Instructions: Students listen to a recording in which the teacher explains the

vocabulary and do the vocabulary practice.

Vocabulary Practice
In your reading notebook, write sentences with the vocabulary words. The teacher will
check your sentences when we come back to school.
1. underachiever: _______________________________________________
2. took: _______________________________________________
3. wrote: _______________________________________________
4. lazy: _______________________________________________
5. graduate: _______________________________________________
6. college: _______________________________________________
7. dig: _______________________________________________
8. character: _______________________________________________
9. learning disabilities: _______________________________________________

Write the following practice on your reading notebook.

Read the definitions and write the correct vocabulary word.

It is a place where you can study a major:_____________________
Reduced ability to understand new or complex information: _________________
One of the persons of drama or novel:______________________
Past tense of the verb write:________________________
To remove earth with a tool or with hands:______________________
A person who has completed school, high school or university:______________
A person that is less successful than he/she should be at school or
work:_________________
Past tense of the verb write:_______________________
A person that does not want to make any effort to do anything:_____________________

Fill in the blanks with the correct vocabulary Word.

1.
2. took- wrote- dig- lazy- college- graduate- learning disability- character
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Who's your favorite Disney cartoon ______________________?
I ____________________ my friend a card for his birthday.
I ___________________ a taxi from the station to the hotel.
They ___________________ a small hole in the sand to bury their eggs.
Tom plans to go to _______________ next year.
Sixth graders are going to ___________________ this year.
children with a _________________ ______________________ may have trouble
following directions at school.
He's not __________________. On the contrary, I think he's a hard worker.