Antonym for Sizzle

Excellent point, C.

Not to try to steal your thunder but that was my first thought when I read the first post.

I think you're expecting a lot from Grade 4 students and teachers.

Students are taught larger place value, how to write a good summery, writing with trancitions, how to red large numbers, writing with a starter sentences and detail sentences.

GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Understand the components of a complete sentence.

Identify the subject and predicate in single-clause sentences.
For example (subject is in bold and predicate is in italics): Anna scored a goal.

Distinguish complete sentences from fragments.

Identify and correct ‘run-on’ sentences in which several main clauses are strung together without appropriate punctuation.

Identify the subject and verb in a sentence and understand that they must agree.

Identify and use different sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory.

Know the following parts of speech and how they are used: nouns, pronouns, verbs (action verbs and auxiliary verbs), adjectives (including articles), adverbs, conjunctions (and, but, or), prepositions and interjections.

Know how to use the following punctuation:

End punctuation: full stop, question mark or exclamation mark

Comma: between city and country in an address, in a series, after yes and no, before conjunctions that combine sentences, inside speech marks in dialogue.

Apostrophe: in contractions, in singular and plural possessive nouns

Quotation marks: for titles of poems, songs, short stories and magazine articles.

Speech marks for dialogue/direct speech

Understand what synonyms and antonyms are, and provide synonyms and antonyms for given words.

Use underlining or italics for the titles of books.

Know what prefixes and suffixes are and how they affect word meaning (see below).

Prefixes
im, in (as in ‘impossible’, ‘incorrect’)
non (as in ‘non-fiction’, ‘non-violent’)
mis (as is ‘misbehave’, ‘misspell’)
en (as in ‘enable’, ‘endanger’)
pre (as in ‘prehistoric’, ‘premature’)

Suffixes
ily, y (as in ‘easily’, ‘speedily’, ‘tricky’)
ful (as in ‘thoughtful’, ‘wonderful’)
able, ible (as in ‘washable’, ‘flexible’)
ment (as in ‘agreement’, ‘amazement’)

Review correct usage of problematic homophones
There, their, they’re
Your, you’re
Its, it’s
Here, hear
To, too, two

What about gurgle?

Sizzle can also be the quality of being exciting, hot and new. I like it as well to describe a mood or atmosphere.

... sizzle to moribund

those who actually think about what an antonym is, and what kind of words can have one, and make a reasoned case for sizzle not being capable of having an antonym.

no teacher is going to have the time to read 30 or 40 reasoned cases for sizzle not having an antonym (in the 20 - 30 minutes they'll have to look at one night's homework from one class)

I wonder why you think the word was included.

Turns out it was "Oh ha-ha that's a mistake I try to remember to correct every year."

just for that, I will take myself out of consideration.

hurry up...

so totally get the tempest in a teapot syndrome!

Mo sometimes came home with homework and I'd be all WTH is that all about?

I remember one time he had this crossword puzzle to do. I'm really, really good at crossword puzzles. There was one question that had a obvious answer but it didn't fit. He spent forever rereading and trying to find a word that would work, frustrated and in tears. Finally I just told him to fill in the boxes with question marks.

Turns out it was "Oh ha-ha that's a mistake I try to remember to correct ever year