action words

PPTA

Words that are opposite in meaning

•antonyms

Only one thing…

•Singular

Topic Sentence

• A grabby first sentence of a paragraph

Dog, cat, fence, table, desk

nouns

Beats in a word

•Syllables

punctuation

• comma• Period• Question mark• Exclamation mark• Colon• Quotation marks• Brackets• Apostrophe…

Sad, glad, huge, enormous, pleasant

• adjectives

Aleah, Taijsha, Australia, Steinbach, Loewen Windows

• Proper nouns

Happy-Excited

synonym

Can’t, won’t, shouldn’t, hasn’t

ing, ed, es, s

•suffixes

Hopping, galloping, swimming, fighting…

-A group of sentences-one topic-indented

-punctuation and capitals

• paragraph

Too, two, to

• homonym

Thumb Space

• indenting

• Used in contractions to replace letters

• Used to show possessives

• “Flying comma”

Doghouse, dollhouse, sandbox, racecar, superman, spiderman

• Compound words

Big- Small

Antonym

Guide words

• 2 words at the top of each dictionary page that help you find words alphabetically.

Anti, sub, pro, in, un, mis

prefix

Letters that come at the beginning of the word that usually change the

meaning of the word…

A breath break

He, she, it, them, they

pronoun

Two words put together using an apostrophe

• contraction

Comma, period, apostrophe, exclamation mark, semi-colon…

punctuation

Quickly, quietly, slowly, abruptly, clumsily, foolishly, hungrily…

•adverbs

Usually ends in “ly”

Jackson’s, Mr. Neufeld’sstudents’

•possessives