Words with double consonants

Exercise ExpressGrade 4

Week 6

Definition1: a portable container for holding liquids usually with a neck and mouth made of glass or plastic

Examples: (n) bottle of honey

babybottle bottle of water What is it like?

-jar-receptacle-vessel

Jay has a very large bottle collection.

bottlebot-l

Definition1: equally distant from the extremes or outer limits2: central part

Examples (n) in the middle of the road

find the middle

(adj) exclamation point in the middle

What is it like?-average-between-center-intermediate

Being the middle child in a family can be a difficult position.

middlemid-l

Definition1: bovine animals, especially domesticated members of the genus Bos

Examples:

(n) cattle come in all different colors and sizes

What is it like?-stock-herd

The cattle on my grandpa’s farm are all Longhorns.

cattlekat-l

Definition1: to give out a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds2: a baby toy filled with small pellets that make sharp sounds when shaken

Examples: (n) baby toys

What is it like?-chatter-bewilder-distract

Joe’s little brother loved to play with a blue rattle.

rattlerat-l

Definition1: a nearly spherical body of gas contained in a liquid2: a domelike structure used to cover a swimming pool or tennis court

Examples: (n) blow a bubble soapbubble snow bubble

speech bubble

What is it like?-erupt-murmur-ripple

Jeff was able to blow a huge soap bubble.

bubblebuhb-uhl

Definition1: to lie or press closely, as for comfort or from affection

Examples: (v) he’s big and soft

a family snuggle

hug a teddy bear

What is it like?-nestle-cuddle-nuzzle-hug

Karen loves to snuggle with her little beagle.

snugglesnuhg-uhl

Definition1: a metal container used to boil liquids, cook foods

Examples: (n) whistling kettle

large cooking pot

no whistling from this kettle

What is it like?-vessel-pot

My grandma likes to use her kettle when she makes tea.

kettleket-l

Definition1: to laugh in a silly, often high-pitched way, especially with short, repeated gasps from juvenile amusement or nervous embarrassment

Examples: (n) sunflowers make me giggle

smiley face giggle

messy baby giggle

What is it like?-chortle-chuckle-snicker

Girls seem to giggle a lot more than boys.

gigglegig-uhl

Definition1: an uninterrupted segment of speech 2: one or more written letters or characters representing more or less exactly an element of speech

Examples:

(n) per|so|nal|i|ty

ex|pla|na|tion

nom|i|na|tion

mon|o|lith What is it like?-utter-articulate

Finding where one syllable stops and the next one starts can be hard in long words.

syllablesil-uh-buhl

Definition1: having hardness and rigidity but little strength2: easily damaged or destroyed3: a type of candy

Examples: (adj) starfish out of water become very brittle

old parchment paper is crispy

(n)this brittle is for eating

What is it like?-crisp-frail-stiff-nervous

Making peanut brittle in the microwave is easy.

brittlebrit-l

kettleket-l

Good writers reread and revise by adding, deleted, moving, or substituting.

We boil waterin the kettle.

Stretch It!

Fix It!

Good writers reread and edit.

we gived our babie aBotel of milk beCause he

Was hunger

Add It!

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Good readers make words with sounds.