Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Fourteen, Lesson Three: Abbreviations

  1. ignite
  2. write
  3. bite
  4. kite
  5. quite
  6. quiet
  7. quit
  8. cowboy
  9. pillow
  10. yellow
  1. protozoa
  2. bacteria
  3. microorganism
  4. microbes
  5. terminal
  6. tower
  7. pollution
  8. breakdown
  9. microscope
  10. decompose
Abbreviations

Here are some abbreviations for the months of the year: 


	ABBREVIATION		FULL WORD
	 Jan.			 January
	 Feb.			 February
	 Mar.			 March
	 Apr.			 April
	 Aug.			 August
	 Sept.			 September
	 Oct.			 October
	 Nov.			 November
	 Dec.			 December
	

Notice that May, June, and July do not have abbreviations.
The states of the United States all have two letter abbreviations. These do not use a period at the end and both letters are capitalized. Here are a few examples: 

	ABBREVIATION		FULL WORD
	 NV			 Nevada
	 ID			 Idaho
	 ME			 Maine
	 CA			 California
	 UT			 Utah
	 AZ			 Arizona
	 TX			 Texas

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