More High Frequency Words

How to Learn a New Word

  • • Look at the word.

  • • Listen to the word.

  • • Listen to the word in a sentence. What does it mean?

  • • Say the word.

  • • Spell the word.

  • • Say the word again.

Review High Frequency Words

Read the words aloud. Which word goes in the sentence?

timetry
yearyoung
beenneed

  • 1. Plants take ____ to grow.

  • 2. Some plants grow well all ____ long.

  • 3. All plants ____ sun and water.

Learn New Words

Study these words. Say them as whole words when you read.

indoorsAna planted the seeds indoors, by her kitchen window.
warmIt was winter, but her kitchen was warm and sunny.
healthySoon, she had strong and healthy seedlings.
coldBy the end of April, the cold weather was over.
outdoorsIt was time to put her plants outdoors in the yard.

Practice

4. Make flash cards. Write each new word on one side of a card. On the other side, write a sentence with the word. Leave the new word blank. Above the sentence draw a picture of the sentence. Work with a partner. Guess the word for the sentences on each other’s cards.

    Example

  • 4. illustration of the front and back of a word flash card for the word indoors

Write each sentence. Add the missing word.

    Example

  • 5. Sunflower seeds can be planted outdoors in the garden at the start of spring.

  • 5. Sunflower seeds can be planted _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in the garden at the start of spring.

  • 6. Other seeds must be planted inside the house. The pots stay _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for a few weeks.

  • 7. In the summer when it gets _ _ _ _ outside, you can put the young plants in your garden.

8.–9. Find the 2 words you didn’t use. Write sentences with those words.

    Example

  • 8. It is too cold to grow vegetables in the winter!