wonders spelling and school to home vocabulary

Wonders Spelling and Vocabulary

School to Home

Unit 1

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1. brainstorm solve a problem by having group members all contribute ideas freely

2. flattened made flatter, or more level or smooth

3. frantically to act wildly excited due to worry or fear

4. gracious to show kindness and courtesy

5. muttered speak in a low, unclear way

6. official properly approved or authorized

7. original to do, make, or think of something new or different

8. stale old or not fresh

Vocabulary Words

4th Grade List Beyond List

Comprehension Strategy Making Predictions

Comprehension Skill Character, Setting, Plot: Sequence

Vocabulary Strategy Context Clues

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Unit 1Week 2

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1. accountable to be responsible

2. advise to give one's opinion or to inform

3. desperately try anything to change a hopeless situation

4. hesitated waited or stopped, especially because of feeling unsure

5. humiliated made to feel ashamed or foolish

6. inspiration person or thing that stirs the mind, feelings, or imagination

7. self-esteem to have respect for oneself

8. uncomfortably uneasily

Comprehension Strategy Making Predictions

Comprehension Skill Character, Setting, Plot: Problem & Solution

Vocabulary Strategy Figurative Language

Unit 1Week 3

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1. alter make different or change

2. collapse fall down or cave in

3. crisis difficult or dangerous

4. destruction great damage or ruin

5. hazard something that can cause harm or injury

6. severe very harsh or serious

7. substantial something of a great amount or size

8. unpredictable not able to tell beforehand

Comprehension Strategy Reread

Comprehension Skill Text Structure: Compare and Contrast


Unit 1Week 4

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Comprehension Skill Text Structure: Cause and Effect


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1. accelerate to move or cause to move faster

2. advantage something that is helpful or useful

3. capabilities to have the needed skills, powers, or abilities

4. friction a force between surfaces that slows objects or stops them from moving

5. gravity force that pulls objects toward each other

6. identity who a person is or who a thing is

7. inquiry a search for information

8. thrilling exciting

Unit 1Week 5

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Comprehension Skill Main Idea & Key detailsVocabulary Strategy Suffixes

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1. compassionate to be sympathetic

2. enterprise something difficult or important that a person plans or tries to do

3. exceptional to be extraordinary

4. funds money that is ready for use

5. innovative something new or done in a new way

6. process series of actions performed when making or doing something

7. routine a fixed way or method of doing something

8. undertaking something someone decides to do or start

Unit 2

Unit 2Week 1

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Comprehension Skill ThemeVocabulary Strategy Root Words

1. attracted drew the attention of

2. dazzling so bright that it is almost blinding

3. fabric material that is woven or knitted, such as cloth

4. greed very great or selfish desire to have or get something

5. honest truthful, fair, or trustworthy

6. requested asked for

7. soared flew very high in the air

8. trudged walked steadily and slowly

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Unit 2Week 2

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1. annoyed feel bothered or irritated

2. attitude a way of thinking, acting, or feeling

3. commotion noisy disturbance

4. cranky person is grouchy or in a bad mood

5. familiar well-known because was heard or seen before

6. frustrated to feel disappointed by being kept from doing something

7. selfish people who care only about themselves

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Unit 2Week 3

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1. crumbled broke into small pieces

2. droughts long periods of dry weather without rain

3. ecosystem all the living and nonliving things in an area

4. extinct no longer exists

5. flourished thrived or grew strongly

6. fragile delicate and tends to break easily

7. imbalance parts are not in an equal, steady, or secure position

8. ripples forms small waves

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Unit 2Week 4

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Comprehension Skill Main Idea & Key DetailsVocabulary Strategy Prefixes

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1. camouflaged hidden by looking like its surroundings

2. dribbles to flow or let flow in small drops

3. extraordinary very unusual or remarkable

4. poisonous harms or kills by chemical actions

5. pounce leap or spring suddenly in attack

6. predator animal that lives by hunting other animals for food

7. prey animal that is hunted by another animal

8. vibrations rapid motions back and forth or up and down

Unit 2Week 5

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Comprehension Skill Point of ViewVocabulary Strategy Figurative Language

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1. brittle easily broken

2. creative ability to do something in a new way

3. descriptive describe or tell about something

4. metaphor a comparison between two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

5. meter the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

6. outstretched extended to full length

7. rhyme words that have the same ending sound

8. simile a comparison between two things USING "like" or "as"

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Unit 3

Unit 3Week 1

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Comprehension Skill Point of ViewVocabulary Strategy Context Clues

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1. acquaintance someone you know but who is not a close friend

2. cautiously to do something with care

3. complementary makes something whole or complete

4. jumble confused mixture or condition

5. logical makes sense and is based on reason

6. scornfully to say or do in a way that shows dislike or that you are making

fun

7. scrounging trying to obtain or collect something with difficulty

8. trustworthy to be reliable

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1. assigned given out as a task

2. generosity willingness and happiness to share in an unselfish way

3. gingerly to do carefully or with extreme caution

4. mature to show the qualities of being an adult

5. organizations groups of people who join together for a purpose

6. residents people who live in a particular place

7. scattered to be spread or thrown about

8. selective very careful with making choices

Unit 3Week 3

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Comprehension Skill Author’s Point of ViewVocabulary Strategy Synonyms and Antonyms

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1. boycott planned joining with others in refusing to buy from or deal with a

person, nation, or business

2. encouragement support that inspires hope and confidence

3. fulfill to carry out or finish

4. injustice lack of justice or fairness

5. mistreated treated badly by others

6. protest object to something

7. qualified person has the needed abilities to do something

8. registered had his or her name placed on a list

Unit 3Week 4

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Comprehension Skill Author’s Point of ViewVocabulary Strategy Latin and Greek Suffixes

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1. address formal speech

2. divided separated into parts or pieces

3. haste done with quickness in moving or in acting

4. opposed he or she is against it

5. perish to disappear or vanish

6. proclamation official public announcement of something

7. shattered completely destroyed or ruined

8. tension mental or emotional strain

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Unit 3Week 5

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1. advancements improvements that move an idea ahead

2. agriculture science and business of raising crops and farm animals

3. characteristics qualities that belong to and help to identify a person or thing

4. concerns a worried interest in something

5. disagree to have a different opinion

6. inherit to receive from one's parent or parents

7. prevalent commonly accepted, used, or widespread

8. resistance act of fighting against or overcoming something

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Unit 4

Unit 4Week 1

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Comprehension Skill Cause and EffectVocabulary Strategy Latin Roots

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1. amendments formal changes made according to official procedures

2. commitment sense of obligation toward something

3. compromise to reach an agreement by having each side give up part of its demands

4. democracy government that is run by the people who live under it

5. eventually in the end or finally

6. legislation laws are made or passed

7. privilege special right or benefit held by a certain group of people

8. version an account given in a particular way

Unit 4Week 2

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Comprehension Skill Point of ViewVocabulary Strategy Figurative Language

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1. accompanies goes along with something

2. campaign series of actions planned and carried out to bring about a particular result

3. governor person elected to be the head of a state government in the United States

4. intend to have a purpose or plan in mind

5. opponent person or group that is against another in a fight, contest, or discussion

6. overwhelming overcoming or overpowering completely

7. tolerate to put up with or endure something or someone

8. weary to be very tired

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1. decade period of 10 years

2. directing act of giving instructions, ordering, or commanding

3. engineering work that uses scientific knowledge for practical things such as building

bridges and dams

4. gleaming shining or glowing

5. scouted looked at or explored in order to find out and bring back more information

6. squirmed turned and twisted the body

7. technology use of science for practical purposes, especially in engineering and

industry

8. tinkering puttering or keeping busy in an aimless way

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1. astronomer studies the stars and planets

2. crescent curve that is wider in the middle and tapered at the end

3. phases different stages of the moon

4. rotates turns around on an axis

5. series number of similar things coming one after another

6. sliver thin, often pointed piece that has been broken, cut or torn

off

7. specific exact or particular

8. telescope tool that makes distant objects seem larger or nearer

Unit 4Week 5


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Comprehension Skill ThemeVocabulary Strategy Connotation and Denotation

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1. attain To work hard to achieve a goal and to be SUCCESSFUL AT THE END

2. connotation the idea suggested by the meaning of a word; how it makes you feel

3. dangling Hanging or swinging loosely.

4. denotation basic definition of a word; what it means

5. hovering When an object stays in one place in the air; ABOVE.

6. repetition over and over again

7. stanza the lines of a poem

8. triumph A great victory or success.Sp

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Unit 5

Unit 5Week 1


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Comprehension Skill Problem and SolutionVocabulary Strategy Figurative Language

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1. bouquet a bunch of picked flowers

2. emotion strong feeling such as love, hate, happiness, sorrow, or fear

3. encircle surround or form a circle around

4. express to say or show something

5. fussy hard to please or picky

6. portraits pictures of people, usually showing only the face and upper part of the body

7. sparkles shines in quick, bright flashes

8. whirl to turn or spin around rapidlySp

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Unit 5Week 2


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Comprehension Skill Cause and EffectVocabulary Strategy Homographs

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1. plunging falling or moving downward very quickly

2. prospector person who looks for gold, silver, or other minerals in the ground

3. scoffed expressed ridicule or contempt toward an idea

4. settlement a place where people live when they first arrive in an area that is new to them

5. shrivel shrink, wrinkle, or wither

6. territories large areas of land where people start living in a region new to them

7. topple collapse or fall

8. withered dried up from heat or lack of moisture

Unit 5Week 3


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Comprehension Skill Problem and SolutionVocabulary Strategy Greek Roots

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1. dizzy feel like you’re spinning and about to fall

2. experiment a test that is used to discover or prove something by watching results very

carefully

3. genuine real or what it seems to be

4. hilarious very funny

5. mischief behavior that causes minor harm or annoyance

6. nowadays in the present day

7. politician a person who holds or seeks a government office

8. procedure proper way of doing something, usually by a series of stepsSp

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Comprehension Skill SequenceVocabulary Strategy Context Clues

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1. cling to stick closely

2. dissolves a solid turns into a solution as a liquid

3. gritty contains very small bits of sand or stone

4. humid moist or full of water vapor

5. magnify to make something look bigger than it really is

6. microscope device for looking at things that are too small to be seen with the naked eye

7. mingle to mix or come together

8. typical show qualities or characteristics of a certain type

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Comprehension Skill SequenceVocabulary Strategy Figurative Language

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1. archaeology study of the way humans lived a long time ago

2. document to keep a record

3. era period of time in history, usually beginning with an important event

4. evidence proof of something

5. expedition journey made for a particular reason

6. permanent lasting

7. tremendous very large or great

8. uncover discover it or make it known

Unit 6

Unit 6Week 1


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Comprehension Skill ThemeVocabulary Strategy Connotation and Denotation

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1. ancestors people from whom one is descended

2. despised looked down on as worthless or scorned

3. endurance power to put up with hardships and difficulties

4. forfeit to lose or have to give up because of some fault, accident, or

mistake

5. honor to show or feel great respect for a person or thing

6. intensity having or showing strong feeling, purpose, or effort

7. irritating can make someone angry or impatient

8. retreated withdrawn or moved back

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1. depicts to show in pictures or words

2. detested disliked or hated very much

3. discarded thrown away

4. eldest the one who was born first

5. ignored having not paid attention to someone or something

6. obedience the act of following instructions or doing what someone else says to do

7. refuge a shelter or protection from danger or trouble

8. treacherous full of danger or hazardous

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Vocabulary Words

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1. coincidence a remarkable occurrence of events or circumstances at the same time,

apparently by chance

2. consequences results of an action

3. consume use up or destroy

4. converted changed in character, condition, or use

5. efficient get the wanted results with a minimum amount of time and effort

6. incredible hard or impossible to believe

7. installed put in place for use or service

8. renewable able to be replaced or restoredSp

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Vocabulary Words

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1. currency money used in a country

2. economics science that studies the way people use resources to produce goods and

services

3. entrepreneur a person who starts and runs a business

4. global has to do with the world

5. invest to use money to buy something that will make more money

6. marketplace a place where food and other products are bought and sold

7. merchandise the goods that are for sale

8. transaction the act of carrying out a business exchange

Unit 6Week 5


Vocabulary Test:

Reading Test:Test

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Comprehension Skill ThemeVocabulary Strategy Figurative Language

Vocabulary Words

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1. free verse Poems with irregular lines and lack a metrical pattern and rhyme

scheme.

2. gobble To eat quickly and in large chunks.

3. imagery The use of words to create a picture in the reader's mind.

4. individuality A quality that makes one person or thing different from others.

5. metaphor Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.

6. mist A cloud of tiny drops of water or other liquid in the air.

7. personification Giving human characteristics to anything that is not human.

8. roots A person's ancestors.

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