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Spelling Skills
First, understand what the spelling curriculum is for eighth grade. By eighth grade
students should be familiar with around 15,000 words and will read over one million
words annually. Eight grade spelling students should know how to decode words they
have never seen before through understanding of English language spelling
conventions. They also need knowledge and strategies for spelling words they've never
spelled before. Therefore the emphasis in eight grade spelling is to be sure students are
aware of spelling conventions and able to apply them correctly. One example of a
spelling convention is that if a suffix starts with a vowel, such as -ABLE, -ED, or -ING,
and a root word ends in a single vowel and consonant, the final letter will be doubled.
We see that STOP becomes STOPPING, TAP becomes TAPPED, and CLAP becomes
CLAPPING. There are many other spelling conventions introduced and discussed
during eighth grade spelling, all of which contribute to the student's skill in reading and
writing the English language.
Eighth grade spelling games, spelling worksheets, and spelling bee activities teach
eighth grade spelling skill. An eighth grade spelling activity provides an opportunity for
children to get the spelling skill to read most two syllable words. These very young
children learn through spelling activities including many creative methods that make the
eighth grade spelling program fun for them. Eighth grade spelling includes home
spelling help, spelling words, spelling games, spelling tests, and other spelling activity.
abbreviate
cinnamon
absorbent
classic
accept
collateral
access
colleague
accessible
college
accessory
comedy
acoustics
commerce
accumulate
commercial
acknowledgment
committee
adjust
communicate
aerial
commuter
affects
compel
alien
compensation
allotment
competent
allotted
consider
already
contiguous
altercation
corporal
amass
council
amendment
counsel
amorous
country
ancestor
creator
anecdote
critique
angular
customary
anonymous
customer
antidote
daybreak
antique
deceive
antiseptic
defendant
architect
deficient
arrangement
deficit
asphalt
depreciation
assignment
desirable
asterisk
desolate
attorneys
detain
audible
devour
aviator
diagnosis
bachelor
diffidence
bankruptcy
diminish
erroneous
especially
exceptional
excessive
existence
exotic
expression
extremity
extricate
facsimile
familiar
fantastic
faulty
federal
feud
flexible
flout
fluorescent
folklore
forcible
fortunately
franchise
frivolous
frostbitten
further
galaxy
galling
genuine
gesture
geology
gigantic
gnawing
gorgeous
grotesque
gymnasium
handicapped
handling
irksome
irresistible
irrevocable
issuing
itemized
jewelry
judicious
juror
justifiable
landslide
legitimate
leisure
liaison
library
license
lieutenant
loophole
lunar
luncheon
magnify
malefactor
malicious
markup
mattress
mesmerize
meteor
metric
mischievous
misgiving
modern
modicum
mystery
negligence
neon
neutral
newsstand
nineteenth
poignancy
poignant
potential
preceding
precipice
preoccupy
prospectus
quest
questionnaire
quixotic
radioactive
rapacious
rayon
raze
recently
reconcile
relevant
relief
repulse
revive
rhyme
rhythm
roommate
roster
sanctuary
sandwich
scarcely
schedule
schism
scholar
schooner
sedition
semester
seminary
session
shrine
sieve
barbaric
bask
battery
behavior
benefited
berserk
besieged
bicycle
blanch
brilliance
budget
bulletin
business
cachet
callus
cancellation
canvas
canvass
capricious
carburetor
cashier
catastrophe
centripetal
characteristic
chaste
disappeared
disapproval
disbursement
discernible
discrepancy
disinterested
disoblige
dissociate
distress
diurnal
divine
domestic
domesticate
dominance
easier
ecstasy
effect
eject
eligible
eliminate
encouragement
encyclopedia
epic
equilibrium
handsome
haphazard
harness
hazardous
headquarters
homogenize
horrific
humidor
idiosyncrasy
impatience
impinge
incandescent
inconsolable
indelible
inept
influence
innocence
innumerable
insistent
insoluble
integrity
intensify
interrogative
invariable
nonentity
noticeable
notoriety
nuisance
numerator
nylon
obesity
oblique
obstinate
obsolete
officious
opposite
optimism
oregano
overrate
pageant
parliament
passable
paucity
penalty
perseverance
personality
picnicking
plaintiff
signal
sincerely
soccer
solitary
subvert
statutory
terrific
thieves
tragedy
transient
transmutation
turpitude
tyranny
unacceptable
unique
unmoved
usher
utopia
vengeance
vocal
voucher
withhold
wrestle
written
workbooks, spelling games, and structured computer spelling programs can help teach
or reinforce these skills.
Some children need spelling practice, while others need more intensive remedial
spelling programs. Parents can help their children with the spelling process by providing
high-quality educational materials, establishing a pattern of daily spelling and reading,
instructing through guided spelling activity, creating a rich language environment,
discussing a child's progress with teachers, and following up on their recommendations.
Time4Learning offers fun, computer spelling and reading programs, which help reinforce
spelling skills at home through educational activities and learning games. Learn more
about Time4Learning's computer reading programs, we offer activities for kids,
preschool to eighth grade.
Predict what will happen next in a story using clues presented in text.
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Create questions about the main idea, message, or plot of the text.
3.
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5.
"Interesting, Let's check and read this part again." Reread the passage and then
discuss your new understanding.
Time4Learning teaches reading comprehension skills in a number of ways. There are
variety of reading activities for students, which help young readers develop skills in
approaching, reading, and interpreting text. Take a demo of Time4Learning's computer
reading programs.
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Rutabaga
supplement
n. and v. quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)
patience
adj. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
centennial
n. the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
financier
n. an expert or one clever at handling stocks, bonds, investments, and other money
matters
larynx
n. voice box; passageway for air moving from pharynx to trachea; contains vocal cords
accomplice
n. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical
or illegal plan)
photosynthesis
n. process by which plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide
into sugars
ineffable
adj. incapable of being expressed (b/c too wonderful)
fallacy
n. a false or mistaken idea
psychoanalysis
n. A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating
various mental disorders
vengeance
n. punishment in return for an injury or a wrong; unusual force or violence (a BAD
idea that harms the one perpetrating it -- one should only 'get back' or 'get even' w/
those who have helped one)
aggrandizement
an increase in rank or wealth; growth in power (usu. falsely exaggerated)
labyrinth
n. a very complicated maze
cajolery
n. strong persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing
rotisserie
n. a turning device on which food is cooked (restaurant that serves food cooked this
way)
omniscient
adj. All-knowing (Ms. Fong!)
circuitous
adj. indirect, ROUNDabout
pigeon
n. slang for tattle-tale; 'rat w/ wings', rock dove;
competitive
adj. characterized by rivalry.
scholarship
n. 1. studious attention to learning; 2. financial aid provided to a student on the basis
of academic merit
apprentice
n. A person who works for another in order to learn a trade
exhaust
1. v. to wear out completely 2. n. gases ejected from an engine as waste products
monopolize
v. to have and control fully and exclusively
scruple
n. an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
agricultural
adj. relating to farming or rural things
encore
n. 1) an extra or repeated performance 2) again (French word)
suburban
adj. relating to or characteristic of the area just outside a big city
quarantine
n./v. isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
oblige
v. to force or compel somebody to do something
hysterical
adj. 1. uncontrollably emotional; 2. super funny (slang)
miraculous
adj. performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency
affiliation
n. a link or association w/ s.o./s.t.
subterranean
adj. underground
luxury
n. something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity; a lifestyle filled with
overconsumption
indelible
adj. impossible to be removed, washed away or erased
anticoagulant
n. a drug that prevents clotting of the blood
conundrum
n. a hard puzzle; riddle; difficult problem
palatable
adj. acceptable to the taste or mind
analogize
v. to make a comparison of two things -- show their similiarity in some way/trait
infatuation
n. foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
enfranchise
v. to give the vote and/or grant freedom to
analgesia
n. condition of being unable to feel pain
latitudinarian
(n) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant; one who displays freedom in thinking,
especially in religious matters
adieu
paramecium
n. a protozoan (very small animal) that moves by using the hair-like cilia around its
body
adjudicate
v. 1. to put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge; 2. to bring an end to s.t.
calisthenics
n. light exercise designed to promote general fitness
brigadier
n. a general officer ranking below a major general
anemone
n. marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles