SPELLING WORDS

Commonly confuzzled words.

I GET CORNFUZED!

COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS Their, there and they’re

Their-remember this one is a pronoun referring to some group’s possession.

THEIR COWS EAT MY NEIGHBOR’S GRASS ALL THE TIME.

THEIR PARENTS WANT TO KEEP THE COW PIES FOR FERTILIZER.

THERE-LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Put the monkey’s bananas over there by

the fly swatter.

THEY’RE-THEY + ARE People who eat lots of seafood are often

healthy, but they’re crabby!

They’re going to go crawl under a rock on the ocean floor now so that we don’t have to deal with their crabby attitudes.

PRACTICE: FILL IN THE BLANKS There their or they’re 1- Look up ___________! The sun is winking at

me. 2-____________ city was crushed when

Godzilla took her baby for a walk through town.

3-Don’t go to _____________party; it is going to be trouble!

4-We think __________ a bad influence on the neighborhood.

5- Do not swim in ____________; it is known to have sea monsters that eat you when you splash.

THREW & THROUGH Threw is an action verb in the past

tense. It shows that some one did something to some one or something.

When Uncle Scooter threw his computer out the window, it was snared by a slightly sick seagull with super muscular wings.

THROUGH- Through is a prepositional adverb that

shows something passing from one side to another or one end of something to another.

Push the thread through the needle before you try to mend your holey socks!

PRACTICE: FILL IN THE BLANKS When King Kong burst ____________ the

door, his bank account was charged for the damages.

The first baseman _________ the ball to home plate so the catcher could stop the incoming home run.

Watch out or you will go __________ emotional upheaval if you date him! He is bad news.

Going ____________ the tunnel, Thaddeus ____________ his trash out the car window.