Juggling

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Juggling

• Word Knowledge

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These words are closed compounds because there is
no space between the two words

• Everyone
• Volleyball
• Homework
• Afternoon
• What types of words are these?
• Compound words

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A digraph is formed when two letters are placed
together creating one sound.

• Then
• Those
• Both
• Truth
• Name the digraph that appears in the words above

• Then
• Those
• Both
• Truth
• th

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Consonant blends

• Stop
• Spin
• Most
• Speak
• Name the s consonant blend in each word

• Stop
• Spin
• Most
• Speak
• Name other words with these s consonant blends

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Name the /o/ or /aw/ sound spelled o in each word

• Lockers
• Office
• Intercom
• offered

• Lockers /aw/
• Office /aw/
• Intercom /o/
• Offered /aw/

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Identify the closed compounds and the words with
the th digraph in each sentence.

• Most students do their homework in the afternoon.
• Afternoon
• Their, the
• The volleyball spins and then skips across the
  net.
• Volleyball
• The, then

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Identify the s consonant blends in the following
sentence.

• Everyone saw both sport stars at the game
  yesterday.
• Sport, stars
• Add more s consonant blends to the sentence.

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Identify the words that contain the /o/ and /aw/
sounds spelled o

• Our lockers are down the hall from the
  principals office.
• Lockers, office

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Juggling- Vocabulary Words

• Serve
• Juggle
• Spare
• Spirit
• Deliberately

• Shrill
• Abruptly
• Pestering
• Persuade

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Serve- use context clues

• In gym class on Monday, we started volleyball,
  and I hit seven straight serves just over the
  net, hard and fast.
• Because no one could return the powerful serves
  of our volleyball players, we won the gold medal.
  
• Serve- vb. A way of putting the ball into play

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Juggle- use context clues

• We could use a serve like yours. Couldnt you
  juggle your time a little.
• Ron had to juggle his work schedule in order to
  find time to study for his classes.
• Juggle- vb. To handle more than one
• object or activity at a time

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Spare- use context clues

• Thats why Id taken the second route, but there
  still wasnt any money to spare.
• After everyone received a sandwich, there was
  only one to spare.
• Spare- vb. Left over, remaining extra

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Spirit- use context clues

• Volleyball season only lasts about two months,
  you know, said one. Wheres your school spirit
  ? asked another.
• All the fifth-graders cheered for the team to
  show their school spirit. The gym almost shook
  with our voices and clapping.
• Spirit- n. enthusiasm loyalty

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Deliberately- use context clues

• The next day in gym class, I deliberately hit all
  my serves low into the net and I messed up
  several setups, too.
• He deliberately hid his shoes so
  that the dog wouldnt find and chew on
  them.
• Deliberately- adv. When something is done on
  purpose or intentionally

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Shrill- use context clues

• I knew my voice was shrill, but I couldnt help
  it.
• Shrill- adj. high pitched in sound

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Abruptly- use context clues

• Abruptly, I shoved my chair back from the table
  and stamped into my room.
• Abruptly- adv. suddenly

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Pestering- use context clues

• Im sorry I cant join your team. Will you
  please stop asking me about it? And ask the other
  guys to stop pestering me?
• Pestering- vb. To bother

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Persuade-use context clues

• Think about joining the team Kyle. Everyone
  heard him, and soon several other boys started
  trying to persuade me.
• Persuade- vb. To convince