Level

4.1

Beginning exercises in the use of words learned.

Additional words are introduced to round out a basic vocabulary and a variety of exercises are presented to initiate the processes of written expression. Students make a transition from custom dictionaries to a commercial dictionary.

AMERICA’S PHONICS
Level 4.1
LESSON 16: (School)

Read the words and then complete the chart below by filling in the blanks with the phonetic versions of the words.

1. absent	6. chalk	11. divisible	16. scholarship
2. academic	7. chart	12. erase	17. script
3. approve	8. contest	13. legible	18. signature
4. assignment	9. degree	14. numerical	19. subtract
5. beat	10. dictionary	15. quotient	20. total

absent		divisible
ab sent	___________________________	di vis i ble	___________________________
academic		erase
ac a dem ic	___________________________	e rase	___________________________
approve		legible
ap prove	___________________________	leg i ble	___________________________
assignment		numerical
as sign ment	___________________________	nu mer i cal	___________________________
beat		quotient
beat	___________________________	quo tient	___________________________
chalk		scholarship
chalk	___________________________	schol ar ship	___________________________
chart		script
chart	___________________________	script	___________________________
contest		signature
con test	___________________________	sig na ture	___________________________
degree		subtract
de gree	___________________________	sub tract	___________________________
dictionary		total
dic tion ar y	___________________________	to tal	___________________________

AMERICA’S PHONICS
Level 4.1
LESSON 16: (School) (con’t)

Read the “parts of speech” words and the School words. Then complete the exercises below.

Nouns:	assignment	beat*	chalk	chart*
	contest*	degree	dictionary	quotient
	scholarship	script	signature	total*
Verbs:	approve	beat*	chart*	contest*
	erase	subtract	total*
Adjectives:	absent	academic	divisible	legible
	numerical

* These words can be used as more than one part of speech.

Read the columns of words and place the number of the predicate on the line in front of its subject.

	Subject		Predicate

___	Three students	1.	will receive numerical grades.
___	Arithmetic and geography	2.	must be legible.
___	Seventeen	3.	are absent today.
___	Our penmanship	4.	is not divisible by eight.
___	All students in the class	5.	are academic subjects.

All of the underlined words are ______________.

Use the “school” words to write two sentences of your own; separate the subjects from the predicates.

1. _______________________ ______________________
_______________________ ______________________

2. _______________________ ______________________
_______________________ ______________________

School Words

addition

alphabetize

arithmetic

blackboard

classroom

denominator

difference

diploma

division

education

fraction

geography

graduate

grammar

instruction

kindergarten

language

learn

lesson

library

literature

mathematics

memorize

minus

multiplication

number

numeral

numerator

penmanship

period

plural

plus

poetry

problem

punctuation

reading

singular

spelling

student

subject

subtraction

teacher

textbook

vocabulary