<A-1>

1. air		A gas that people breathe.
2. artist		A building divided into sets of rooms in which people live.
3. bananas		Small insects with six legs.
4. ants		A person who makes art, such as a painting, sculpture, or music.
5. apples		A very young child.
6. baseball		Parts of the body between the shoulders and hands.
7. arms		Animals with flat tails that build dams.
8. astronaut		A washing of the body with soap and water.
9. baby		Long curved fruit that grows in bunches.
10. bath		A kind of fruit.
11. beaver		A sport with a bat and a ball.
12. apartment building		A person who travels in space.

<A-2>

air	ants	apartment building	apple	arm	artist
astronaut	baby	banana	baseball	bath	beaver

1. We picked _____________________ off the tree.

2. The fan blows ______________ on us.

3. Andy carries his books in his ________________.

4. There are many ____________________________ in a big city.

5. An _____________ is a small bug.

6. Some ___________________ have walked on the moon.

7. There are nine players on a _____________________ team.

8. The ______________ is six months old.

9. Monkeys ate ____________________.

10. Please give the dog a ___________________.

11 The _______________ is painting a picture.

12. The _________________ build a dam in the river.

<B-1>

13. born		To take or hold something that is moving.
14. bird		Great in size
15. catch		Puts together.
16. boats		A food made with flour and water and baked in an oven.
17. builds		The part of the face below the mouth
18. city		A baby chicken
19. class		An animal with feathers and wings
20. big		Small ships that carry people and things on the water.
21. chin		A group of students who learn together.
22. bread		Printed pages held together with thread or glue.
23. books		A place where many people live and work.
24. chick		Brought to life

<B-2>

big	bird	boat	book	born	bread
build	catch	chick	chin	city	class

1. We sailed our ______________ on the river.

2. There is a ____________ box by the door.

3. My mother throws the ball, and I ______________ it.

4. I read some ______________ about dinosaurs.

5. Robin is one kind of __________________.

6. Chicago is a big _______________.

7. I have many friends in my first-grade _________________.

8. A ________________ hatches from an egg.

9. A long beard grows from grandfather's ________________.

10. Patty ___________________ with blocks.

11. The day I was _____________ is my birthday.

12. I eat peanut butter and jelly on my _______________.

<C-1>

25. earth		The neighborhood where people live and work.
26. community		A smooth shell with a baby animal inside
27. dinner		From a high place to a low place.
28. explore		To take food into the body.
29. dreams		A meal eaten in the evening.
30. eggs		To go to a place you have never seen before.
31. cubs		An animal that has four legs and fur and that bark.
32. down		Pictures or stories that happen in your mind while you are sleeping.
33. cook		To heat food to make it ready to eat.
34. eat		Dirt or soil.
35. dog		Plants grown for food.
36. crops		The young of an animal such as a bear, a wolf, or a lion.

<C-2>

community	cook	crop	cubs	dinner	dog
down	dream	earth	eat	egg	explore

1. My father and I __________________ breakfast every morning.

2. The ______________ barked.

3. Many different people live in our _________________________.

4. We ______________ lunch at school.

5. Young bear ______________ like to play.

6. Astronauts __________________ space.

7. The ball bounced up and __________________.

8. _______________ are grown on a farm.

9. The hen sits on her ________________.

10. I have good __________________ when I sleep.

11. The ______________ in the garden is good for growing plants.

12. When Dad comes home, we eat __________________.

<D-1>

37. eyes		Something you like to do; a good time.
38. good-bye		The season between summer and winter.
39. fire station		Parts of the body with which to see.
40. fun		Repaired or made something work again.
41. farm		A part of a plant that is good to eat.
42. female		What you say when someone leaves.
43. fruit		Groups of people who are related to each other.
44. family		Parts of a plant that bloom.
45. fix(ed)		To travel through the air.
46. fly		A woman or a girl; opposite of male.
47. fall		A place where firefighters work and where their equipment is kept.
48. flower(s)		An area where animals and crops are raised.

<D-2>

eye(s)	fall	family (families)	farm	female	fire station
fix(ed)	flower(s)	fly	fruit	fun	good-bye

1. The two _____________________ went on a trip together.

2. I can see many things with my __________________.

3. My sister is a __________________. So is my mother.

4. Some leaves change colors in the _________________.

5. I say ________________ to my friends when I leave school.

6. Cows, horses, and pigs live on a ________________.

7. Tara and I have _____________ playing together.

8. Bananas and grapes are ______________________.

9. Firefighters work at a _________________________.

10. Marco likes to ________________ a kite in the park.

11. Ana picked __________________ from the garden.

12. Grandfather ____________________ my broken bike.

<E-1>

49. help		A large animals that lives near the waters of Africa.
50. hen(s)		Parts of your body with fingers at the end of your arms.
51. high		Landforms that rise above the land around them.
52. happy		Land with water all around it.
53. hand(s)		A fruit that grows in bunches in a vine.
54. house		A greeting used when you meet someone.
55. island		To work together to do what is needed.
56. hello		A building where people live.
57. grape(s)		The earth; land.
58. hill(s)		Feeling good; having good feelings.
59. hippo		Female chickens.
60. ground		Far above the ground.

<E-2>

grape(s)	ground	hand(s)	happy	hello	help
hen(s)	high	hill(s)	hippo	house	island

1. Adam fell on the __________________ and hurt his arm.

2. I smile when I am ___________________.

3. I ate some ___________________ with my lunch.

4. _______________ lay eggs.

5. We raise our __________________ to ask questions.

6. A _______________ is a very large animal.

7. Planes fly _______________ in the air.

8. I live in a yellow _________________.

9. My neighbor says _________________ to me every day.

10. The _______________ has many beaches.

11. These _______________ are not as tall as mountains.

12. Mother asked me to ________________ her bake cookies.

<F-1>

61. like		To feel good about someone or something.
62. knee(s)		Forgot where something is, or cannot be found.
63. lion		Work someone does.
64. kick		A large, powerful animal like a cat that lives in Africa.
65. lost		To make a sound that shows that something is funny or makes you happy.
66. library		To hit something with your foot.
67. listen		The parts of your legs that help them bend.
68. job		A place where many books are kept.
69. learn		The parts of a plant that makes food for it.
70. laugh		To hear or pay attention to.
71. leaf(leaves)		To get to know about something.
72. lose		To be unable to win.

<F-2>

job	kick	knee(s)	laugh	learn	leaf(leaves)
library	like	lion	listen	lose/lost	lose/lost

1. Bend your ____________, and then jump up.

2. Ms. Kane has a _________________ as a teacher.

3. I read books at the _______________________.

4. Lee ____________________ at all my jokes.

5. Gary likes to ______________ the ball hard.

6. Many plants have green ___________________.

7. I ________________ to draw pictures.

8. We __________________ many things at school.

9. I _____________ the key to my diary, and I don't know where it is.

10. The children saw a _______________ at the zoo.

11. Players are not happy when they ____________ a game.

12. ___________________ to the music.

<G-1>

73. maybe		Inside of something.
74. man		A short sleep during the day.
75. loud		To like someone or something very much.
76. mix		Causes something to do.
77. middle		Having a great or strong sound.
78. love		A bright object that goes around Earth.
79. mountain		To put different things together.
80. nap		Landforms that are much higher than the land around them.
81. male		A man or a boy; opposite of female.
82. melt		A grown-up male.
83. moon		Possibly; perhaps.
84. make		To change from a solid to a liquid.

<G-2>

loud	love	make	male	man	maybe
melt	middle	mix	moon	mountain	nap

1. I heard a ________________ noise when the car went by.

2. Jiro __________________ salad for dinner.

3. A boy grows up to be a _________________.

4. I really care for my mother. I _______________ her.

5. Marco is a boy. He is a ________________.

6. My mom is the lady in the ____________________.

7. The ice will ______________ in the sun.

8. ________________ something good will happen today.

9. There is snow at the top of the ____________________.

10. We _____________ flour and milk for pancakes.

11. Grandpa takes a ____________ in his chair.

12. I can see the __________________ in the night sky.

<H-1>

85. picture		An animal that is kept as a companion.
86. okay		Anything alive that is not an animal.
87. pet		To have fun.
88. plant		All right; fine.
89. old		Opposite for inside.
90. plum		Part of the face used for breathing.
91. nose		To make a picture or design with a paints.
92. paint		Having been around a long time; not new.
93. park		An outdoor place to have fun.
94. play		Small red or purple fruit.
95. outside		Paintings, drawings, or photographs that show what something looks like.
96. playground		A place where people can enjoy being outside.

<H-2>

nose	okay	old	outside	paint	park
pet	picture	plant	play	playground	plum

1. I wear a coat when it is cold _______________.

2. When I have a cold, I blow my ________________.

3. We will ________________ the fence.

4. Our school ________________ has slides and swings.

5. Another word for yes is ____________________.

6. We can play on the grass in the ______________.

7. I ________________ games with my sister.

8. We wore ___________ clothes to paint the fence.

9. The ____________ grows because we water it everyday.

10. The _______________ taste sweet.

11. An artist draws ___________________.

12. I like to hug my _______________.

<I-1>

97. ride		Dish of cut up vegetables or fruit, sometimes served with dressing.
98. pretend		Frightened.
99. salad		To sit in or on something that moves.
100. river		To make believe.
101. rock		Parts of a plant that grow down into the ground.
102. sail		A wide path of moving water with land on both sides.
103. rain		To press against something in order to move it.
104. root		To travel on water in a boat by means of wind.
105. read		Hard objects that make up the earth.
106. push		Water that falls from the clouds.
107. rule		To look at words and know what they mean.
108. scared		Directions that tell how things must be done.

<I-2>

pretend	push	rain	read	ride	river
rock	root	rule	sail	salad	scared

1. Mother will _____________ the baby carriage.

2. We saw a lot of fish in the ___________________.

3. Let's _________________ we are birds.

4. The _____________ made the streets wet.

5. The library has many books for us to _________________.

6. The ship hit some ___________________ and sank.

7. The plant's ________________ grow under the ground.

8. Jim and Bob _____________ their bicycles to school.

9. The dream _______________ me so much that I woke up.

10. The _______________ is made of lots of lettuce.

11. We ___________ the boat across the river.

12. You must follow the __________________ to play the game.

<J-1>

109. spring		A place where students learn.
110. school		White flakes of frozen water that fall from the sky.
111. short		The season between winter and summer.
112. sky		The parts of a plant that can grow into a new plant.
113. sea		The air above the ground.
114. snow		Water that covers Earth; an ocean.
115. soccer		A covering for the foot.
116. small		Not long or tall.
117. seed		To divide into parts and give others some.
118. shoe		Showed a happy look.
119. smile		A sport played by kicking a round ball into a goal.
120. share		Not large in size.

<J-2>

school	sea	seed	share	shoe	short
sky	small	smile	snow	soccer	spring

1. I am learning to read and write at ____________________.

2. The ______________ is blue with no clouds.

3. A dime is a _______________ coin.

4. This ______________ goes on the left foot.

5. I __________________ because I was happy.

6. There are big waves in the ____________.

7. In the winter, we play in the ___________.

8. Hank will ______________ his cookies with me.

9. The weather is warm in the _________________.

10. Lane is _______________ for his age.

11. The ______________ will grow into flowers.

12. Don't touch the ball with your hands when you play ________________.

<K-1>

121. sun		A place where goods are sold.
122. toe		To draw out; to make longer or wider.
123. store		To speak to another person.
124. team		The star around which Earth travels.
125. stretch		A machine that play pictures and sounds.
126. tall		The five parts at the end of the foot.
127. talk		Words that tell about something real or made-up.
128. teacher		A group of people who work or play together.
129. three		With the most power.
130. story		High.
131. television		One more than two.
132. strongest		A person whose job is to instruct others.

<K-2>

store	story	stretch	strongest	sun	talk
tall	teacher	team	television	three	toe

1. The _____________ gives us heat and light.

2. Our _____________ scored five points.

3. You can buy shoes in a _________________.

4. Our family watches ____________________ together after dinner.

5. The ________________ weight lifter will win a prize.

6. I _____________ to my cousins on the telephone.

7. My ________________ helps me learn.

8. We read many _________________ from a book.

9. There are _______________ buildings in the city.

10. I __________________ my body when I wake up in the morning.

11. I have five __________________ on each foot.

12. The American flags has _________________ colors.

<L-1>

133. winter		Not grown or cared for by people.
134. try		The day after today.
135. tool		To finish first; to be the best in a game or contest.
136. use		A period of time; 7 days in a row.
137. win		Instruments used for doing work when held in the hand.
138. tomorrow		To work to make something happen.
139. town		To put something into service or to do work with something.
140. two		With each other; in a group.
141. wall		A small city or place where people live and work.
142. wild		The season between fall and spring.
143. together		A side of a room.
144. week		One more than one.

<L-2>

together	tomorrow	tool	town	try	two
use	wall	week	wild	win	winter

1. Cody and Sam like to play ball _________________.

2. ______________ to catch the ball.

3. I ________________ a towel to dry my hands.

4. The day after today is ___________________.

5. A _______________ is smaller than a city.

6. There were ________________ flowers in the field.

7. My father uses _________________ to fix things.

8. In the _________________, we play in the snow.

9. Who will ____________ the football game?

10. There are 7 days in a ______________.

11. She put a poster on the _________________.

12. I have ____________ ears.

<2A-1>

145. wish		The part of the day between noon and evening.
146. young		From long ago.
147. airplane		Come into view.
148. ancient		Having lived a short time.
149. always		Hope for or want something to happen.
150. asleep		The place where everyone lives; Earth.
151. across		Every time.
152. world		A machine that carries people through the air.
153. amazed		A job or something you do that takes energy.
154. appear		From one side to the other.
155. work		Sleeping.
156. afternoon		Filled with wonder.

<2A-2>

wish	work	world	young	across	afternoon
airplane	always	amazed	ancient	appear	asleep

1. The _________________ has many countries.

2. The ____________ tribe left pictures. of animals on the cave wall.

3. I ____________ I could play in the park everyday.

4. School lets out at 3:00 in the _________________.

5. The kitten is _________________.

6. The bridge went ______________ the river.

7. The birds ________________ in the tree each morning.

8. Sandy fell ______________ in the chair.

9. She rides the bus to school. It _______________ comes at 7:00 in the morning.

10. _________________ fly many people from place to place.

11. Mother thinks gardening is hard _____________.

12. She was ________________ by how fast the horse ran.

<2B-1>

157. astronaut		The covering of a tree.
158. bark		A large piece of soft cloth used as a cover in bed.
159. breathe		People who travel in space.
160. awake		To take air into your lungs.
161. barn		A store that sells books and other things to read.
162. battle		Very nice to look at or to hear.
163. blanket		A farm building that is a place for cows and horses to live in.
164. bike		Not asleep
165. blue		A fight or struggle.
166. bright		Giving off a lot of light.
167. bookstore		A shorter name for bicycles, machines with two wheels and a seat.
168. beautiful		Sad or discouraged

<2B-2>

astronaut	awake	bark	barn	battle	beautiful
bike	blanket	blue	bookstore	breathe	bright

1. The barking dog kept Anna ______________ at night.

2. Julian felt ___________ when he lost his backpack.

3. Noah liked to buy paperback books at the __________________.

4. The new spacecraft is carrying three __________________ to the moon.

5. We ______________ air.

6. The painting will be _______________ when it is finished.

7. It is always a _____________ giving my dog a bath.

8. Mother covered me with a __________________ and kissed me good night.

9. The _________ of a birch tree peels off easily.

10. The farmer feeds his horses in the _______________.

11. The lamp is so _________________ that it lights up the room.

12. Jane and Lisa rode their ___________ to the store.

<2C-1>

169. cousin		To move something from one place to another.
170. broken		Doing many things.
171. carry		A land with its own people and government.
172. clever		To honor a special person or day.
173. country		Damaged or ruined.
174. busy		Good at learning and solving problems.
175. celebrate		Free from dirt.
176. computer		A structure such as a house or a barn.
177. clean		A talk.
178. conversation		Having a low temperature.
179. building		Machines that can find, save and put together information.
180. cold		The child of your aunt or uncle.

<2C-2>

broken	building	busy	carry	celebrate	clean
clever	cold	computer	conversation	country	cousin

1. The library is the newest _________________ in our town.

2. Jorgo is so ___________ that he even knew how to fix the clock.

3. The pencil is _______________ into two pieces.

4. Spain is a _______________ in Europe.

5. My family always has a party to __________________ Grandpa's birthday.

6. Please ____________ the gift bags from the car to the house.

7. Ants are always ______________ looking for food.

8. Molly had a _______________ with Aunt Donna on the telephone.

9. Students use _______________ to help them with school work.

10. Victor is Aunt Maria's son and my ________________.

11. We washed the muddy dog so he would be ___________ again.

12. It is _____________ outside in the winter.

<2D-1>

181. create		A little bit wet.
		To go out of sight.
182. cure
183. damp		To make well.
184. dangerous		A drawing that shows the parts of something.
185. disappear		Patterns made up of shapes and colors.
186. decorate		Full of danger.
187. diagram		A wall built to hold back the water of a stream or river.
188. desert		To make something new
189. discover		Broke into tiny pieces.
190. crumble		Found or learned about something.
191. design		Made more beautiful.
192. dam		A very dry place where most kinds of plants will not grow.

<2D-2>

create	crumble	cure	dam	damp	dangerous
decorate	desert	design	diagram	disappear	discover

1. The medicine will ____________ the baby's sickness.

2. Dad _______________ his lost shoe under the bed.

3. The cookie _______________ into little bits in the baby's hands.

4. A cactus grows in the _____________ because it likes hot, dry places.

5. Our class will ________________ pictures that go with the story.

6. The clothes in the dryer are not dry. They are still ______________.

7. The chef _______________ the cakes with frosting.

8. The ____________ was built to control floods.

9. The squirrels run up the tree and __________________ into a hole.

10. Jordan drew a _________________ showing where everything is in his bedroom.

11. Julio made a ________________ with colored circles.

12. It is ________________ to be outside during a bad storm.

<2E-1>

193. electricity		A person who helps a writer make his or her work better.
194. distant		Buildings in which things are made or put together with machines.
195. editor		Carried or moved by the wind or water.
196. factory		Far away.
197. family		A kind of energy that makes lights, refrigerators, and computers work.
198. drift		The part of the day between afternoon and night.
199. engine		To look at closely and carefully.
200. evening		People trained to help sick people get well.
201. examine		The whole time; through a course of time.
202. favorite		A group of people who live together.
203. doctor		Liked best of all.
204. during		Machine with parts that work together to make something work or move.

<2E-2>

distant	doctor	drift	during	editor	electricity
engine	evening	examine	factory	family	favorite

1. Many ____________________ work at the hospital.

2. Hair fell on the floor _____________ my haircut.

3. We saw a _________________ ship on the horizon.

4. Apples are Matt's ___________________ fruit.

5. My ____________ has fun eating outside at a picnic.

6. The hot air balloon _____________ across the sky.

7. The __________________ used machines to make tools.

8. The dentist will ______________ the children's teeth.

9. ___________________ makes the bulb in a lamp light up.

10. The _____________ helped the writer make his book the best it could be.

11. The sun sets in the ____________________.

12. The ____________ must be fixed before we can drive a car.

<2F-1>

205. feed		Anything that is eaten by animals or people to help them grow and live.
206. finish		To give food to.
207. food		A pot filled with dirt and used for growing plants.
208. flight		Come to the end of something.
209. friend		Moved or traveled through the air.
210. flowerpot		A kind of open wall built outdoors.
211. fought		A large piece of land with few or no trees.
212. fence		Shone or glowed with uneven light.
213. flew		A trip in an aircraft.
214. field		A piece of cloth with colors and designs that represents a country.
215. flicker		Someone you like and who likes you.
216. flag		Struggled or battled against someone.

<2F-2>

feed	fence	field	finish	flag	flew(fly)
flicker	flight	flowerpot	food	fought(fight)	friend

1. Our neighbors put a ____________ around their yard to keep their puppy safe.

2. Mother shops for _____________ at the supermarket.

3. We ____________ our dog in the morning and in the evening.

4. Mother grew some herbs in a __________________.

5. When the wind blew, the candlelight ____________________.

6. We ___________ our kites yesterday, but there was no wind today.

7. The _____________ behind the barn is covered with grass and flowers.

8. My ____________ helps me with my homework.

9. Mom and Jena ______________ each other with pillows.

10. Mark _____________ his lunch before going out to play.

11. Today an airplane __________________ can take several hours.

12. The state _____________ flew over the capital building.

<2G-1>

217. gentle		Main roads used by fast moving-cars and trucks.
218. history		Having or showing good feelings.
219. happy		Having good health.
220. holiday		Quiet or kind.
221. heat		To get bigger in size.
222. healthy		Lead the way.
223. grow		An aircraft without wings that has a rotor on top.
224. guide		Feeling good about something; happy.
225. helicopter		To come out of an egg.
226. highway		The story that has happened to a person or a country in the past.
227. glad		Warmth.
228. hatch		Special days on which people do not go to school or work.

<2G-2>

gentle	glad	grow	guide	happy	hatch
healthy	heat	helicopter	highway	history	holiday

1. I feel ____________ when I get a hug from my mother.

2. I am ______________ when I visit my grandmother.

3. Be ________________ when you hold the kitten.

4. We do not get mail on most ___________________.

5. Water and sun will help the plant ____________.

6. Many students enjoy learning the ___________ of their country

7. The campers felt the ___________ from the campfire.

8. We will get there faster if we travel on the _________________.

9. The plant did not look _________________.

10. Raul _____________ the tourists around the state park.

11. The propeller on a _________________ lifts it up in the air.

12. Chicks ____________ from eggs.

<2H-1>

229. hot		Needing or wanting food.
230. horrible		Facts.
231. husband		Land that has water all around it.
232. island		Having a high temperature.
233. hungry		Freedom from being told by others what to do.
234. illustrate		Having much value or meaning.
235. information		A man married to a woman.
236. juicy		Very unpleasant or very bad.
237. ladder		Make pictures to go with a story
238. hospital		Having a lot of juice.
239. independence		A set of steps two long pieces of wood for climbing to reach something.
240. important		A building in which injured or sick people are cared for.

<2H-2>

horrible	hospital	hot	hungry	husband	illustrate
important	independence	information	island	juicy	ladder

1. Be careful when you eat soup. It is ____________.

2. The colonists won their __________________ from the king.

3. The pile of rotting garbage had a ______________ smell.

4. There were sandy beaches all around the __________________.

5. This is Mr. Jones. He is the ______________ of Mrs. Jones.

6. We ate the ___________ oranges for breakfast.

7. Doctors and nurses take care of sick people in the _________________.

8. The library has books with ________________ about many things.

9. We climbed a _______________ to reach the attic.

10. I am eating when I am ________________.

11. It is _______________ to Blake to get good grades in school.

12. Sharon _______________ her brother's stories with funny pictures.

<2I-1>

241. machine		Very unhappy or sick.
242. mound		An object with moving parts that does some kind of work.
243. mail carrier		Something given to sick people or animals to help them get well.
244. neighborhood		A small hill or pile of earth or rocks.
245. lamp		People who carry and give out mail.
246. lightening		People trained in library work.
247. market		Something used to make dark places bright.
248. miserable		A sudden flash or light in the sky during a storm.
249. librarian		A small part of a city or town where people live.
250. mistake		Rules by a state or a country for all the people who lives there to follow.
251. medicine		An error.
252. law		A store where goods are sold.

<2I-2>

lamp	law	librarian	lightening	machine	mail carrier
market	medicine	miserable	mistake	mound	neighborhood

1. It was dark, so we turned on the ______________ to get some light.

2. She made a _____________ on the spelling test today.

3. People use ______________ to make the work go faster.

4. Our library has ______________ to help people find and check out books.

5. Sometimes ___________ ________________ bring packages to my house.

6. We must follow the ___________ to live safely.

7. The child's sore throat made him feel __________________.

8. The ________________ struck the tree and split it in two.

9. Our ___________________ is a quiet place to live.

10. There was a fire ant ______________ near the side of the house.

11. Uncle Victor went to the drugstore to buy some ______________.

12. The ___________ near my house sells fresh fruit and vegetables.

<2J-1>

253. party		Groups of people marching together down a street.
254. piece		Possibly, maybe
255. perhaps		Wanting to play; full of fun.
256. nurse		A special event at which people have a good time together.
257. picnic		A colored liquid that is brushed onto something to color it.
258. picture		People who help doctors care for people.
259. poke		A part of something.
260. paint		Pointed top of a mountain.
261. playful		Thrust or stuck out.
262. parade		The person who flies an airplane or helicopter.
263. peak		Paintings, drawings, or photographs that show a scene, person, object, or design.
264. pilot		Meals that people share outdoors.

<2J-2>

nurse	paint	parade	party	peak	perhaps
picnic	picture	piece	pilot	playful	poke

1. Da-Un brushed green ______________ onto his clay bowl.

2. The ______________ landed the plane safely

3. The ________________ bandaged my cut finger.

4. My family had a ______________ to celebrate my grandma's birthday.

5. A mouse ___________ its nose out of the hole.

6. Harry tied a ____________ of string to the kite.

7. We looked up and saw snow on the mountain _____________.

8. The high school band marched in all the _________________.

9. Dogs are ___________ when they are healthy. They like to jump and run.

10. During the summer, we had several _________________ at the park.

11. My sister Daisy has _________________ of her friends on her locker.

12. It is raining today, but ____________ it will be sunny for the picnic tomorrow.

<2K-1>

265. red		A covered structure at the entrance to a building.
266. pottery		A pocket.
267. porch		A place where mail is taken and stamps are sold.
268. product		Objects such as dishes and pots made from clay and hardened by heat.
269. railroad		to figure out what will happen before it does.
270. post office		To get ready.
271. pouch		Things that are grown of made.
272. predict		The trains and tracks that connect cities for travel.
273. prepare		People who protect other people and make sure people follow laws.
274. quite		The bright color of a ripe tomato.
275. police officer		Made liquid go from one container to another.
276. pour		Very much; more than usual.

<2K-2>

police officer	porch	post office	pottery	pouch	pour
predict	prepare	product	quite	railroad	red

1. The farmer could ______________ when it would rain.

2. The artist shaped the clay to make ________________.

3. Our city has many _____________ ______________ to keep us safe.

4. The factory makes many _______________ used for sports.

5. Aunt Jane likes to sit on the __________ and read.

6. Charles helps his mother _____________ dinner for the family.

7. When the ______________ came to our town, many people moved here.

8. I went to the ___________ __________ to mail my letters.

9. The kangaroo carries its young in a ________________.

10. Jenny ________________ a glass of milk.

11. __________ is the color used for STOP signs.

12. Robbie stays after school to help his teacher ____________ often.

<2L-1>

277. research		Free from danger or harm.
278. scientist		A quick drawing without details.
279. slippery		Careful study.
280. safe		People whose job it is to learn about things.
281. sea		To travel in or something.
282. shine		A light fall of rain.
283. remember		The salt water that covers most of Earth.
284. sketch		To let everyone have some.
285. ride		Not happy; feeling sorrow.
286. shower		To give off light.
287. sad		Hard to stand on without sliding.
288. share		To find in your mind something from the past.

<2L-2>

remember	research	ride	sad	safe	scientist
sea	share	shine	shower	sketch	slippery

1. I am __________ when I have to leave my grandmother.

2. I never can _____________ telephone numbers.

3. I got wet walking home during the sudden rain _____________.

4. Dan and Rita ____________ their horses along the trail.

5. The writer did a lot of _______________ about cats before writing about them.

6. Marco and Steven are best friends. They _____________ everything.

7. The _______________ spent hours studying the movements of the ants.

8. My family keeps me _____________.

9. The stars _____________ brightly in the night sky.

10. Big ships can sail across the __________.

11. The artist made a quick ____________ of the plant.

12. Joey likes to slide on the ______________ ice.

<2M-1>

289. surprise		Water that has become a gas.
290. snuggle		To put in a large pile.
291. stack		An unknown person; somebody.
292. sometimes		Begin to grow.
293. strong		To hold close or lie close to; cuddle
294. steam		To make something turn quickly.
295. someone		Now and then; at times.
296. sprout		The ground in which plants grow.
297. spin		Be in a upright position or on one's feet.
298. stood (stand)		Different from others; important.
299. soil		Something not expected; a feeling of wonder.
300. special		Having lots of power to lift or move things; powerful.

<2M-2>

snuggle	soil	someone	sometimes	special	spin
sprout	stack	steam	stood (stand)	strong	surprise

1. The store keeper will _____________ the top to show how it works.

2. I _____________ with Mom when we read books.

3. The bookshelf once _______________ by the door.

4. I like to play outside, but ______________ I like to play inside.

5. I see _____________ at the door. I wonder who it is.

6. Becky watched the bean seed every day until it _______________.

7. My birthday is a ___________ day. It is important.

8. The gardener put ___________ into the pots before he planted the ivy.

9. It was a nice ___________ when Grandma and Grandpa came for dinner.

10. The donkey is _____________. He can carry a heavy load.

11. When water boils, it becomes _______________.

12. Uncle Jake will __________ the firewood by the side of the house.

<2N-1>

301. terrible		To go from one place to another place to visit or for business.
302. throat		Very bad.
303. travel		To shake because of fear or cold.
304. tremble		The front part of the neck under the chin.
305. together		Twisted
306. umbrella		Group of people who work or play together.
307. tangled		Something that people carry to keep off rain or sun.
308. thought (think)		A loud crashing sound that follows lightning.
309. team		Something that gives unexpected pleasure.
310. tumble		Had an idea or believed or decided.
311. thunder		With each other.
312. treat		Fall down and roll about.

<2N-2>

tangled	team	terrible	thought (think)	throat	thunder
together	travel	treat	tremble	tumble	umbrella

1. A ____________ dream woke me up in the middle of the.

2. Mr. and Mrs Jullian carry _________________ wherever they go.

3. The ropes became _________________.

4. My fingers ______________ when I feel really cold.

5. Tiffany and Nina walked _______________.

6. Mark ______________ about what he wanted to buy for his birthday.

7. When I ate some dry crackers, they got stuck in my _____________.

8. He _______________ down the hill in the snow.

9. The loud noise that follows lightning is called __________________.

10. The two basketball ____________ had played against each other before.

11. We'll ____________ across the ocean on a ship.

12. For a ___________, Angela had a bowl of ice cream.

<2O-1>

313. waddle		A message that tries to sell you something.
314. vet		A person who has the job of baking.
315. advertisement		Sway from side to side in walking.
316. banner		A doctor for animals.
317. adult		What it is like outside.
318. weather		To feel that something bad will happen; to feel uneasy.
319. baker		A time for rest or fun away from work, study, or duties.
320. baby		A fully-grown person or animal.
321. uncle		Anything alive that is not a plant.
322. worry		The brother of you father or mother
323. animal		A very young child.
324. vacation		A piece of cloth or paper with a message written on it.

<2O-2>

uncle	vacation	vet	waddle	weather	worry
adult	advertisement	animal	baby	baker	banner

1. Let's go to the beach for our summer __________________.

2. The Sunday Newspaper has ________________ for lots of stores.

3. We helped our ______________ to fix his car.

4. Tadpoles turn into frogs as ____________.

5. Farmer Pierce asked the ____________ to give his horses a checkup.

6. Lisa will ____________ about her grade until she gets her test back.

7. It is no fun to wait for a bus in this rainy _____________.

8. The __________ on the front of the store said "Sale Today."

9. The duck _________________ over to the pond.

10. The _____________ flour to make bread.

11. Mammals, birds, fish and insects are all ________________.

12. Aunt Carole's new __________ is six months old today.

<3A-1>

325. celebrate		A game played by hitting a ball with a bat.
326. break		Filled with activity.
327. baseball		A block used for building.
328. candle		To honor a special event.
329. busy		A machine with two wheels, a handle bar, and pedals.
330. brick		To crack something open or into pieces.
331. bicycle		A long vehicle in which many people can ride.
332. brother		A stick of wax that burns.
333. bus		A container made of wood or grass.
334. catch		The young of the cow, elephant, whale, and some other animals.
335. basket		A boy with the same parents as another child.
336. calf		To get hold of something that has been moving.

<3A-2>

baseball	basket	bicycle	break	brick	brother
bus	busy	calf	candle	catch	celebrate

1. Henry rides his ______________ to school.

2. ______________ burn brightly at night when they are lit.

3. I got a new bat to use for playing _______________.

4. The two ____________ bought their mother a gift.

5. The chimney on the sides of our house is made of ___________.

6. Please ___________ the eggs into a bowl.

7. Mary sent a ___________ of fruit as a gift.

8. The baseball player made a dive to ___________ the ball.

9. John works at a ____________ store.

10. The _________ followed its mother around the farm.

11. My family _______________ birthdays with a special party.

12. The children rode in the school _________.

<3B-1>

337. character		A machine that helps people work with numbers, words, pictures and sounds.
338. country		A person or an animal in a story.
339. continent		A stick of colored wax used for drawing.
340. computer		A place with its own people and government.
341. crayon		One of the main land areas on the earth.
342. childhood		A object that shows the time.
343. clock		An outdoor space with walls on all sides.
344. cloud		The land next to the sea.
345. courtyard		The time when a person is young.
346. city		A board with a clip to hold papers.
347. coast		A white or gray shape in the sky.
348. clipboard		A large town.

<3B-2>

character	childhood	city	clipboard	clock	cloud
coast	computer	continent	country	courtyard	crayon

1. There are a lot of taxis in the ___________.

2. The palace _____________ had a small pond in the middle.

3. The ______________ in the story was a boy and a dog.

4. The United States is one of the _________________ in the North America.

5. Mama told funny stories about her _______________.

6. My alarm ___________ wakes me up every morning.

7. The gray ________________ in the sky mean rain is coming.

8. Use a ______________ to take notes on the field trip.

9. He uses his ____________ to type letters and messages.

10. There are many lighthouses on the _____________ of Maine.

11. Children like to color pictures with ________________.

12. The seven _____________ are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.

<3C-1>

349. crust		A person who buys something.
350. crop		The solid outside part of the earth.
351. customer		To break or spoil something.
352. dessert		A plant grown on a farm.
353. dance		Something that may cause harm.
354. damage		A wheel on older telephones that was turned over the numbers and letters to make a call.
355. delicious		To move the body to music.
356. danger		A person who stops traffic to help others cross the street safely.
357. dial		To ruin completely.
358. crossing guard		The young of the bear, lion, wolf, and some other animals.
359. destroy		Very good to taste.
360. cub		A sweet food eaten at the end of a meal.

<3C-2>

crop	crossing guard	crust	cub	customer	damage
dance	danger	delicious	dessert	destroy	dial

1. The earth's __________ lies under land and water.

2. Wheat is a ___________ grown in much of the world.

3. Telephone callers today push buttons instead of turning a _____________.

4. Holiday shopping brought a lot of _____________ to the mall.

5. The bear _________ stayed close to its mother.

6. Have a dish of ice cream for _______________.

7. ___________ ______________ stops cars so children can cross the street safely.

8. A washed out road is a ____________ to drivers

9. An earthquake _______________ the stairs.

10. Every Thanksgiving my family sits down to eat a ________________ dinner together.

11. Max liked to ___________ to the drums.

12. A hurricane can ____________ home near the ocean.

<3D-1>

361. different		The space between two things.
362. equipment		The planet on which we live.
363. enemy		Not the same; not alike
364. distance		A living thing that may hurt another living thing.
365. dust		A sudden event that needs action right away.
366. Earth		To float along in water or air.
367. environment		Tiny bits of dirt.
368. drift		A small shell with a baby animal in it
369. emergency		The finding of something that has never been seen before.
370. egg		Things needed for a special use.
371. discovery		A time when there is very little rain.
372. drought		The area in which a person or animal lives.

<3D-2>

different	discovery	distance	drift	drought	dust
Earth	egg	emergency	enemy	environment	equipment

1. The scientist was excited by his _____________ of an ancient statue.

2. The bird's _____________ may hatch soon.

3. Use a rag to wipe the ____________ off the table.

4. Green plants turned brown because of the _______________.

5. Green and blue are ______________ colors.

6. My cat thinks that a dog is her _____________.

7. The ____________ between the two towns is about fifty miles.

8. Put this camping _________________ in your backpack.

9. You can call 911 if you have an ______________ and need help.

10. We live on the planet called _____________.

11. Hot air balloons ___________ through the summer sky above the hills.

12. Big horn sheep live in a cold, rocky ____________________.

<3E-1>

373. filter		A holiday; a time for feasting and celebrating.
374. exhausted		Best-liked.
375. firework		A part of something.
376. festival		A short story that teaches a lesson.
377. firefighter		very tired.
378. favorite		A piece of cloth or paper used to remove dirt from water.
379. feature		To travel through a place to learn what it is like.
380. flower		Small rockets that explode with a loud noise and display colored sparks.
381. fable		A person whose job is to put out fires.
382. float		A special meal with much food.
383. explore		The colorful part of a plant that makes the seeds.
384. feast		To rest on top of the water.

<3E-2>

exhausted	explore	fable	favorite	feast	feature
festival	filter	firefighter	firework	float	flower

1. The characters in _______________ are usually animals.

2. Every spring, The field is filled with yellow _________________.

3. The baby's ______________, especially his red hair, made him look like his father.

4. We were ______________ from a long hike.

5. I hope my toy boat will _________________.

6. The visitors wanted to _____________ the cave.

7. The ________________ had to use a hose to put out the fire.

8. Americans have a ____________ on the holiday of Thanksgiving.

9. Jarod's ______________ fruit is an apple.

10. Our town holds a _______________ to celebrate the Fourth of July.

11. Everyone watched the ________________ on the Fourth of July.

12. The coffee dripped through the _____________ into the pot.

<3F-1>

385. gift		Very large.
386. friend		The green plant with narrow leaves.
387. grass		Something given.
388. ground		An area of land where flowers, vegetables, and other plants are grown.
389. giant		The soil of the earth's surface.
390. garden		Something very light that can fill a space but not be seen.
391. gas		The children of one's child or children.
392. grain		The foods and other things people buy to meet to their needs.
393. grandchildren		Someone you like and who likes you.
394. grocery(groceries)		A good time.
395. fun		A covering for the hand.
396. glove		A small bit of something.

<3F-2>

friend	fun	garden	gas	giant	gift
glove	grain	grandchildren	grass	grocery	ground

1. Marth and I had ___________ playing on the swing.

2. The ________________ had a party for their grandfather's birthday.

3. My _____________ likes the same games that I like.

4. The ____________ were wrapped in pretty paper.

5. Balloons that float are filled with a ___________ called helium.

6. Mr. Jordan grows all kinds of flowers in his ________________.

7. The roots of the plant are under the _________________.

8. The ___________ watermelon was the biggest I had seen.

9. Aunt Laura buys a lot of ________________ at the supermarket.

10. The children wore _____________ to keep their hands warm.

11. We like to play ball on the _______________.

12. ________________ of wheat are made into flour for making bread.

<3G-1>

397. highway		Fully grown.
398. hill		Made up in the mind and not real.
399. hide		A main road.
400. grown-up		A part of the land that rises above the land around it.
401. imaginary		To stay out of sight.
402. helmet		A building for people to live in.
403. house		Something used to make a food.
404. ingredient		A hard hat worn to protect the head from injury.
405. inventor		A place where sick people are cared for.
406. harvest		A large group of animals of the same kind.
407. hospital		The gatherings of crops.
408. herd		A person who makes something that has been never made before.

<3G-2>

grown-up	harvest	helmet	herd	hide	highway
hill	hospital	house	imaginary	ingredient	inventor

1. We read a story about an ________________ frog princess.

2. A woman is a _________________ girl.

3. These ______________ were built for big families.

4. Every bike rider should wear a _____________.

5. Sugar and flour are ___________________ in cookies.

6. The corn is tall and ready for the _______________.

7. Rolling ____________ surrounded the little town in the valley.

8. To play the game, everyone tries to ___________ where no one will look.

9. We saw a ____________ of wild horses in Montana.

10. An _______________ makes new things that people can use.

11. Doctors work at a ________________.

12. It is not safe to walk across a busy _________________.

<3G-1>

409. jungle		A room where food is prepared and cooked.
410. lemonade		A thick forest in warm, wet lands.
411. kitchen		To make a sound to show happy feeling.
412. layer		Land with water all around it.
413. lantern		Coming after the expected time.
414. island		A cases for a light with openings through which light can be seen.
415. late		A thickness or covering.
416. laugh		Work that is done to make money.
417. job		A place where scientists make tests.
418. large		To spring up from the ground.
419. laboratory		A drink made of lemon juice, sugar, and water.
420. jump		Big in size.

<3G-2>

island	job	jump	jungle	kitchen	laboratory
lantern	large	late	laugh	layer	lemonade

1. The _____________ was in the middle of the lake.

2. We were _____________ at the funny TV show.

3. Some scientists do experiments in a ___________________.

4. Monkeys live in the _____________.

5. Armand got a ___________ fixing cars.

6. Whales can be very _______________.

7. I like to ______________ rope with my friends.

8. The dishes are in the _______________.

9. Aunt Helen baked a cake with three _______________.

10. Maria missed the bus, so she was ____________ for school.

11. A glass of cold _________________ tastes good on a hot day.

12. _______________ help people see in the dark.

<3G-1>

421. librarian		A drawing that shows where things are.
422. money		The stuff of which a thing is made.
423. lizard		A person in charge of a library.
424. material		Something made by people to do work for them.
425. measure		Coins and paper bills made by a government and used to pay for things.
426. machine		A kind of reptile that has four legs and a long tail.
427. map		To find the exact amount size or size of something.
428. light		Open land where grass and wildflowers grow.
429. meadow		An area of land much higher than a hill.
430. mountain		A form of energy that we can see.
431. location		Having a large distance from end to end.
432. long		The place where something is.

<3G-2>

librarian	light	lizard	location	long	machine
map	material	meadow	measure	money	mountain

1. The sun and electric bulbs give off ____________

2. A baker ________________ sugar in a marked cup.

3. ______________ help you find books and information.

4. The top of the _____________ was white with snow.

5. Ten people sat on the ___________ table.

6. A ____________ is a reptile, and so is a turtle.

7. Sheep ate grass in the ________________.

8. Cars, computers, and copiers are all ______________.

9. How much ____________ do you have to buy a present for your father?

10. Wood and stone were the ______________ used to build the house.

11. I drew a ____________ to show a friend how to find my house.

12. The map shows the _____________ of all the state parks.

<3H-1>

433. newspaper		The great area of salt water that covers most of the earth.
434. order		Several folded sheets of paper with news stories on them.
435. noon		A request to buy or sell something.
436. ocean		Twelve o'clock in the daytime.
437. notebook		To make pictures with colored liquids called paints.
438. people		A book with lines for writing.
439. nest		Men, women, and children.
440. paint		Made or found a short time ago; having been in a place only a short time.
441. operator		A place where insects and other animals live and raise their young.
442. paw		Above one's head or in the sky.
443. new		A person who runs a machine.
444. overhead		The foot of certain kinds of animals.

<3H-2>

nest	new	newspaper	noon	notebook	ocean
operator	order	overhead	paint	paw	people

1. There were three eggs in the bird's __________.

2. Whales swim in the ____________.

3. Many ______________ came to watch the game.

4. Harriet bought a _________ dress for the party.

5. Cats walk quietly on their soft __________.

6. Write in your ______________ what you want to remember from science class.

7. Everyone looked up as the plane flew ______________.

8. Martin and his friends like to ___________ the fence.

9. Mr. Sams reads two ________________ every morning.

10. The baker received ____________ for ten cakes.

11. The ____________ answered the phone and typed information into a computer.

12. The sun is high in the sky at ___________.

<3I-1>

445. push		An outdoor meal.
446. rainbow		To press against something to make it move.
447. picnic		A drop of rain.
448. rain		Made of plastic, a human-made material.
449. ripe		To fall from the clouds as drops of water.
450. plastic		A person whose job is to protect people.
451. raindrop		Bands of colored light sometimes seen in the sky after rain.
452. police officer		Having good feelings about yourself for something you have done.
453. recipe		Ready to be eaten.
454. professor		To keep safe from harm.
455. proud		A college teacher.
456. protect		A plan for cooking something to eat.

<3I-2>

picnic	plastic	police officer	professor	protect	proud
push	rain	rainbow	raindrop	recipe	ripe

1. The park has many places for us to sit down and have a _____________.

2. Pull the door to get in, and ________ it to get out.

3. A crab's shell ______________ it from enemies.

4. A ____________ bucket is light and easy to carry.

5. Large ___________ fell on the sidewalk.

6. Alisa was ___________ of her brother for winning a trophy.

7. The ____________ taught American history.

8. After the rain, a beautiful ___________ stretched across the sky.

9. The clouds turned grey, and it began to ____________.

10. The ___________ bananas are bright yellow.

11. The cookbook has a ______________ for tomato soup.

12. A ____________ ___________ teaches us about traffic safety.

<3J-1>

457. river		A grown-up male chicken.
458. sand		Freedom from danger.
459. rooster		A work of art made out of clay, stone, metal, or other materials.
460. sculpture		A big stream of water.
461. rope		A place where people learn.
462. safety		To move with fast steps.
463. sample		A thick, strong cord.
464. run		Tiny pieces of broken rocks.
465. scientist		A small part of something.
466. safe		A hard object in the earth.
467. school		A person whose job is to learn more about science.
468. rock		Free from danger.

<3J-2>

river	rock	rooster	rope	run	safe
safety	sample	sand	school	scientist	sculpture

1. The __________ crows each morning when the sun rises.

2. There is a _______________ of Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.C.

3. Boats sailed down the ___________ to the sea.

4. Space _______________ study science.

5. I liked to taste ____________ of food when I go to the supermarket with my mother.

6. The children sat on the big _________.

7. Please read the rules for the __________ at the pool.

8. Jo will ___________ in the race.

9. The __________ on the beach was soft and warm.

10. Turn these _____________ for the children to jump.

11. You will be ___________ when you stay indoors during the storm.

12. The children learned to read at ____________.

<3K-1>

469. sister		A hard covering.
470. seed		A place where things are safe from weather or danger.
471. smooth		A girl with the same parents as another child.
472. shell		A place where things are sold.
473. shelter		Having a surface without any bumps.
474. shop		The shade of a tree or building.
475. star		Coming to a point that can cut.
476. sharp		To use the voice to make music.
477. sing(sang)		The small part of a plant from which new plants grow.
478. shade		A large ball of burning gases in space far from earth.
479. sign		Not strong.
480. shaky		A board with message on it.

<3K-2>

seed	shade	shaky	sharp	shell	shelter
shop	sign	sing	sister	smooth	star

1. We plant ____________ in our garden in spring.

2. A __________ looks like a bright light in the sky.

3. The ________ of the tree kept the sun off the children.

4. My ___________ Karen is younger than I am.

5. A turtle can pull its head into its ___________.

6. The bear used a cave as a ____________ for the winter.

7. The chef used a __________ knife to chop up the fruit.

8. Everyone was ___________ "Happy Birthday."

9. The tower made of blocks was too ____________ to stay up.

10. The top has a ___________ and shiny top.

11. The _________ on First Street sells cards and gifts.

12. There was a For Sale ___________ in front of the house next door.

<3L-1>

481. steam		Having a lot of power.
482. throw		A group of people who work or play together.
483. teacher		The white cloud we see as water is changed into a gas by boiling.
484. tent		A shelter made of clothe, skin, held up by poles and ropes.
485. telephone		The outside or top part of something.
486. strong		A person who helps others to learn.
487. surface		A true or made-up story.
488. symbol		To spread out a part of the body.
489. tale		A building in which things are sold.
490. team		A machine that lets people talk to each other over wires.
491. stretch		A mark or sign that stands for something else.
492. store		To make something fly through the air.

<3L-2>

steam	store	stretch	strong	surface	symbol
tale	teacher	team	telephone	tent	throw

1. Grandmother reads stories to me from a book of fairy _____________.

2. A cloud of ____________ came from the tea kettle.

3. The friends talk on the ______________ every day.

4. We sell our fruit at our _____________.

5. The campers slept in ____________.

6. The runner _____________ her legs before the race.

7. Eddie can _____________ the ball far.

8. On a map, circles are often _____________ for cities and towns.

9. Our ____________ showed us how to write a letter.

10. A baseball ____________ has nine players.

11. The ___________ of the road is bumpy.

12. The ___________ donkey carries a heavy load.

<3M-1>

493. tunnel		With each other.
494. vegetable		A path that runs below the ground.
495. weather		A time when people do not work or go to school.
496. voice		What the air outside is like.
497. together		A kind of liquid that people, animals, and plants need to live.
498. vacation		A plant or part of a plant that can be used as food.
499. village		The sound made when you talk or sing.
500. water		A vehicle used to carry loads.
501. warm		A line of railroad cars.
502. train		Having just enough heat but not too much.
503. watch		A small community in the country.
504. truck		To look at.

<3M-2>

together	train	truck	tunnel	vacation	vegetable
village	voice	warm	watch	water	weather

1. The children play well ________________.

2. Carlos spoke in a loud ____________.

3. The __________ brings food to stores.

4. We drove our car through the _____________.

5. Many passengers rode the sightseeing _________ across Canada.

6. The ___________ today is cold and cloudy.

7. Corn and carrots are _________________.

8. Drink _________ on a hot day.

9. The children visited the zoo during their ______________.

10. I like to ____________ birds at the park.

11. The small ___________ is high in the mountains.

12. My aunt likes to sit by the ________ fire and read a book.

<3N-1>

505. wire		A fully-grown person or animal.
506. arrow		A long, thin piece of metal.
507. adult		A thin, straight rod, usually with a point at one end and feathers at the other, shot from a bow.
508. artist		One or more pieces of art, such as paintings, drawings, or sculpture.
509. advice		A suggestion for what to do or how to do it.
510. archaeologist		A person who writes; an author.
511. athlete		Very old; from long ago.
512. writer		A large reptile found mainly along rivers of the southeastern United States.
513. artwork		A person who is skilled in any kind of art, such as painting or sculpture.
514. alligator		A job.
515. work		An expert who studies the past by studying very old objects found in the earth.
516. ancient		A person with skill in a sport, such as skating, tennis, or running.

<3N-2>

wire	work	writer	adult	advice	alligator
ancient	archaeologist	arrow	artist	artwork	athlete

1. Mrs. Santiago starts her _________ at 8:30 every morning.

2. We saw an _______________ in a river in Florida.

3. The painter sold the framed ___________.

4. Electricity runs through a ______________.

5. The _________________ dug up the ruins of an ancient city.

6. Shakespeare is a famous ____________. He wrote plays.

7. The __________ raced to cross the finish line.

8. There are many ____________ buildings in Rome.

9. When children grow up, they become _____________.

10. The ___________ drew pictures for children's books.

11. She shot an _____________ at the target.

12. Sari's mother gave her _____________ about how to cross the road.

<4A-1>

517. bathroom		A group of listeners or watchers, as at a concert or play.
518. bury		A strip of springy wood bent by a string, used for shooting arrows.
519. butterfly		A room that has a sink and a toilet, and often a bathtub or a shower.
520. audience		Having or showing courage; not afraid.
521. bow		The imaginary line around which a planet or other object turns.
522. brave		One of the hard pieces that form the skeletons of people and many animals.
523. axis		To cover something with soil.
524. bone		A situation in which the numbers of plants animals are in harmony.
525. building		Giving off a lot of light; shining.
526. balance		A room for sleeping.
527. bright		A structure with a roof and walls, such as a house, school, of factory.
528. bedroom		A four-winged insect related to the moth.

<4A-2>

audience	axis	balance	bathroom	bedroom	bone
bow	brave	bright	building	bury	butterfly

1. Earth spins on its __________.

2. The dog dug a hole and ____________ the bone.

3. She washed her hands in the _______________.

4. The young girl played the piano for the _______________.

5. Charles hit the bulls-eye, using his _______ and arrow.

6. Bryan broke a __________ in his leg, so he has to wear a cast.

7. Killing too many wolves can upset the __________ of nature, making other plants and animals die off, too.

8. The caterpillar turned into a ______________.

9. The store was in a big _____________.

10. He went to his _____________ and lay down for a quick nap.

11. The boy was __________ when he went to the hospital.

12. You need a ___________ light for reading.

<4B-1>

529. cafeteria		Cows that are owned by humans.
530. cattle		To gather.
531. century		A restaurant in which customers choose food that is served at counters and then carry it tables to eat.
532. candidate		A person who runs for an office.
533. collect		A period of 100 years.
534. citizen		A person's profession, or the work he or she does over a lifetime.
535. career		A white or gray shape that floats in the air and is made up of tiny bits of water or ice.
536. classroom		A person who live in a city or town.
537. cloud		The wormlike form of a certain insects, such as butterflies and moths after.
538. clothes		A room where classes are held in a school.
539. caterpillar		To honor; to show admiration for.
540. celebrate		Anything that is worn by people, such as dresses, pants, and shirts.

<4B-2>

cafeteria	candidate	career	caterpillar	cattle	celebrate
century	citizen	classroom	clothes	cloud	collect

1. We ate lunch in the ____________ at school.

2. The teacher got the ___________ ready for the first day of school.

3. We ____________ birthdays with a family party.

4. He took a shower and put on his ________________.

5. You can vote for only one ______________.

6. She ___________ shells as she walked on the beach.

7. The big ___________ ate all the leaves on the bush.

8. When you grow up, you will have many ____________ to choose from.

9. Our town has many older _____________.

10. It is fun to lie on the grass and look up at the ___________ in the sky.

11. We now live in the twenty-first ______________.

12. The __________ were in the field, eating grass.

<4C-1>

541. colonel		To find ways in which things are alike and different.
542. compare		The ability to face danger without giving in to fear.
543. creative		A military officer.
544. courage		A place with its own people and government.
545. compete		A group of people living together in one place.
546. community		Showing imagination and creativity.
547. complete		To take part in a game or contest that will have a winner.
548. country		At ease; free from pain.
549. conversation		Having all its parts.
550. comfortable		One of the seven large land areas on Earth.
551. continent		To share thoughts or information.
552. communicate		A talk between two or more people.

<4C-2>

colonel	comfortable	communicate	community	compare	compete
complete	continent	conversation	country	courage	creative

1. Our _______________ has a great sports center.

2. My mon had a ____________ with Michael and me.

3. The ___________ ordered the soldiers to march.

4. On this map, the oceans are blue, and the __________ are green.

5. Grandfather's chair is very ______________ to sit in.

6. It takes ____________ to stand up to a bully.

7. My sister likes to _____________ with her friends by telephone.

8. Lin is very _____________. She made a cute gift out of simple materials.

9. When I put in this last piece, the puzzle will be _____________.

10. The bicyclists will _____________ in a cross-country race.

11. Olivia and Juan ____________ their coins to see who has more money.

12. Mexico is a _____________ south or the United States.

<4D-1>

553. danger		To float along in water or air.
554. crew		Something that may cause harm.
555. custom		Any of a large group of reptiles that lived millions of years ago.
556. eagle		A group of people who work together, especially on a ship.
557. designer		To find or learn something before anyone else.
558. discover		The way a group of people traditionally do something.
559. dinosaur		A person who creates a plan or pattern for making something.
560. drift		A very large bird with powerful wings and sharp eyes.
561. drought		Any plant product, such as cotton or corn, that is grown on a farm.
562. crop		The space between two things.
563. distance		Eager to know or learn more.
564. curious		A long time in which little rain falls and the land becomes very dry.

<4D-2>

crew	crop	curious	custom	danger	designer
dinosaur	discover	distance	drift	drought	eagle

1. The ___________ raised the sails and steered the ship out to sea.

2. The earth was so dry from the ___________ that it cracked.

3. The _______________ cut out a pattern for the new dress.

4. The farmer planted three __________; corn, soybeans, and wheat.

5. The children ____________ bugs living in the wood.

6. The movie made us ___________ about why the dinosaurs died out.

7. We let the boat ____________ down the river.

8. There are many ___________ around a construction site.

9. The ___________ caught a fish in its claws and flew up into a tree.

10. The ____________ between my school and my house is three miles.

11. The Apatosaurus was a large ____________ that lived millions of years ago.

12. It is the __________ for folk dancers to wear traditional costumes.

<4E-1>

565. farm		The planet on which we live.
566. Earth		To travel through a place to learn what it is like.
567. factory		To stick something firmly in something else.
568. explore		The place where an object or area ends.
569. feather		A building where goods are made or put together.
570. embed		One of the competitions that make up a sports program.
571. event		A sudden and dangerous situation in which someone must help or take action right away.
572. edge		One part of a bird's body or covering.
573. emergency		All of the things a person learns through study and training.
574. farmer		A person who works on or owns a farm.
575. education		A time when people vote to choose a leader.
576. election		An area of land used for growing crops or raising animals.

<4E-2>

Earth	edge	education	election	embed	emergency
event	explore	factory	farm	farmer	feather

1. The glass fell off the __________ of the table.

2. The queen's crown was ______________ with jewels.

3. The duck ___________ was very soft to the touch.

4. He went to college because he wanted more __________________.

5. Jacob participated in the high school track-field ________________.

6. Anna won the _____________ and became president of her fourth-grade class.

7. A ____________ takes good care or his crops.

8. Soon the scientists will _____________ the cave they found.

9. All people must protect ___________, because it is our home.

10. Workers build cars in that big _____________.

11. We helped feed the chickens at the ______________.

12. This is an _______________!! Call the police!

<4F-1>

577. frown		The mark left by a foot or shoe.
578. footprint		The remains or impression of a plant or animal from long ago.
579. food		A part of the body in fish that allows them to "breathe" under water.
580. fossil		Someone a person knows well and likes.
581. gill		Anything that is eaten by people or animals.
582. friend		To wrinkle the forehead, as in thought or anger.
583. feature		An area of land where flowers, vegetables, and other plants are grown.
584. garden		The right to do certain things, such as think, act, vote, speak, and worship freely.
585. freedom		A main characteristic or quality
586. goal		Something a person or group wants or hopes to do.
587. game		An open wall around an area, made from wooden rails, wire, or other materials.
588. fence		A contest or sport that has rules.

<4F-2>

feature	fence	food	footprint	fossil	freedom
friend	frown	game	garden	gill	goal

1. The best ____________ of the book about Hawaii were the beautiful pictures.

2. A fish's ___________ are like a person' lung in some ways.

3. My favorite ____________ are soccer and dominoes.

4. The rancher put a ____________ around his land.

5. He _____________ because he was upset.

6. The ____________ to vote for our leaders is important to Americans.

7. The children left the _____________ as they walked across the soft sand.

8. His __________ was to become a musician.

9. We found three fish ______________ in the rock.

10. We ate my favorite ____________, pizza with lots of cheese.

11. The big old house had beautiful ______________ around it.

12. I like to spend time with my _______________.

<4G-1>

589. house		A number of people who have something common.
590. herd		The soil of the earth.
591. group		Having great weight; hard to move or hold up.
592. growl		A building in which people live.
593. heavy		To make a deep, rumbling, threatening sound with voice.
594. ground		A large group of animals of one kind.
595. guard		The leader of a state or region.
596. hatch		A person who watches over people, animals, or things and keeps them from harm.
597. horizon		The line where the earth and sky seem to meet.
598. governor		To come out of an egg.
599. holiday		A hard hat that protects the head from injury.
600. helmet		A day on which most business is stopped in honor of an important event.

<4G-2>

governor	ground	group	growl	guard	hatch
heavy	helmet	herd	holiday	horizon	house

1. Many people liked to be with their families on ________________.

2. Juana wants to be the ______________ of Texas someday.

3. A ____________ stood by the door to protect the palace.

4. The boy was sad when he dropped his snack on the _____________.

5. In the evening, you can watch the sun on the _______________.

6. People should always wear ____________ when riding bikes.

7. Mr. Lee asked each ___________ to work together to make a story.

8. We backed away in fear as the tiger ______________ loudly.

9. A baby bird is very small when it ____________ from an egg.

10. There was a _______ of cattle grazing on the hillside.

11. My family lives in a white ____________ with a green door.

12. The fifty-pound weights were too ___________ for me to lift.

<4H-1>

601. leader		Freedom from control by another government.
602. hungry		The power to see in the mind things that are not real.
603. independence		Wanting or needing food.
604. law		To ask someone to come to a place or an event, such as a party.
605. imagination		A room in which food is prepared and cooked.
606. invite		The person who decides questions of law in a courtroom.
607. laugh		A trip from one place to another.
608. kitchen		To make sounds showing happiness.
609. judge		A picture or of a person or thing.
610. image		A rule or set of rules followed by a group of people.
611. journey		To copy.
612. imitate		A person who leads others in a community.

<4H-2>

hungry	image	imagination	imitate	independence	invite
journey	judge	kitchen	laugh	law	leader

1. America declared its _____________ from England in 1776.

2. It is a long ____________ by ship from Japan to the United States.

3. I didn't eat lunch, so I was ___________ when it was time for dinner.

4. ____________ help people live safely in communities.

5. We will ______________ the whole class to come to our picnic.

6. When I look in the mirror, I see an ___________ of myself.

7. We need a good _____________ to run for president.

8. The ______________ sent the woman to prison for stealing money.

9. In my _________________, cats can fly.

10. We had to _____________ because the jokes are so funny.

11. Grandpa is cooking breakfast in the _________________.

12. Young children often ____________ adults.

<4I-1>

613. meadow		A lesson or idea, such as one contained in a speech, story, or work of art.
614. ledge		A place where many kinds of goods are sold, often outdoors.
615. medal		A narrow piece of land or rock on the side of a mountain or cliff.
616. message		An area of flat, grassy land.
617. market		The stuff of which a thing is made.
618. memory		A small area of land.
619. machine		An object built by people that uses energy to do work.
620. lot		Unkind.
621. material		To pay attention so as to hear or understand what he said.
622. listen		Something a person remembers from his or her past.
623. mean		Feeling alone and wishing for friends.
624. lonely		A small piece of metal with a picture or writing on it often given as an award to the winner of a sports event.

<4I-2>

ledge	listen	lonely	lot	machine	market
material	meadow	mean	medal	memory	message

1. The road crew used a ____________ to fix the bridge.

2. We bought fruits and vegetables at the _______________.

3. We walked along the ___________ very carefully.

4. They picked flowers and played tag in the sunny ________________.

5. She felt _____________ because all her friends were away.

6. Marco likes to ___________ to music when he draws.

7. When we write a book report, we have to tell the ___________ of the story.

8. Juan has a happy ___________ of his first dog.

9. She won a gold ____________ for jumping higher than anyone else.

10. The __________ older boys teased him.

11. The ____________ used to build the house were wood and stone.

12. The neighbors cleared trash from the empty ________ and then planted flowers there.

<4J-1>

625. orbit		A small part of a city or town.
626. migrate		The path one object follows as it circles another object.
627. neighborhood		A written request that many people sign and send to a leader.
628. petition		A person who is skilled in music.
629. musician		To move from one region to another when the seasons change.
630. neighbor		Anything that can be seen or touched.
631. object		A person whose job is to dig minerals such as gold, coal, and diamond from the earth.
632. oxygen		A person living near another.
633. miner		A part of the land, higher than a hill.
634. pasture		A gas that is found in the air around us.
635. mountain		Ground covered with grass and other plants that cattle, horses, or sheep can eat.
636. nation		A group of people who lives in the same area and share the same government.

<4J-2>

migrate	miner	mountain	musician	nation	neighbor
neighborhood	object	orbit	oxygen	pasture	petition

1. In the winter, ducks ______________ south to a warmer climate.

2. Earth makes a complete _________ around the sun each year.

3. The small ____________ was a quiet place in which to live.

4. The top of the _______________ is covered with snow.

5. When we breathe, we take ____________ into our bodies.

6. Many ____________ work in mines deep underground.

7. When we walk along the block, we say hello to our _______________.

8. The cows were eating grass in the sunny _____________.

9. The neighbors sent a _____________ to a mayor asking for a park along the river.

10. Every ___________ has its own flag.

11. Don't put a pencil, a bean, a marble, or any other ______________ into that cage.

12. The _____________ played a fast song, and everyone danced.

<4K-1>

637. raft		Having feelings of pride and self-respect.
638. picnic		The total number of people living in a place.
639. proud		An event at which people share a meal outdoors.
640. population		A small bag or sack.
641. process		An area, often in a park or next to a school, in which children can play.
642. pouch		A set of steps for making something.
643. playground		The head of a school.
644. principal		A situation that is difficult to solve.
645. problem		A list of steps for reaching a goal.
646. plan		The leader of a type of nation called a republic.
647. president		Any of the large objects that move in orbits around the sun or another star.
648. planet		A floating platform made of logs fastened together.

<4K-2>

picnic	plan	planet	playground	population	pouch
president	principal	problem	process	proud	raft

1. At the ___________, we sat on the grass and ate sandwiches.

2. Sarah had a real ________________ when her car got into an accident.

3. The ____________ of Lakeview School was a friend to all students.

4. We live on the ___________ Earth.

5. She felt __________ when she won the science fair.

6. The builders study the __________ for the building.

7. We made a _____________ and floated down the river.

8. Mark keeps his marbles in a leather ____________.

9. The ______________ of the town grew because it was close to the railroad.

10. The ____________ of making a peanut butter is not hard to follow.

11. The ____________ has swings, a slide, and a rope ladder.

12. George Washington was the first _____________ of the United States.

<4L-1>

649. sample		An object launched by a rocket into an orbit around a planet.
650. sandwich		A road or path taken in traveling from one point to another.
651. scale		A part or single piece that shows what the whole is like.
652. satellite		The relationship between the measurements on a map and the real distances they stand for.
653. right		Drops of water falling down clouds in the sky.
654. route		Two slices of bread with a filling, such as meat or cheese between them.
655. school		Something to which a person has a fair and proper claim.
656. rain		A law of set of directions that tells people the correct thing to do.
657. rule		To make someone feel afraid.
658. scare		A person who owns or operates a large farm such as cattle or horses.
659. rancher		A description of events.
660. record		A place where students go to learn.

<4L-2>

rain	rancher	record	right	route	rule
sample	sandwich	satellite	scale	scare	school

1. The doctor kept a ___________ of all her patients.

2. They brought peanut butter _____________ for lunch.

3. The light we saw in the sky came from ________________.

4. They got wet in the __________.

5. Leon likes to taste the food ____________ in the grocery store.

6. The Texas ____________ raised horses to sell to other ranches.

7. What are you learning at _____________?

8. The __________ of free speech is important to Americans.

9. Bryan tried to __________ me by jumping out and yelling, Boo!

10. On this map, the _________ shows that one inch stands for one mile.

11. Read the ___________ before playing the game.

12. We can take two different __________ to get to school.

<4M-1>

661. scientist		Something that protects people from sun, rain, cold, and harsh weather.
662. sport		The time of year, spring, summer, fall, or winter.
663. shallow		A game or activity such as baseball, football, or swimming.
664. space		Someone serving in the army.
665. season		The area outside Earth's atmosphere.
666. shelter		To say something very loudly.
667. shout		A way of solving a problem.
668. sketch		A person who does experiments to learn how things happen.
669. solution		To draw something quickly, giving an idea of what it looks like without showing all the details.
670. seed		Having the bottom not far below the top; not deep.
671. soldier		The coast or land on the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
672. shore		The beginning of a plant inside a hard shell.

<4M-2>

scientist	season	seed	shallow	shelter	shore
shout	sketch	soldier	solution	space	sport

1. Winter is the ____________ when the temperature gets colder.

2. Can you find the ___________ to the puzzle?

3. The ____________ marched in a long, straight line.

4. They swam to the _____________ and got out of the water.

5. A _______________ studied how germs are spread.

6. Everyone likes to play a different ____________.

7. The bus stop provided ____________ from the rain.

8. There are billions of stars out in ___________.

9. The artist drew a ____________ of my sister and brother.

10. I like to ___________ in Echo Park and hear my voice come back.

11. We planted _________, and they grew into sunflowers.

12. The stream was so ___________ that we were able to wade across it.

<4N-1>

673. supplies		The place in which any kind of artist works or teaches.
674. stage		The top of a liquid, such as water.
675. studio		A step in a process.
676. supper		A place with seats that rise in steps around open an open field that is used for sports events.
677. surface		A person who is not known.
678. swallow		Having reached success.
679. stranger		Materials or goods kept to be given out when needed.
680. successful		A meal eaten in the evening; the last meal of the day.
681. stadium		A topic students learn about in school, such as English, history, or math.
682. success		One part of a nation that has a central government.
683. subject		To move the mouth, tongue, and throat so that food passes from the mouth, through the throat, into the stomach.
684. state		Good results; the reaching of a goal.

<4N-2>

stadium	stage	state	stranger	studio	subject
success	successful	supper	supplies	surface	swallow

1. The next _________ of construction is to put up the walls of the house.

2. When you are introduced to a ________________, it is polite to shake hands.

3. Leaves were floating on the ____________ of the pool.

4. His planning and hard work led to ______________.

5. Everyone in the _____________ cheered when the teams ran onto the field.

6. Mother kept all her cleaning ____________ in a plastic bucket.

7. The photographer took the family photograph in his ____________.

8. Chew your food well before you ___________ it.

9. I like math, but science is my favorite ____________.

10. There are fifty _____________ in the United States of America.

11. We ate __________, and then we went to bed.

12. Lana worked hard on her science project, and she was ____________.

<4O-1>

685. trick		A person who helps students learn, most often in a school.
686. swamp		A group of people who work or play together.
687. treasure		How hot or cold something is.
688. teacher		An area of low, wet land.
689. trader		A young frog or toad when it has a tail and gills and lives in water.
690. team		Anything that people care greatly about because it is worth a lot of money.
691. temperature		An object such as a hammer, saw that is used for doing work by hand.
692. together		A burning stick that can be carried in the hand.
693. tool		A job to be done.
694. tadpole		To fool or cheat.
695. torch		With each other.
696. task		A person who buys and sells goods.

<4O-2>

swamp	tadpole	task	teacher	team	temperature
together	tool	torch	trader	treasure	trick

1. The friends walked _____________ to lunch.

2. Turtles, frogs, and water snakes often live in ___________.

3. They ____________ us by coming in the back door.

4. The weatherman said the ____________ would be colder tomorrow.

5. An ___________ grows to be a frog or toad.

6. As the runner carried the ___________, its flame lit up the night.

7. Our basketball ___________ had five players.

8. My first grade ____________ taught me how to read and write.

9. Long ago, pirates buried their ____________ on small islands.

10. My brother is a good ____________. He traded three baseball cards for a football.

11. I need my __________ to fix the door.

12. Henry's _________ was to weed the garden each week.

<4P-1>

697. weather		Understanding that comes from experience.
698. worker		A person who comes to see a place or to stay with someone for a short time.
699. vegetable		Liking unusual, thrilling, or risky experiences
670. wisdom		Without anyone else present of helping.
671. airport		The condition of the air outside; kinds of weather include cold weather, sunny weather, and stormy weather.
672. world		A plant or part of a plant used as food, such as carrots, or lettuce.
673. wire		A person who does a job.
674. window		The Earth.
675. visitor		A large area set up for the landing and taking off of aircraft.
676. adventurous		To make a choice in an election.
677. alone		Metal that has been pulled into a thin thread.
678. vote		An opening in the side of a building to let in light and air.

<4P-2>

vegetable	visitor	vote	weather	window	wire
wisdom	worker	world	adventurous	airport	alone

1. When my aunt was in the hospital, she had many _______________.

2. People from all around the ____________ do business on the internet.

3. You need ____________ to decide what is the right thing to do.

4. Open the ____________ and let the fresh air come in.

5. I like to eat the _______________ we grow in our garden.

6. Chen does his homework ___________.

7. The airplane landed at the _____________.

8. In winter, the ____________ is often cold and snowy.

9. Each person can ___________ for one candidate.

10. The _____________ hikers made a trip across the Rocky Mountains.

11. The ___________ put parts into the machine.

12. Dad fixed the broken _________ on the lamp.

<5A-1>

679. apartment		To combine or mix two or more things to make something new.
680. bean		A four-wheeled vehicle run by an engine.
681. ancestor		A person with skill in sports or games such as football, running or tennis.
682. automobile		The seed of certain plants, used as food.
683. athlete		A group of rooms, or a single room, to live in.
684. belief		The shore of an ocean or a river, especially a sandy or pebbly shore.
685. branch		A round container, usually made of wood, that is larger around its middle than at its flat top and base.
686. blend		A person who travels in space.
687. balance		A woody part of a tree growing out from the trunk.
688. beach		Something thought to be true.
689. astronaut		A condition of equality between amounts or values.
690. barrel		A person from whom one is descended, generally a person further back than a grand parent.

<5A-2>

ancestor	apartment	astronaut	athlete	automobile	balance
barrel	beach	bean	belief	blend	branch

1. Maria Louisa tried to ____________ the medicine on the scale.

2. The ___________ grew out from the trunk of the tree.

3. Ivan's _______________ came from Russia and Nepal

4. Rice and ____________ is a popular dish in many countries.

5. Marcy is the best ____________ on the team.

6. An _____________ needs gasoline to run.

7. Every summer I go to the ____________ with my cousins.

8. My brother's _____________ has three bedrooms.

9. Every religious group has its own set of ______________.

10. Grandmother stored apples for the winter in a wooden ____________.

11. If you ___________ yellow and red paint, you will have orange paint.

12. _________________ must have a lot of training before they go into space.

<5B-1>

691. brave		A company formed to make or sell goods or services.
692. climate		A period of 100 years.
693. build		A vegetable with closely folded leaves forming a hard and round head.
694. city		Smashed into pieces or not usable.
695. business		Cows and bulls raised for their milk or meat.
696. cabbage		Having or showing courage.
697. chore		To make something by putting parts or materials together.
698. burrow		To draw air into and let it out from the lungs.
699. cattle		A job that must be done daily or weekly.
700. century		A large town with many people.
701. breathe		A hole made in the ground by certain animals.
702. broken		The kind of weather a place usually has over a long period.

<5B-2>

brave	breathe	broken	build	burrow	business
cabbage	cattle	century	chore	city	climate

1. My dad is going to take the __________ bicycle to the repair shop.

2. Walking the dog is my daily ____________.

3. Be ________ and don't cry when you see the doctor.

4. The twenties ___________ was a time of many important inventions.

5. Texas has many ranches that raise ____________.

6. My uncle sells shirts in his clothing ______________.

7. Florida has a warm _____________ all year.

8. The doctor asked Victor to ____________ in and out several times.

9. The __________ has many buildings.

10. Gabriel made stuffed ____________ for lunch.

11. My little brother ___________ houses with his blocks.

12. A rabbit lives in a _____________.

<5C-1>

703. community		An area of land with its own people and government.
704. competition		To work with others to do something.
705. construction		A piece of land where a group of people settle and remain under the control of the country they came from.
706. contrast		To direct or manage something or someone.
707. country		A place and the people or animals that live there.
708. colony		The effort made by two or more people to get the same thing or to be the best.
709. counter		To share information or ideas.
710. control		To look at more than one thing and notice how they are the same and how they are different.
711. conversation		To compare two things to show how they are different.
712. cooperate		A long board or table, as in a restaurant or store, on which meals are served or goods are sold.
713. communicate		The building of something.
714. compare		A sharing of ideas by talking together.

<5C-2>

colony	communicate	community	compare	competition	construction
contrast	control	conversation	cooperate	counter	country

1. _____________ two sacks of coins. Which is worth more ?

2. Virginia was one of the British ______________.

3. Yesterday Maria and Mr. Garcia has a long ______________ about their hobbies.

4. ____________ city life with country life.

5. Many people like to _____________ with friends and family over the Internet.

6. A police officer sometimes ___________ the traffic.

7. The magazines are on the __________ at the checkout.

8. The ____________ of a house takes a long time.

9. When we ____________, we get our chores done more quickly.

10. Kansas has a large rural _____________.

11. France is a ____________ in Europe.

12. The swimming ______________ was held at the high school pool.

<5D-1>

715. device		A living thing that is an animal.
716. determined		A plant grown for personal use or for sale.
717. crew		The stages in the growth of a plant or an animal.
718. creature		Firmly decided about doing something.
719. daring		A group of people working together to do a job.
720. cycle		To think up and make.
721. delivery		A very dry region, often covered with sand, where few or no plants grow.
722. craft		A situation that is not safe.
723. desert		Brave and adventurous, not afraid of anything.
724. danger		The taking and handing over of something.
725. crop		Work in which a special skill is used to make things by hand.
726. create		An object built for a certain purpose.

<5D-2>

craft	create	creature	crew	crop	cycle
danger	daring	delivery	desert	determined	device

1. Making pottery is a ____________.

2. The ________ of the sailboat worked together to raise the sails.

3. I made the newspaper ____________ on my bicycle.

4. I'd like to ___________ a machine that would make my bed every morning.

5. The batter was ______________ to hit the ball.

6. Corn and soybeans are important ___________ in the Midwest.

7. A compass is a ___________ used for drawing circles.

8. Jumping while riding a motorcycle is a ____________ act.

9. A caterpillar changes into a butterfly during its growth __________.

10. Parrots are jungle _____________

11. A firefighter's job is full of _____________.

12. It is hard to find food or water in a ____________.

<5E-1>

727. discover		An animal, person, nation, or group that tries to harm, destroy or defeat another.
728. environment		A hill or bank of loose sand.
729. enemy		To find or to find out something.
730. energy		The line or place where an object or area ends.
731. dune		The oldest one in a group.
732. edge		Producing results with the least effort or waste.
733. divide		One of the basic parts of something.
734. efficient		The planet on which we live.
735. eldest		To cut or break into parts.
736. element		The amount of space between two points.
737. Earth		Everything around a person, animal, or plant.
738. distance		Power from electricity, the sun, or another source.

<5E-2>

discover	distance	divide	dune	Earth	edge
efficient	eldest	element	enemy	energy	environment

1. What is the ______________ between New York and Chicago?

2. Joshua is the ___________ cousin, and I am the youngest.

3. The ____________ travels around the sun.

4. Children like to _____________ creatures living in the wood.

5. Mother will ___________ the pizza into four equal shares.

6. Some sand _________ in west Texas are more than 70 feet high.

7. Cactuses grow well in a desert ______________.

8. The new air conditioner is more _____________ in keeping the house cool.

9. The ________ of the table is smooth.

10. Moving water can be turned into ______________.

11. Setting and plot are two of the _____________ that make up a story.

12. Cats and dogs are ____________.

<5F-1>

727. flight		To develop the body by being active.
728. exercise		A thick growth of trees spreading over a large area of land.
729. forest		A number that is more than 0 but less than 1.
730. fraction		A trip in an aircraft.
731. exploration		An outline, shape, or form.
732. freedom		To cover with water an area not usually covered with it.
733. fireplace		Traveling through a new region to learn what it is like.
734. figure		A device used to control the flow of a liquid from a pipe.
735. flyer		A person who works on or owns a farm.
736. flood		The right to do certain things without the control of others.
737. faucet		A sheet of paper that gives information.
738. farmer		An opening in which a fire is built indoors, connected with a chimney to let the smoke go outdoors.

<5F-2>

exercise	exploration	farmer	faucet	figure	fireplace
flight	flood	flyer	forest	fraction	freedom

1. In-line skating is good ____________ for the whole family.

2. I ate only a ____________ of my sandwich.

3. The _________ raised chickens, pigs, and cattle.

4. Turn on the _________ if you want to take a bath.

5. The fifteenth century was a time of great _______________.

6. The ____________ from New Delhi to Rome took 18 hours.

7. The ___________ near my town has many oak trees.

8. Many people in the world want the _______________ to vote for their leaders.

9. A square and a rectangle are plane ___________ in geometry.

10. My sister made a ___________ about our garage sale next week.

11. In the winter, the family sat around the ___________ to stay warm.

12. If the dam breaks, the river will ____________ the town.

<5G-1>

739. goat		The force that pulls objects toward the center of a planet and keeps them from floating away into space.
740. goods		A main road.
741. gravity		An animal, related to the sheep, that has horns, a little beard, and a short tail.
742. hungry		One step in the line from parent to child to grandchild.
743. house		The line where the earth and the sky seem to meet.
744. grandfather		Objects made to be sold.
745. highway		A building for people to live in.
746. horizon		The father of one's father or mother.
747. generation		Something a person wants to do or become.
748. graze		Wanting or needing food.
749. hatch		To feed on grass.
750. goal		To come out of an egg, as do birds, insects, and some other animals.

<5G-2>

generation	goal	goat	goods	grandfather	gravity
graze	hatch	highway	horizon	house	hungry

1. The farmer's cattle ____________ in the field.

2. My grandmother, my mother, and I represent three different _______________.

3. The ____________ on the corner has lots of windows.

4. There is less ___________ on the moon than there is on Earth.

5. Mountain ___________ roamed the hillsides of the Swiss Alps.

6. Chickens __________ from eggs.

7. What is your ____________ in life?

8. In the evening, you can see the sun setting on the _____________.

9. ____________ Williams is my mother's father.

10. After exercising, Victor was very ___________.

11. You can buy ____________ at a store.

12. If you want to get there faster, take the _____________.

<5H-1>

751. image		Freedom from the control of others.
752. independence		Inviting curiosity and attention.
753. language		To think up and make something for the first time.
754. interesting		A picture.
755. laboratory		A feeling or idea.
756. island		To come to a country to live there.
757. impression		To make something better.
758. invent		Any kind of business.
759. immigrate		The power to picture something in the mind.
760. improve		The words that the people of a certain nation or group use in speaking and writing.
761. industry		A building or room set up for doing experiments.
762. imagination		A piece of land, smaller than a continent, that has water all around it.

<5H-2>

image	imagination	immigrate	impression	improve	independence
industry	interesting	invent	island	laboratory	language

1. My grandparents ______________ to the United States in 1993.

2. A mirror reflects the ___________ of any object that is in front of it.

3. French is the _____________ spoken in France.

4. The writer used her _______________ to create the story about the flying cat.

5. My bicycle gives me a feeling of _______________ because it lets me go anywhere I want.

6. I have the _____________ that your sister likes me.

7. Please take these test tubes and charts to the ______________.

8. The ____________ of Hawaii has beautiful beaches.

9. My sister is reading a very ___________ book about a lost explorer.

10. Thomas Edison loved to _____________ things that made life easier.

11. There are many ______________ in the United States.

12. Carmakers want to ___________ the quality of their automobiles.

<5I-1>

763. mammal		To be defeated or to fail to win.
764. moon		Food served or eaten at a certain time of the day.
765. leader		A kind of animal of which the females make milk for their young.
766. mood		A large natural satellite of Earth.
767. lose		An experience from which something can be learned.
768. meal		A person who goes ahead of or directs a group.
769. leave		A person who buys and sells things.
770. name		To go from a place.
771. merchant		A way of feeling.
772. lesson		One of the flat, thin, usually green parts of a plant.
773. mountain		A word or group of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is called.
774. leaf		A landform higher than a hill.

<5I-2>

leader	leaf	leave	lesson	lose	mammal
meal	merchant	mood	moon	mountain	name

1. Oscar is the ____________ of the matching band.

2. My sister and I could not agree on a __________ for the puppy.

3. The young of ____________ are born alive, not hatched from eggs.

4. The dead _________ fell from the tree.

5. In Spain, lunch is the main ____________ of the day.

6. Tomas is ____________ next week on a vacation.

7. The _________ that the children learned was not to talk to strangers.

8. Someday I'll be able to climb those _______________.

9. After her team won the game, Helen was a in a good ___________

10. American astronauts have walked on the ___________.

11. Nobody likes to ___________ a game.

12. Many ____________ sell goods in street markets.

<5J-1>

775. parent		A person who is trained to care for sick, injured, or old people, often in a hospital or nursing home.
776. neighbor		A father or a mother.
777. ocean		A good chance to do something.
778. nurse		A march held as a celebration.
779. parasite		A person who lives nearby.
780. opportunity		The great body of salt water that covers about 70 percents of Earth.
781. parade		Showing worry or fear about something.
782. oxygen		Containing something that is needed by people and animals to stay healthy and strong.
783. nervous		A large group of trees, planted in order to harvest their fruits.
784. nutritious		A part of a city or town, having homes and usually stores and our services.
785. orchard		A gas that makes up about a fifth of Earth's atmosphere.
786. neighborhood		A plant or animal that gets its food and often its shelter by living on another plant or animal.

<5J-2>

neighbor	neighborhood	nervous	nurse	nutritious	ocean
opportunity	orchard	oxygen	parade	parasite	parent

1. This is a big park in my _________________.

2. Fleas are ___________ that live on dogs.

3. Samuel had an ______________ to meet the mayor.

4. My mom welcomed our new _______________.

5. Huge whales live in the ____________.

6. The apples in the ____________ were ripe and ready for picking.

7. The ___________ bandaged the cut on my arm.

8. I am ____________ about going to a new school.

9. When ____________ cannot care for a child, another adult will help.

10. I love the costumes people wear for the West Indian ____________.

11. Soybeans are very ____________ because they have a lot of protein for growth.

12. Compressed air in a driver's tank contains _____________.

<5K-1>

787. population		A tool that has a stick of writing material writing inside a covering of wood, plastic, or metal.
788. predator		An airplane.
789. pencil		A container with a handle and either a lip or spout, used for holding and pouring liquids.
790. plane		A large area of grassy land having few or no trees.
791. prairie		The permitting or allowing of something.
792. pitcher		Objects that are made from clay and hardened by heat, such as pots.
793. pottery		The number of people or animals living in a certain area.
794. permission		A person who flies an aircraft.
795. pocket		An animal that hunts other animals for food.
796. pilot		A spicy seasoning made from the dried berries of a certain plant.
797. pollution		A small pouch sewn into a garment, for carrying money or small objects.
798. pepper		Harmful materials that damage the air, water, and soil.

<5K-2>

pencil	pepper	permission	pilot	pitcher	plane
pocket	pollution	population	pottery	prairie	predator

1. I like to write with ____________ more than with pens.

2.China and India have the largest _____________ in the world.

3. You need to bring written _____________ to go on the field trip.

4. We are studying different types of ___________ in art class.

5. The eagle, which catches fish, is a _______________.

6. My dad likes to put ____________ on his baked potato.

7. People dumped trash into the river, causing ____________ in the water.

8. The __________ looks like a sea of grass.

9. I have some money in the __________ of my shirt.

10. The ____________ was full of water.

11. The ___________ landed the plane safely.

12. The ___________ flew over the city.

<5L-1>

799. promise		Something that is asked in order to find out something.
800. realistic		To give your word that you are going to do something.
801. reptile		A situation in which it is difficult to know what to do.
802. restaurant		To get ready.
803. question		Showing things in a lifelike way.
804. problem		Any of a large class of cold-blooded, egg-laying animals.
805. reporter		A person who gathers information and writes articles for a newspaper.
806. prepare		A task or piece of work.
807. railroad		The keeping of someone or something safe from danger or harm.
808. river		A large, natural stream of water flowing into the sea, a lake, or another river.
809. protection		A place where meals are cooked and served for a price.
810. project		A transportation system made up of all the tracks and trains belonging to one company.

<5L-2>

prepare	problem	project	promise	protection	question
railroad	realistic	reporter	reptile	restaurant	river

1. Caves provide animals with _____________ from the weather.

2. We have to ___________ for tomorrow's field trip.

3. The teacher asked a _______________ about the world.

4. Alligators are large _______________.

5. My ___________ was to help my mother build a birdhouse.

6. This sculpture is very ____________; you can even see the woman's eyelashes.

7. The _____________ with the car is that it has a flat tire.

8. We ate dinner at a nice ________________ last night.

9. The __________ spoke about the damage from the hurricane.

10. The ____________ has tracks in six southern states.

11. Aniko _________________ to take her niece to the zoo.

12. There was a wide bridge that cars used to get across the __________.

<5M-1>

811. safety		A band or square of cloth worn around the head, neck, or shoulders for warmth or style.
812. root		To make a home in a place.
813. settle		The time of year, spring, summer, fall, or winter.
814. scarf		The part of the plant that grows below the ground.
815. season		Freedom from danger or injury.
816. scene		White crystals obtained from seawater and as a mineral in the earth.
817. seashore		To move or go with great speed.
818. rush		A certain place and everything in it.
819. salt		A place set up to teach students.
820. score		A direction or a law that tells what one must or must not do.
821. school		To make points, as in a game.
822. rule		The land that borders on the ocean.

<5M-2>

root	rule	rush	safety	salt	scarf
scene	school	score	seashore	season	settle

1. Don't destroy the ___________, or the tree will die.

2. The _________ from the top of the mountain was beautiful.

3. Josh ___________ the least points to win the game.

4. For ________, wear goggles when sawing wood.

5. Rina wore a beautiful silk __________ to the dinner party.

6. If you want to play a game with us, you must follow the __________.

7. Everyday I go to __________ to learn.

8. They ___________ away from the burning building.

9. The hurricane destroyed many homes by the ______________.

10. Little by little, families ____________ the land by the river.

11. Eva always seasons her salad with ________ and olive oil.

12. Summer is my favorite ___________ because I like the warm weather.

<5N-1>

823. sport		To offer one's things or ideas.
824. success		Words that are spoken, especially as a talk to an audience.
825. share		A game or a contest that takes athletic skill, for example, baseball, football, or track.
826. strong		To find or work out the answer or solution to a problem.
827. solve		The science fiction word for a vehicle used for travel in space.
828. speech		The answer to a problem.
829. street		A section of a country that has its own government.
830. solution		Of an unusual kind; not ordinary.
831. spaceship		Having great strength or ability.
832. state		Surprised, horrified, or disgusted by something or someone.
833. special		A good outcome.
834. shocked		A public road in a city or town, usually with sidewalks and buildings on one or both sides.

<5N-2>

share	shocked	solution	solve	spaceship	special
speech	sport	state	street	strong	success

1. The ____________ donkey carried heavy packages.

2. Lily and her sister _____________ a bedroom.

3. There is a new movie theater a few ___________ from my house.

4. The people who saw the big fire were ______________ by its size.

5. Brooklyn is located in the ___________ of New York.

6. Going to the movies with just my dad is always a ____________ event.

7. The concert was a ______________; everybody loved it.

8. He liked to ____________ difficult riddles.

9. Have you found the ______________ to the problem?

10. One of my favorite ____________ is ice hockey.

11. The mayor gave a _____________ to the citizens.

12. In the movie, a _____________ from Mars landed on Earth.

<5O-1>

835. temperature		A large grocery store in which customers select goods from the shelves and pay as they leave.
836. together		The flavor of a food.
837. supermarket		The working together of a team or group to reach a goal.
838. teamwork		The outer part of something.
839. territory		The degree of heat or cold in a body or thing.
840. surface		Having a feeling of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by a need to drink.
841. thirsty		Remaining alive through a dangerous event.
842. team		A person who travels for pleasure.
843. tourist		Any large area of land.
844. supper		An evening meal; the last meal of the day.
845. survival		A person who gives lessons.
846. taste 847. teacher		with one another. A group of people who work or play together.

<5O-2>

supermarket		supper		surface		survival		taste		teacher
team	teamwork		temperature		territory		thirsty		together		tourist

1. Tonight we'll have soup and salad for ____________.

2. Alaska has the largest _________________ of any state.

3. Clean water is important for the ___________ of sea animals.

4. Once a week, my dad goes to the ___________ to buy food.

5. My brother plays on a basketball ____________.

6. Jeremy loves the ____________ of spicy food.

7. The ____________ asked me to read the poem.

8. Some flowers float on the ____________ of a pond.

9. The _____________ took a picture of the monument.

10. The ___________ puppy drank some water.

11. The ______________ in the mountains is usually lower than in the valley.

12. In baseball, we need ____________ to win.

13. We walked to school _____________.

<5P-1>

848. train		A time for rest and enjoyment.
849. visit		A body of water, such as a river or canal, used for travel.
850. vacation		To go from on place to another
851. worried		The transparent liquid that falls from the clouds as rain and fills oceans, rivers, and lakes.
852. travel		A kind of work that requires training and usually working with the hands or with machines.
853. wagon		Feeling uneasy and anxious.
854. win		A line of railway cars that are joined.
855. waterway		A journey or a voyage
856. transportation		A large vehicle pulled by animals and used mainly to carry goods
857. trade		To go to see people or places or to stay with a person or in a place as a guest
858. water		The moving of things or people from one place to another
859. warn 860. tradition 861. trip		To be successful in a game, contest, war, or other struggle. A custom, belief, or idea that is passed from one generation to the next. To tell of possible harm or danger

<5P-2>

trade	tradition	train	transportation	travel	trip
vacation	visit	wagon	warn	water	waterway
win	worried

1. People who like to work with their hands often choose a __________.

2. Marry is _____________ because Grandpa fell and hurt his arm.

3. Blowing out candles on a birthday cake is a _______________ in our house.

4. The mayor was happy to ________ the election.

5. The subway is a convenient way of ____________ in New York City

6. The ___________ to Rome was full of passengers.

7. The ship traveled through many ____________ on its way to Chicago.

8. If your are thirsty, you should drink a glass of _____________.

9. Uncle Bill comes to ________________ us.

10. Our class went to a field __________ to visit the zoo

11. After college Jasmine wants to _____________ before starting her new job

12. The sign _____________ us not to swim in the lake

13. The horses pulled the ______________.

14. Next summer Lisa and Heidi will go to Nepal on _______________.