Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Three, Lesson One: Letter Patterns

  1. think
  2. dunk
  3. plank
  4. thank
  5. blank
  6. chlorine
  7. nitrogen
  8. oxygen
  9. carbon
  10. helium
  1. hydrogen
  2. vapor
  3. mountains
  4. valleys
  5. desert
  6. great
  7. basin
  8. plateau
  9. canyon
  10. plate
Note on Alphabetical Order

Consider these two words: 


	plate			plateau
Which word comes first in alphabetical order? The answer is plate. Keep this in mind when you come across similar pairs of words.

Letter Patterns

Seven words from the list end with n: 


	nitrogen	oxygen		carbon

	helium		hydrogen	basin

	canyon

Seven of these words have n as their second to the last letter: 



	think		plank		mountains

	thank		blank		dunk

	chlorine

That's a lot of n's at or near the ends or words in this unit!

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