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VOCABULARY WORD LIST

Reading 1: Because of Winn-Dixie


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

RWNpp42, 46
grand excellent; very good
memorial helping people to remember a person, thing, or event
peculiar strange; unusual
positive without doubt; sure
prideful overly proud of oneself
recalls calls back to mind; remembers
selecting picking out; choosing

Reading 2: Lewis and Clark and Me

RWNpp53, p.57

1. docks platforms built on the shore or out from the shore; wharves; piers
2. migrating going from one region to another with the change in seasons
3. scan to glance at; look over hastily
4. scent - a smell
5. wharf platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside which ships can load or unload
6. yearned felt a longing or desire

Reading 3: On the Banks of Plum Creek RWN p64, 68


1. badger (n) a hairy gray mammal larger than a weasel that digs holes in the ground to live in; to
keep annoying or teasing someone.
2. bank (n) ground bordering a river, lake; a shallow place in a body of water
3. bristled (v) to make fur stand up straight
4. jointed (adj) having joints or a place at which two bones or other parts are joined together.
5. patched (v) made by joining two pieces together; pieced together
6. ruffled (v) to make rough or uneven
7. rushes (v) moves with speed or force; (n) a kind of grass

Reading 5 - Letters Home from Yosemite RWN p86, 68


1. impressive able to impress the mind, feelings, conscience
2. naturalist - a person who studies living things
3. preserve to keep from harm or change; protect
4. slopes- land that goes up or down at an angle
5. species a set of related living things that share certain characteristics and that can interbreed
6. wilderness a wild region with few or no people living in it
7. glacier great mass of ice that moves very slowly down a mountain or along a valley

Reading 6 What Jo Did RWN p111, 115


1. fouled made an unfair play against (base word: foul)
2. hoop - ring, round, flat band
3. jersey shirt made of soft knitted cloth that is pulled over the head
4. marveled filled with wonder; astonished (base word: marvel)
5. rim an edge, border or margin;
6. speechless not able to talk
7. unbelievable incredible; hard to think of as true or real

WORD STUDY / SPELLING WORD LIST


WORD STUDY/
SPELLING Short
Vowels: VCCV
Pattern
RWNp44, 49

Word Study/
Spelling
Words: Long a
and long i
RWNp55, 60

Word Study/
Spelling
Words Long e
and o RWN
p66, 71

Word Study/
Spelling
Words:
Long e
RWN p77, 82

Word Study/
Spelling Words:
Long u
RWN p88, 93

1. admire
2. magnet

1. sigh
2. right

1. sweet
2. each

1.
2.

prairie
calorie

1. usual
2. huge

3. contest

3. weigh

3. three

3.

honey

3. flute

4. method

4. eight

4. least

4.

valley

4. mood

5. custom

5. detail

5. freedom

5.

money

5. smooth

6. rally

6. height

6. below

6.

finally

6. threw

7. soccer

7. spray

7. throat

7.

movie

7. afternoon

8. engine

8. braid

8. float

8.

countr

8. scooter

9. sudden

9. bait

9. foam

10. finger

10.

grain

10. flown

11. accident

11.

slight

11. greet

12. mitten

12.

thigh

12. season

13. intend

13.

tight

13. croak

14. fabric

14.

raisin

14. shallow

15. flatten

15.

trait

15. eagle

16. rascal

16.

highway

16. indeed

17. gutter

17.

frighten

17. rainbow

18. mammal

18.

dismay

18. grown

19. happen

19.

freight

19. seaweed

20. cannon

20.

sleigh

20. hollow

21. dungeon *

21.

eighteen
*

21. Halloween

22. magnify *

22. mayonnaise *

23. festival *
24. thunderstor
m*
25. injury *

25.

22. speedomete
r

23.

campaig
n*

23. underneat
h

24.

daylight

24. seacoast

25. twilight

25

25. cocoa

9.

empty

10.

city

11.

rookie

12.

hockey

13.

collie

14.

breezy

15.

jury

16.

balcon
y

17.

steady

18.

alley

19.

trolley

20. misty

9. juice
10. cruise
11. truth
12. bruise
13. cruel
14. excuse
15. pupil
16. groove
17. confuse
18. humor
19. duty
20. curfew
21. influence
22. aluminum
23. nutrition
24. accumulat
e
25. igloo

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