Spelling Stars
Spell the word that means a place where you sit.
What is seat?
This is an airplane with two sets of wings.
What is a biplane?
Mom put a ______ of bread on the kitchen counter.
What is loaf?
What does the prefix non- mean?
What is not?
Bessie Coleman learned how to fly airplanes. Which vocabulary word could describe her?
What is an aviatrix?
Spell the word for food eaten at breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
What is meal?
This word means a female airplane pilot.
What is an aviatrix?
We followed the hiking ______ through the woods.
What is trail?
What does the prefix mis- mean?
What is wrong, badly, or incorrectly?
Which word would Bessie Coleman need to show that she had official permission to fly?
What is a license?
Spell the word that means to talk or say something.
What is speak?
This is an official document or card that gives someone permission to do something, such as fly an airplane.
What is a license?
The little ______ jumped near the pond.
What is toad?
Which word means writing about real events?
A. biplane
B. nonfiction
C. aviatrix
D. pier
What is B. nonfiction?
Bessie Coleman flew early airplanes. Which vocabulary word names an airplane with two sets of wings?
What is a biplane?
Spell the word for bread that has been browned by heat.
What is toast?
This type of writing tells about real people, real events, and facts.
What is nonfiction?
1. I washed my hands with ______.
2. We sat beside the ______ and watched the water.
1. soap
2. stream
If someone misinterprets your directions, what happened?
A. They followed them perfectly.
B. They understood them incorrectly.
C. They wrote them down.
D. They ignored them.
What is B. They understood them incorrectly?
If you read a book containing true facts about Bessie Coleman's life, would it be fiction or nonfiction?
What is nonfiction?
Spell the word that means to stop or come to an end.
What is cease?
This word means to understand or explain something incorrectly.
What is misinterpret?
Complete all three:
1. season
2. braid
3. speak
Break the word nonfiction into its prefix and base word. Then explain what it means.
What is non + fiction? The prefix non- means “not,” so nonfiction is writing that is not fiction and is based on facts or real people and events.
Solve all four clues:
1. aviatrix
2. biplane
3. license
4. misinterpret