Vowel Starters
Homonyms
A?
Anything Goes
Rough Stuff
100
How do you spell the word *** that means a dull uncomfortable ongoing pain as in the sentence, I have a bad head____, so I took an aspirin.
What is A-C-H-E?
100
Don't put your coat ***; put it over here. Which one of the three homonyms that sound like "there, their or they're" is correct for this sentence.
What is T-H-E-R-E?
100
Spell the word that is the antonym of the word "Question."
What is A-N-S-W-E-R?
100
Say the four parts, or components, of reading?
What are phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension?
100
The number of syllables in the word impossible.
What is four?
200
If something isn't hard to do, then it might be ****. In the sentence, I really understand that math and the test was very *** for me.
What is E-A-S-Y?
200
"Sound alike" words, both with a different spelling would fit in both sentences: I like to *** blue jeans on Friday, and *** did you buy your jeans? (Spell both words correctly.)
What is W-E-A-R and W-H-E-R-E?
200
To "do all of the time, forever, never stopping." As in the sentence following sentence, I walk the dog at lunch time every single day. I never miss a day. I *** walk the dog at noon.
What is A-L-W-A-Y-S?
200
Say the word that means figuring out unknown words by sounding out what the letters and letter combinations. The reader uses *** to figure out difficult new words when reading.
What is phonics?
200
Name four compound words.
What are ...? (Answers will vary.)
300
This word means "One time," as in the start to many fairy tales. *** upon a time, a giant lived in a castle.
What is O-N-C-E?
300
In the correct order spell the "There" When I went to *** house, I saw the decorations out *** in the yard. I think *** having a Halloween party.
What is T-H-E-I-R, T-H-E-R-E, and T-H-E-Y'-R-E?
300
This word means "totally" or "for sure." As in the sentence I will come to the party; I promise. I *** will be there.
What is A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y?
300
The preferred reading strategy you can use to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is using context clues?
300
Using though, thought, through, thorough fill in the sentence with the correctly spelled word in the correct order. I *** we were *** with the assignment even *** my extremely short essay answers weren't very ***.
What is T-H-O-U-G-H-T, T-H-R-O-U-G-H, T-H-O-U-G-H and T-H-O-R-O-U-G-H?
400
Use context clues to figure out the spelling demon fits into this sentence: No, you can't get a pony for Christmas. What would you like *** of a pony?
What is I-N-S-T-E-A-D?
400
Spell correctly and in the correct order the word pair that fits in this sentence. The *** man on channel 5 wouldn't tell us *** or not it was going to rain.
What is W-E-A-T-H-E-R and W-H-E-T-H-E-R?
400
Want an "A" in this class? Know the four parts of reading you need to master in this class.
What are phonic, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension?
400
Every word (and syllable) must have one of these.
What is a vowel?
400
When the syllable ends in a consonant, the vowel is________.
What is short?
500
Use context and correct spelling to figure out this word: If two people divide something, it was divided "between" them. If several people divide something, it is divided ____ the people.
What is A-M-O-N-G?
500
In the correct order spell the homonym pair that completes this sentence: The irritable doctor was losing his ____ with his ____>
What is P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E and P-A-T-I-E-N-T-S?
500
Want an "A"? List at least four of the five strategies for figuring out unfamiliar words you come across in reading.
What are context clues, phonics (including syllables and word patterns), morphology (breaking words into affixes and roots), use a dictionary, ask someone?
500
Identify the phonics rule that the following words are examples of: cake, bike, rode, face, and tune
What is the silent "e" rule?
500
Identify the phonics rule that the following words are examples of:boat, beat, treat, eat, pain, grow.
What is voice vowels?
M
e
n
u