Name: ____________________
Number: _____
Date: ____________
Theme 2 – Celebrating Traditions
Story 3: The Talking Cloth
Spelling Focus:
3-letter clusters and unexpected consonant patterns
Grade Level Spelling List
1. spring
6. strong
2. patch
7. watch
3. three
8. spread
4. know
9. throw
5. knee
10. wrap
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
street
write
strength
kitchen
witch
Challenge Spelling List
1. struggle
6. stretcher
2. thread
7. knuckle
3. sprinkle
8. dolphin
4. strict
9. complain
5. scramble
10. orchard
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
purchase
drench
tempt
wretch
notch
(lots of fruit trees)
(to buy)
(to soak)
(unhappy person)
(a cut at an angle)
Behavior
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
+
x
-
+
x
-
+
x
-
+
x
-
+
x
-
Key:
+ Above and beyond - (very rare)
x Good job
- Needs improvement
Vocabulary
1. collection – a group of objects with a common theme that are
gathered and sometimes displayed
Example: a rock collection, a stamp collection
2. collector – a PERSON who gathers things (such as rocks);
collector = person; collection = things
3. wealth – having plenty of money or other valuable things
synonym = rich; antonym = poverty
4. royalty – members of a royal family such as kings, queens, princesses,
or princes
5. embroidered – decorated by sewing designs with needle and thread or yarn
Example: I embroidered my name on my shirt.
6. symbol – a design that represents or stands for other things or ideas
Examples: + # @ % $
7. flourish – a showy way of doing something
Example: Magicians like to take off their cape with a flourish.
8. grubby – dirty
Example: Mom said I have to wash my grubby hands.
family love
never lie
Name ______________________________
Date ______________________
Spelling – ABC Order
Write YOUR spelling words in the boxes below (any order) then arrange them in ABC.
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a b c d e f g h I j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Write YOUR spelling words in ABC order on the lines below.
1. ___________________________________
2. ___________________________________
3. ___________________________________
4. ___________________________________
5. ___________________________________
6. ___________________________________
7. ___________________________________
8. ___________________________________
9. ___________________________________
10. ___________________________________
11. ___________________________________
12. ___________________________________
13. ___________________________________
14. ___________________________________
15. ___________________________________
Name _________________________ Number: _____
Date __________________
Spelling Fractions
Word
Consonants
Vowels
Example: Head
2/4
2/4
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Vowels: a e
i o u
Name ______________________________ Date __________________________
leadership
Spelling
Theme 2 – Story 3 - The Talking Cloth
Three-Letter Clusters and Unexpected Consonant Patterns mercy
Directions: Write the words you are having difficulty with 3 times each.
1. spring ____________________
____________________ ___________________
2. knee ____________________
____________________ _____________________
3. throw ____________________
____________________ ____________________
4. patch ____________________
____________________ ___________________
5. strong ___________________
____________________ ____________________
6. wrap ____________________
_____________________ ____________________
7. three ____________________
____________________ _____________________
8. watch ____________________
____________________ ____________________
9. street ____________________
____________________ ____________________
10. know ____________________
____________________ _____________________
11. spread ___________________
___________________ ____________________
12. write ____________________
____________________ _____________________
13. strength ____________________
14. kitchen ____________________
15. witch ____________________
____________________ _____________________
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____________________ _____________________
Name: ___________________________ Date: _________________
#_______
Vocabulary Test – Theme 2 – Story 3
The Talking Cloth
Directions: Circle the antonym (opposite) of the underlined word.
1. The superstar showed her great wealth by wearing lots of diamonds.
a. rich
b. important
c. rare
d. poverty
2. The child lost his collection of stamps when the wind blew.
a. Toys
b. A large group of the same type of things
c. A single item
d. book
Directions: Circle the synonym (same) for the underlined word.
3. Oscar extended the adinkra cloth on the floor with a flourish.
a. Flower
b. Toss
c. An elegant or waving motion
d. Bat
4. My uncle is a collector of cars.
a. A person who gathers or saves a lot of one object.
b. A football player
c. Someone who reads a lot.
d. Someone who sells all of their things.
5. Only royalty was allowed to wear the special adinkra cloth.
a. A student
b. A teacher
c. A person born to a king, queen, prince, princess and has royal blood.
d. A rockstar
6. My shirt is embroidered with brightly colored flowers.
a. Hand painted
b. Glued
c. Stiched with thread to make an object
d. Ironed on
7. Adinkra cloths have many symbols that are important to the Ashanti people.
a. Letters that spell out words
b. Beautiful colors
c. designs
d. An instrument you play in the band
leadership
mercy
Name ______________________
Number: ______
Date ________________
Vocabulary Test
Theme 2 - Story 3
The Talking Cloth
good luck
____ collection
A. plenty of money or other valuable things
____ collector
B. decorated by sewing designs with needle
and thread or yarn
____ wealth
C. a design that represents or stands for
other things or ideas
____ grubby
D. a showy way of doing something
____ royalty
E. a group of objects with a common theme; often
gathered and displayed
____ embroidered
F. members of a royal family, such as kings,
queens, princesses, or princes
____ symbol
G. a PERSON who gathers things
or has a collection
____ flourish
H. dirty
Name: _____________________________ Number: ________ Date: __________
Spelling Test
The Talking Cloth
Circle the word that is spelled correctly
1
spring
wacth
strongth
kichen
2
pach
thee
know
wrapp
3
nee
patch
thro
wich
4
whitch
rite
street
spead
5
wach
kichen
streng h
witch
6
throw
strong g
writ
pach
Circle the word that is spelled incorrectly
7
spring
strong
stret
kitchen
8
know
kichen
strength
write
9
patch
knee
wrap
spred
10
throe
watch
street
strength
11
rite
kitchen
spread
wrap
12
knee
spread
stregth
witch
13
spead
witch
patch
spring
14
wrap
strength
rite
kitchen
15
kno
witch
strong
wrap
leadership
mercy