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Beep! Fixing the Spelling in a Metal Detecting Journal

Fix the spelling in a girl's metal detecting journal: sort and correct mistakes, spell plurals and look-alike words, and use a dictionary page.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.5.2.e

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students identify and correct common spelling mistakes in grade-level words.
Students apply spelling rules to write plurals and choose between look-alike words.
Students use a dictionary page to check spellings and word forms.

How to use

Read Nadia's journal together, then let students work through the sections on their own. Have a classroom dictionary ready so students can check words they are unsure of.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.5.2.e

Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

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Beep! Fixing the Spelling in a Metal Detecting Journal

Help Nadia check the words in her hobby journal.

Nadia's journal

Read about Nadia's hobby and her journal entry. The words in dark print are misspelled.

On Saturday mornings, Nadia and her grandfather go metal detecting at Hillcrest Park. The park office gave them permission, and they always fill in every hole they dig. When the detector beeps, there may be something metal under the grass. Nadia writes about each trip in her hobby journal, but she writes fast, and a few words come out misspelled.

Nadia's journal, Saturday: It was a wierd morning at the park. Fog hid the ballfield untill almost nine o'clock. My best freind, Kai, came with us for the first time. Grandpa showed us how to sweep the detector slowly, just above the grass. Near the swings it beeped, and we dug up a brass button. Kai said it was truely the oldest thing he had ever held. The biggest suprise came by the old goverment building at the edge of the park: a rusty key with a tiny star on it!

Sort the misspelled words from Nadia's journal by the kind of mistake she made.

untillwierdsuprisetruelygovermentfreind

A letter is missing	There is an extra letter	Two letters are switched

Write these words from Nadia's journal correctly.

wierd →
freind →
suprise →
goverment →

Spelling rules

Nadia is making lists of what they used and what they found. Use spelling rules to help her.

Write the plural form of each word. Follow the spelling rules for plurals.

battery →
key →
patch →
leaf →

Nadia listed some things they found this month. Circle the three words that are spelled correctly.

ziperthimblejewleryscissersbracelethorsshoewhistle

Which word correctly completes Nadia's sentence?
The rusty key is made of ____.

A. medal
B. mettle
C. metal
D. meddle

Which word correctly completes Nadia's sentence?
We swept the detector slowly ____ the tall grass by the fence.

A. threw
B. through
C. thorough
D. though

Use a dictionary page

Nadia checks some words in her dictionary. Use this page from it to answer the questions.

Guide words: bucket — button
buck·et (noun) a round container with a handle, used for carrying things
buck·le (noun) a metal clasp that fastens a belt or a shoe strap
bur·y (verb) bur·ied, bur·y·ing to put something in the ground and cover it up
but·ton (noun) a small, flat, round piece sewn onto clothes to fasten them

Nadia wrote, "Someone burried this key a long time ago." Use the dictionary page to write the past tense of the word bury correctly.

Someone this key a long time ago.

Nadia also wrote buckel and buttin. Write each word the way the dictionary page spells it, without the dots.

buckel →
buttin →

The words on a dictionary page are in alphabetical order between the two guide words. Which word would also be found on this page?