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Study guide — test 2

Grade 1 · Writing · 20 words · the test is after lesson 39
For the grown-up at home. This is a short vocabulary test. Your child does not need to write anything tonight if they are tired — five minutes of talking is enough, and talking is better than copying. You do not need to read English well to help: ask your child to tell YOU what each word means, in any language. If they can explain it, they know it.

The words

occur — happen
assist — help
permit — let
reduce — make smaller
produce — make
method — the way to do it
evidence — proof
pattern — what repeats
effect — what it caused
source — where it came from
record — write down
measure — find how much
predict — say what will happen
suggest — put forward
increase — go up
accurate — exactly right
various — several kinds
recent — just happened
typical — the usual kind
major — the biggest

Three things to do, five minutes

  1. Cover and say. Cover the right-hand side. Your child says what each word means.
  2. Use it. Pick three words. Your child says a whole sentence with each one — out loud, not written.
  3. Find the hard one. Ask which word is hardest. Do that one twice more. That is the whole homework.
What is on the test. Matching each word to what it means · putting the right word in a gap · writing 3 sentences of their own. There is also one bonus word we have NOT taught — it does not count toward the score, so nobody should worry about it.