Beep! Fixing the Spelling in a Metal Detecting Journal
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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!
1.
Sort the misspelled words from Nadia's journal by the kind of mistake she made.
2.
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.
3.
Write the plural form of each word. Follow the spelling rules for plurals.
battery → key → patch → leaf →
4.
Nadia listed some things they found this month. Circle the three words that are spelled correctly.
5.
Which word correctly completes Nadia's sentence? The rusty key is made of ____.
6.
Which word correctly completes Nadia's sentence? We swept the detector slowly ____ the tall grass by the fence.
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
7.
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.
8.
Nadia also wrote buckel and buttin. Write each word the way the dictionary page spells it, without the dots.
buckel → buttin →
9.
The words on a dictionary page are in alphabetical order between the two guide words. Which word would also be found on this page?
10.
Nadia first wrote burried. Explain how the dictionary page helped her fix it, and what spelling rule the word buried follows.