This English worksheet will provide learning fun along with excellent practice with spelling and vocabulary words. It is suitable for students in approximately grades 5 - 8.
Practice pages like this provide a nice change-of-pace from traditional English textbook assignments in grammar or isolated spelling skills. Be sure to try similar pages like this with your students to keep them engaged in learning, the FUN way! n I've provided links to several pages below.
I've compiled a list of words that contain the letters TEN. See if you can figure out each word. Here's a glimpse of the printable page. The full text also appears below.
1. young cat _ _ _ TEN
2. a game played with rackets TEN _ _ _
3. spoiled, as in fruit _ _ _ TEN
4. an extremely bad smell _ TEN _ _
5. a snap, or other item, that holds things together _ _ _ TEN _ _
6. insects have a pair of these _ _ TEN _ _
7. often used on camping trips TEN _ _
8. a spatula, or other kitchen gadget _ TEN _ _ _
9. not hard or tough TEN _ _ _
10. satisfied, comfortable _ _ _ TEN _
11. the number of people present _ _ TEN _ _ _ _ _
12. a fat used in baking _ _ _ _ TEN _ _ _
13. recorded with paper and pencil _ _ _ _ TEN
14. a ligament or cord of dense tissue TEN _ _ _
15. give attention with the ear _ _ _ TEN
Check the printable page for answers.
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While you are giving your students English worksheets like the ones here, because to keep stimulating their vocabulary skills. To help you do that, I've recently added several graded vocabulary word lists, from Kindergarten on up. Here are just three samples.
2nd Grade Vocabulary Words : Challenge your 2nd grade students with a BIG list of 200 words to use in their speaking vocabularies. Soon, they will be reading and writing these words, too! An engaging graphic groups 100 of the words into these categories: Calendar, Animals, Science, Math, Foods, Homophone Sets, Adjectives, Verbs, People and Places. Mammals and molecules in motion, oh my!
6th Grade Vocabulary Words - Improve your students' understanding of LOTS of areas of learning by covering these 200 important words! You'll find many ways to implement these words into your everyday conversations, teaching, and learning. I've also included links to other 6th grade word lists and resources. You might want to explain a mutineer's strategy to retrieve an amphibious vessel from the ocean.
Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.
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