6th Grade 1st Semester Spelling and English Exam
Directions: Find each misspelled word, and write the correct spelling above it.

This week our local naeborhood association sent out a bulleten about a picnic. The new mayor wanted to entroduce himself in person, so he took the notices to every house. He was threw with the job by noon. We can asume he got to every house, but there is no prewf of that. Deliveries are not part of his rootine, but we have underrstood that this is a new kind of mayor. We hope it’s a sign of his generosity and gooddness . There are many legends about noble knights of medieval times who traveled the land defending the helpless against feerce intruders. With only their sword and sheeld, they were able to achive noble deeds, preventing the seiege of the castle. Other stories tell of knights who forced robbers to yeld their weapons, keeping them from causing further harm and mischeif. Kenji and his business partnor, Ed, are each about to perchase some land, but they are approaching their home construction differently. Kenji hired an architect to design his home. The architect and her construction formean have the final authority on the details of the house. Ed, on the other hand, is planning to build his home himself; theirfour, he and his carpintar will consern themselves with all of the major decisions. Building a tunel in the 1920s was a difficult and unplesant task. Every day, parshul progress was made toward the goal. A tipical problem was preventing soft muteriul from sliding into the hole as workers dug. Often two rivel digging crews worked from opposite sides. They met in the sentral area known as the “hole through.” This painting demonstrates his remarkable talint. Switzerland remained nutral during two world wars. The crule joke hurt his feelings. He was so angry that he was not behaving in a ratonal way. It is not leagle to park here so you will get a ticket. Read the lable before you buy the product. I watch the morning news on another chanell. The pilot looked downwurd toward the field below. This was going to an espeshully difficult landing because of the fog. He could just bearly make out the field. There was, aditonally, a strong wind from the west and heading eastward. The people in the control tower helped the pilot as he carefullie guided the small plane toward the runway. When he fienally landed, he said to his co-pilot that this was posibbly his toughest landing yet. Aisha was exhausted and felt faynt as she came off the basketball court after a dificullt third quarter. Her team was about to fullfil their goal of achieving a winning season. The frase that came to mind was “success takes efort. She knew that Coach Grassi would ahfer to put someone else in so that she could rest. But Aisha wanted to be out on the court to see her team eventually tryumf. Of all the trips you could take, a cruise on a paddle-wheel boat might be the most memorable. As you floated down the river at a cashual pace, the sights would amaze you. One of the most impressive is the vishion of the enormous wheel as it churns the water. Aside from the ussual relaxing activities of a pleasure trip, you could listen to a lecture on river lore or brouse through shops at the various stops. So step back into a time powered by steam, and you will come to the concluesun that this is the best way to spend a vacation.

Part 2: English Exam
Kinds of Sentences
Directions: Write the correct end punctuation for each sentence. Label each sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.
1. Have you ever seen any of Remington’s paintings____________________
2. His paintings are a record of life in the Old West _____________________
3. What action-filled paintings they are___________________
4. Describe the painting, please ___________________
5. Remington went to Yale University to study art ___________________

Complete Subjects and Predicates

Directions: Draw a line between the complete subject and the complete predicate. 6. An amphibian lives part of its life in water. 7. It spends the other part of its life on land. 8. This class of animals includes frogs, toads, and salamanders.

Simple Subjects and Predicates

Directions: Label the underlined words simple subject or simple predicate. 9. The first bird looked different from birds today.______________________ 10. It lived during the Age of Dinosaurs.______________________ 11. This creature had a long beak.______________________ 12. Sharp teeth lined its beak.______________________ 13. Its skeleton looked like a reptile’s. ______________________

Imperatives and Interrogatives
Directions: Write the simple subject of each sentence. 14. Look at that enormous statue of Abraham Lincoln. __________________ 15. Is this street Pennsylvania Avenue? __________________ 16. Please show me the White House. __________________ 17. Does the bus go to the White House? __________________

Compound Subjects
Directions: Underline the compound subjects in each sentence. 18. An orchestra or a band includes many different instruments. 19. Violins and cellos are both members of the string family. 20. Are basses and harps stringed instruments too? 21. Trumpets, trombones, and tubas are all brass instruments.

Compound Predicates

Directions: Underline the simple predicates in each compound predicate. 22. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and became famous. 23. People in earlier days wrote letters or sent telegrams. 24. Bell studied electricity and learned about sound. 25. He had trained teachers and taught children with hearing problems.

Compound Sentences

Directions: Write simple or compound to describe each sentence. 26. Air surrounds the earth, but we seldom see it. 27. Sound and light travel through the air. 28. Air moves, and we call this movement wind. 29. Air can contain fine sand or pollen. 30. Air is wet over the ocean, but desert air is dry.

Conjunctions
Write the conjunction that you find in each sentence. 31. My grandmother made cheesecake, and it was good. 32. She offered to put strawberries on it, but I didn’t want any. 33. My grandmother made it quick, yet it was still good.

Unit 2: Nouns

Lesson 1 Kinds of Nouns

Directions: Write each noun from the sentences below.

34. A huge fire once nearly destroyed Chicago.

35. The blaze lit up the sky like the Fourth of July.

36. The flames had a major effect on this city.

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Lesson 3 Plural Nouns

Directions: Write the plural form of each noun 37. country 46. zoo 38. toy 47. wolf 39. rash 48. valley 40. solo 49. child 41. ox 50. woman 42. hoof 51. army 43. crutch 52. Jones 44. mirror 53. street 45. moose 54. sheep

Possessive Nouns
Directions: Rewrite each group to include the possessive form

55. the basketball of Ellen

56. activities of children

57. Doris has a new record

58. cars of the Burnses

59. the films of Lucas

Proper Form

Directions: Circle the proper word for each sentence

60. My (doctor’s, doctors) name is Dr. Lewis.

61. The (nurses, nurse’s) are there to greet you right away.

62. There are many good (magazines, magazine’s) to look at.

63. After you are finished with the doctor, they will give you different (candy’s, candies).

64. I like going to Doctor (Lewises, Lewis’s) office.