By the Shores of Silver Lake Spelling and Vocabulary

Chapters 1-12

By the Shores of Silver Lake is one of the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The following has a list of words that can be used for spelling and vocabulary when reading the book. They are listed by chapter and there are ten words for each chapter. Next week more chapters will be added and a link to them placed here.

Chapters 1-13

Unexpected Visitors:

  1. unexpected
  2. visitor
  3. strange
  4. fever
  5. blind
  6. Wisconsin
  7. territory
  8. married
  9. afford
  10. jubilant

Grown Up

  1. frisk
  2. wrinkled
  3. instant
  4. polite
  5. hitched
  6. nudged
  7. gently
  8. comfortable
  9. slope
  10. truly

Riding in the Cars

  1. endless
  2. flurry
  3. September
  4. collar
  5. fault
  6. satisfaction
  7. guide
  8. conductor
  9. polished
  10. thirsty

 

End of the Rails

  1. depot
  2. hotel
  3. railroad
  4. embarrassed
  5. clatter
  6. prairie
  7. quiet
  8. slept
  9. office
  10. sensitive

Railroad Camp

  1. swift
  2. creaking
  3. complained
  4. easygoing
  5. chilly
  6. tomorrow
  7. debt
  8. scrimping
  9. peak
dim

The Black Ponies

  1. skipping
  2. breezy
  3. jolly
  4. harness
  5. fluttered
  6. hustling
  7. forgotten
  8. mane
  9. mass
  10. screeching

The West Begins

  1. brightly
  2. hearty
  3. enormous
  4. steadily
  5. sensibly
  6. subtracted
  7. buffalo
  8. bandana
  9. astonished
  10. feared

Silver Lake

  1. shadowy
  2. shafts
  3. obstinate
  4. shimmering
  5. blurred
  6. ruffled
  7. glittering
  8. harsh
  9. stable
  10. racket

 

Horse Thieves

  1. thieves
  2. yoke
  3. straightened
  4. wrinkle
  5. faint
  6. ceaseless
  7. stroke
  8. blotted
  9. curtain
  10. galloped

The Wonderful Afternoon

  1. harness
  2. tawny
  3. streamed
  4. pollywogs
  5. basin
  6. strain
  7. mustache
  8. behave
  9. gentle
  10. civilized

Payday

  1. subtract
  2. chores
  3. plain
  4. wildly
  5. nowhere
  6. wage
  7. business
  8. twilight
  9. confusion
  10. dangerous

Wings Over Silver Lake

  1. endlessly
  2. sorrowfully
  3. autumn
  4. content
  5. disappoint
  6. comfortable
  7. journey
  8. dawn
  9. beautiful
  10. plucked

 

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