Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Fifteen, Lesson Three: Acronyms

  1. worm
  2. ferment
  3. firm
  4. swarm
  5. storm
  6. border
  7. boundary
  8. outside
  9. entrance
  10. clarify
  1. happened
  2. language
  3. beautiful
  4. understand
  5. complete
  6. classify
  7. group
  8. category
  9. similar
  10. identify
Acronyms

Acronyms are different than initializations. In an initialization you say the letters separately not as a word. Here are some initializations: 


	FBI: Federal Bureau of Investication

	UFO: unidentified flying object

	BLM: Bureau of Land Management

	EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

	CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

	UK: United Kingdom
Remember that an acronym is said as a word (not as a sequence of letters).

Here are a few more acronyms: 


	NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

	SWAT: Special Weapons Action Team

	SNAFU: situation normal, all fouled up

	MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Driving

	RIF: Reading is Fundamental

	SADD: Students Against Drunk Driving

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