Suffix -able, -ible

For this test you need to know that the suffix -able, -ible means capable of.
The test will be on November 18. 

Your spelling words are agreeable,  expandable, edible, visible, and audible. 

Each of these men is being agreeable.

Wouldn't you love to have an expandable bracelet like this?

The centerpiece is edible. Yum!

Visible light includes the wavelengths we can see.  Infrared and ultraviolet light are invisible to the human eye.

When something is audible to us, we can hear it.

Extra Credit:  Be able to tell what part of speech each of these is.  Hints:  They are all the same part of speech.  What part of speech do  -able and –ible make?

edible means “capable of being eaten”  

visible means “capable of being seen”   (extra credit --  Related words include vision and video.)

audible means “capable of being heard”  (extra credit -- Related words include audience and audio.)

November 8, 2010

Bell-Ringer: Paragraph Packet  -- Complete pages 4, 5, 6, and 7.  Notice that pages 6 and 7 go together.  Page 7 is the sentence bank mentioned in the directions on page 6.  Perfect Paragraph Packet.pdf


Reading Minutes:
A1 -- none
A2 -- none
A3 -- The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
A4 -- none

Spelling: 
A3 receives copies of -able, -ible assignment.
All students: Study your spelling a little every day.
    If you are absent, or lose your handout, see this blog for the spelling assignment.  For this week you can find it here: -able/-ible for spelling test

Legibility/correct formation of letters counts! Capitalize only letters that should be capitalized. 

audible -- as in audio, auditorium,  audition
visible -- as in vision, video

Extra credit:  According to word parts, what does portable mean?  Look it up.
You could try  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/portable 
See the entry from the World English Dictionary.

More of the History of Our Language.

Can you tell why we use the words "pig" and "pork" as we do?

History of the English Language PowerPoint 

Cloze Notes for History of the English Language PowerPoint

And the Spanish Language, too! 

Reminders:
If you don't have the packet, you need to get one, and catch up on pages 1, 2, and 3.
Perfect Paragraph Packet.pdf

Extra Credit: What does semordnilap  mean?  See the nswer below.  Be the first to tell me for 5 points extra credit.

Brian P. Cleary

Semordnilap is a word or phrase that spells a different word or phrase backwards, as in this pair: Dennis –> sinned. "Semordnilap" is a 20th Century coined word which is "palindromes" spelled backwards. Among the longest single-word English examples: stressed –> desserts.

-able/-ible for spelling test

Remember that there are no retakes on these tests.

                               Vocabulary/Spelling #2              Test on  November 18

 Suffixes to study:   -able  and -ible which both mean capable of

                                                                          and are used to create adjectives.

Words to learn for the spelling test:

1. agreeable                                    3. edible

2. expandable                                 4. visible

                                                         5. audible                       

                                   

You are responsible for learning the suffix and the spelling words.

Here is an effective method for studying your spelling words:           

1. Read the first word: look at it and say it.

2. Spell the word to yourself: touch each letter with your pencil and say the letter softly aloud to yourself.

3.  Close your eyes.  See the word in your mind.  Say each of the individual letters softly aloud to yourself.

4. Now, put your memory muscle to work.  Carefully print the word in the next three columns, and say each of the individual letters to yourself as you write it.

5.  Take a break of four or five minutes to give your long-term memory time to process the look of the word, its letters, and their order.  Leave behind your spelling and do something else for those minutes: read, do other homework, watch TV, listen to the radio.

6.  Then cover the correct spelling with your hand and print the word in the "Spell" column.

7.  Proofread: check the word you just wrote letter for letter against the original, using the tip of your pencil.

8.  If you spelled the word correctly, put a star in the final column and go on to the next word on the word study sheet.  If you misspelled it, repeat the process above, steps 1-6, this time printing the word in the "Spell Again" column.

9.  Repeat the procedure with each remaining word.  Again, the study process for five words should take about twenty minutes. 

                                              *Do not capitalize these words.

Word	Write the Word	Write the Word	Write the Word	Spell	Spell Again
agreeable
expandable
edible
visible
audible

Extra Credit:  Be able to tell what part of speech each of these is.  Hints:  They are all the same part of speech.  What part of speech do  -able and –ible make?

edible means “capable of being eaten”  

visible means “capable of being seen”   (extra credit --  Related words include vision and video.)

audible means “capable of being heard”  (extra credit -- Related words include audience and audio.)