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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Spelling: Unstressed Vowels 1 (Questions)

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This elementary school English spelling quiz takes an initial look at unstressed vowels. Unstressed vowels are letters that are not easy to hear in a word. Polysyllabic words - that is, words with more than one syllable - can be tricky to spell in English. This is because English words are pronounced with more stress on some syllables than others. Unstressed syllables all sound the same - they have the vowel sound 'schwa', which looks like this: ə. The 'e' in 'carpet' sounds exactly the same as the 'a' in 'zebra'. So learning ways of memorizing the words becomes important.

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1. Something which shows the days, weeks and months of a year.
[ ] Calinder
[ ] Calendar
[ ] Calindar
[ ] Calendir
2. Something that is by itself; not joined with anything.
[ ] Seperate
[ ] Sepiret
[ ] Sepirete
[ ] Separate
3. Another word for essential.
[ ] Necessary
[ ] Necissery
[ ] Necessery
[ ] Necissary
4. A feeling of wanting to know about something; also, to your own advantage - it will be in your own ____.
[ ] intirust
[ ] inturist
[ ] interest
[ ] intrest
5. A room or a building in which books are kept; a place where books can be borrowed.
[ ] Libury
[ ] Libry
[ ] Liberry
[ ] Library
6. A spoken or written account of something or someone.
[ ] Descreption
[ ] Descripshun
[ ] Description
[ ] Discription
7. To think of something from the past, or something which had been forgotten.
[ ] Rumember
[ ] Remembir
[ ] Remember
[ ] Rember
8. Not the same as something else.
[ ] Diffrent
[ ] Different
[ ] Diffirent
[ ] Differint
9. The refusal to go along with something.
[ ] Resistance
[ ] Resistence
[ ] Risistence
[ ] Risistance
10. A book or other resource in which you can find words and their meanings arranged alphabetically.
[ ] Dictioniry
[ ] Dicshunery
[ ] Dictionery
[ ] Dictionary
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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Spelling: Unstressed Vowels 1 (Answers)
1. Something which shows the days, weeks and months of a year.
[ ] Calinder
[x] Calendar
[ ] Calindar
[ ] Calendir
You might think it should be 'calender' but it's not!
2. Something that is by itself; not joined with anything.
[ ] Seperate
[ ] Sepiret
[ ] Sepirete
[x] Separate
Some people like to remember that there is 'a rat' in 'separate'.
3. Another word for essential.
[x] Necessary
[ ] Necissery
[ ] Necessery
[ ] Necissary
Water is essential, or necessary, for life.
4. A feeling of wanting to know about something; also, to your own advantage - it will be in your own ____.
[ ] intirust
[ ] inturist
[x] interest
[ ] intrest
If you can remember the two 'e's in 'interest', you'll also be able to spell 'interesting' and 'interested'.
5. A room or a building in which books are kept; a place where books can be borrowed.
[ ] Libury
[ ] Libry
[ ] Liberry
[x] Library
A librarian works in a library.
6. A spoken or written account of something or someone.
[ ] Descreption
[ ] Descripshun
[x] Description
[ ] Discription
Remember that 'description' comes from 'describe' - both share a 'de-' prefix.
7. To think of something from the past, or something which had been forgotten.
[ ] Rumember
[ ] Remembir
[x] Remember
[ ] Rember
Thinking of 're-' and 'member' can help you remember.
8. Not the same as something else.
[ ] Diffrent
[x] Different
[ ] Diffirent
[ ] Differint
'To differ' means 'to disagree', which might be easier to remember - add '-ent' for 'different' or '-ence' for 'difference'.
9. The refusal to go along with something.
[x] Resistance
[ ] Resistence
[ ] Risistence
[ ] Risistance
The endings, '-ance' and '-ence', can be tricky to remember.
10. A book or other resource in which you can find words and their meanings arranged alphabetically.
[ ] Dictioniry
[ ] Dicshunery
[ ] Dictionery
[x] Dictionary
A dictionary is a very handy thing to own.