Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Seventeen, Lesson Five: Unit Review


  1. credit
  2. canyon
  3. crack
  4. creek
  5. critters
  6. formation
  7. identity
  8. metamorphic
  9. sediment
  10. igneous
  1. quartz
  2. granite
  3. pumice
  4. calcite
  5. mica
  6. codes
  7. regulations
  8. government
  9. tribal
  10. reservation

Prefixes: Mis- and Mal-

Here are some words which begin with the mis- prefix:


	misbehave			misspell		miscount

	mislead				misfortune		misjudge

	misinform			mismatch		misfire

The prefix mis- means bad or wrong or incorrect.

Here are some words which begin with the mal- prefix:


	malady			malice			malaria

	malfunction		maladjusted		malodor

	malnutrition		malpractice		maladaptive

The prefix mal- means bad or wrong or incorrect or poor.


Rhymes

Here are some more sets of words that rhyme:


	bone: lone, phone, stone, tone, zone

	blink: think, shrink, sink, wink

	big: dig, fig, pig, twig, wig

	cheep: deep, jeep, keep, sheep, sleep, weep

Most of the time words with the same letter pattern rhyme. This is not always the case as the following examples illustrate:

	DO NOT RHYME:

	doll - roll			give - wive


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