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Target Skills
Reading Skills - Realistic Fiction, Cause and Effect, Graphics Organizers
Vocabulary Skill - Context Clues
Grammar Skill - Abbreviations
Phonics Skill - Schwa
Writing Skill - Sentences
Spelling Words
SCHWA- In many words, the schwa in an unaccented syllable gives no clue to its spelling: above, family, melon. The schwa can be spelled in a number of ways, but it always has the same sound.
| above | another | upon | animal |
| paper | open | family | travel |
| afraid | nickel | sugar | circus |
| item | gallon | melon | character |
| cardinal | Oregon | particular | dinosaur |