Chapter 3 – Welcome to Dictionopolis
Chapter 4 – Confusion in the Market Place
Write T for True and F for False
1. _____ Milo befriends 2 watchdogs – one named Tick, and one named Tock.
2. _____ The watchdogs’ family has the responsibility of seeing that no one wastes times.
3. _____ Tock believes that time is the most precious possession.
4. _____ Milo and Tock arrive at Dictionopolis on Basket Day.
5. _____ Milo and Tock are admitted into Dictionopolis once they say the word “because”.
6. _____ King Azaz’s cabinet is composed of 10 very silly men.
7. _____ The Duke, the Minister, the Earl, the Count, and the Undersecretary each use synonyms
when they speak.
8. _____ Words are planted underground and are harvested in the fall of each year.
9. _____ Milo wants to buy some words, but he doesn’t have enough money.
10. _____ The letter E tastes much better than the letter X.
Suppose you are given the following letters: t, s, r, a, e, e, t. Write 15 words you could create using only these letters.
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Think of the way you speak to a friend. What 10 words MUST you have in order to carry on a good conversation?
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Circle the correct spelling of the following words:
purhaps perhaps perhapps perhapes
any thing enything any-thing anything
peaceful peacefull pieceful peacefill
speach speech speich speesh
vegtable veggietable vegetable veggetable
© Ellen Gabor, 2008