Language Arts Grade Five

Unit One, Lesson One: Letter Patterns

  1. praise
  2. impress
  3. present
  4. proud
  5. pretend
  6. wetness
  7. supply
  8. liquid
  9. underground
  10. spring
  1. well
  2. aquifer
  3. bottle
  4. plumbing
  5. county
  6. state
  7. mining
  8. lonely
  9. highway
  10. road
The pr Letter Pattern

This list contains several words with the pr letter pattern. Here are some more words with the pr letter pattern: 


	president	precious	practice

	practical	probably	prank

	priest		price		present
Another letter pattern which appears in the list a few times is the -ing letter pattern as in spring, plumbing, and mining. Here are some more words with the -ing letter pattern. 

	panning		flying		thing

	falling		gardening	drifting

As you can see the -ing letter pattern often appears at the end of a word.

Alphabetizing A List of Words

You are expected at this point to be able to alphabetize a list of words and so before you actually have to do this in an activity we will quickly review how to alphabetize a list of words. Some people say that the list should be put into ABC order which means the same as alphabetizing the list.

Inspect this list of words: 


   pain
   brain
   drain
   train
   grain
   stain
In order to alphabetize these words (put them in ABC order) you must compare the first letter of each word. A quick inspection of the list tells you that the word "brain" comes first since no other word in this short list starts with an "a" or "b."

The next word in alphabetical order is "drain." The last word in alphabetical order is "train." So, our alphabetized list would look like this: 


  brain
  drain
  grain
  pain
  stain
  train
Sometimes you have to look past the first letter to figure out alphabetical order. Take a close look at this short list: 


  strain
  stain
  state
All three of these words have st as their first two letters. The first difference comes at the third letter. The words "stain" and "state" both havae an "a" at the third spot and the word "strain" has an "r." Since "r" comes after "a" in the alphabet the word "strain" is the last in alphabetical order. The words "state" and "stain" have the same letters until the fourth letter. The "i" in "stain" comes earlier in the alphabet than the "t" in "state," and so "stain" comes before "state" in alphabetical order. Our list reordered alphabetically becomes: 

  stain
  state
  strain

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