Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Three, Lesson Five: Unit Review


  1. sprang
  2. wrangle
  3. slang
  4. angle
  5. angel
  6. timber
  7. lumber
  8. logging
  9. forest
  10. sapling
  1. hardwood
  2. hemlock
  3. cedar
  4. pine
  5. almond
  6. walnut
  7. peanut
  8. pistachio
  9. chestnut
  10. acorn
Letter Patterns

This list contains several words with the ang letter pattern.


	sprang			wrangle			slang

	angle			angel

Another letter pattern is nut which is a word all by itself. Here are the words from the list containing nut.

	peanut			chestnut		walnut


Homophones and Homographs

Homophones are two words which are spelled differently, but which are pronounced the same:


	blue/blew		write/right		oar/ore/or

	won/one			sum/some		witch/which

	steel/steal		beet/beat		fir/fur

	wait/weight		wear/where		week/weak

	sent/cent		meat/meet		in/inn

Homographs are two words which are spelled identically, but which are pronounced differently and which have different meanings:

	live
	  1. as in: "They live in Elko."
	  2. as in: "The live worms will make good fishing bait."

	invalid
	  1. wrong or outdated
	  2. someone who is injured

	lead
	  1. a heavy metal (for instance, used in fishing weights)
	  2. to guide or show the way

	minute
	  1. 60 seconds
	  2. very small

	put
	  1. to place something on something
	  2. to hit a golf ball

	wind
	  1. a strong breeze
	  2. as in: "They wind the string around the stick."

	number
	  1. a value like 7, 12, or 20.
	  2. to feel more numb (as in to loose feeling)


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