THE TREE THAT WOULD NOT DIE
                                   Lesson 9 - two pages
                    (See the Texas flag by the tree, and the night scene.)
                                    Vocabulary - Word study

Phonograms: th    s    ck    y    ed    qu    er   e   o

slave-owners     Mexican-Americans   nose-dive

get-togethers

hack      rock      pick

nickels

happy      jolly      merry

penny


pennies

four     soul     court

pour


poured

quit     queen     quilt

liquid

mother     gather     ladder

shudder


shuddered

slept     kept     wept

crept

smiled     hoping     eraser

later

skipper    mopping     nodded

bigger

EXTRA ACTIVITY:

Look at the last 4 words you read. Write the root word for each of
the words. Which spelling rule was used to add the suffixes to the words?