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Compound Words
Where do I divide?
Schwa Happens
Blend vs. Digraph
Multisyllable Words
100
If you take me apart, each of my parts will make a real word that can stand on it's own.
What is a compound word?
100
Is it shu---pnest or shup-nest?
What is shup-nest?
100
The symbol for schwa.
What is an upsidedown "e"?
100
You can hear each of my sounds individually--sometimes in a double or a triple.
What is a blend?
100
In looking at really long words you can take off the beginnings and endings of words to get the base word.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
200
I am a blazing home or a place for those who treat blazing homes.
What are housefires and firehouses?
200
Is it chinf---rob? or chin---frob?
What is chin-frob?
200
Schwa takes on this sound no matter how the word is spelled.
What is short "u" as in up?
200
Two letters one sound--you hear it in the meaning of my label.
What is a digraph?
200
Pronounce this word correctly: subcontracting
What is sub-con-tract-ing?
300
I am a deliverer or dairy beverages who is of the male persuasion.
What is a milkman?
300
Is it con-timpt or cont--impt?
What is con-timpt?
300
True or false--Schwa happens at the beginning of a word.
What is false--schwa happens at the end of a word.
300
By now you know 5 of me.
What are wh, ch, ck, th, sh?
300
I am a writing instrument, a male and a vessel that travels in the sea. I also mean either good or bad this_________ (it's not your breath).
What is penmanship?
400
I am not made from grains from the beach nor am I a Halloween creature--however I am in a cold lunch.
What is a sandwich?
400
Is it thip-nest or thi-pne-st?
What is thip-nest?
400
Name the types of vowels that schwa affects?
What are--"a," "e," "i," "o," and "u."
400
Identify the blends in these words: distracting, publishing and grasping
What are the following parts: distracting---str, ct publishing---bl grasping---gr, sp
400
If you have 5 babies all at one time you have these.
What are quintuplets?
500
I am another name breeze + a season literally but I really mean some unexpected good luck.
What is a windfall?
500
Divide this word---transatlantic.
What is trans--at--lan--tic?
500
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! Listen to the following words identify the words that are schwa words (there are 4).
What are signal, tinsel, chapel and havoc?
500
I am the only digraph that cannot begin a word.
What is ck?
500
If you are a kinesthetic learner or have anesthesia, what does the "esthetic" part mean?
What is having to do with the body?