Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Five, Lesson One: Letter Patterns


  1. give
  2. five
  3. alive
  4. drive
  5. strive
  6. shack
  7. private
  8. supply
  9. gases
  10. poisonous
  1. gold
  2. copper
  3. silver
  4. zinc
  5. talc
  6. lead
  7. shaft
  8. tunnel
  9. strip
  10. tailings
Minerals

You probably noticed that several of these words are the names of minerals. They don't really have many letter patterns in common, but the fact that they are all minerals is worth mentioning.


	gold
	copper
	silver
	zinc
	talc
	lead

The following words have double consonants in the middle of the word.

	supply
	copper
	silver
	tunnel
	
Only four words in the list have three consonants in a row:

	strive
	supply
	strip
	tailings

Here are the words with double vowels:

	poisonous
	lead
	tailings
	

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