spelling tip

Take time to study your spelling a little bit each night. Studying your words in a variety of ways helps, such as writing them down, spelling them out loud to a parent or pretending to write them out in the air.

spelling units

Choose this week's spelling list to help you further practice at home.

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5
Unit 7 Unit 8 Unit 9 Unit 10 Unit 11
Unit 13 Unit 14 Unit 15 Unit 16 Unit 17
Unit 19 Unit 20 Unit 21 Unit 22 Unit 23
Unit 25 Unit 26 Unit 27 Unit 28 Unit 29
Unit 31 Unit 32 Unit 33 Unit 34 Unit 35

 

Unit 1

We do not use Unit 1. We begin with Unit 2 in our Spelling Workbook.

Unit 2 – Words with kn, gn, wr, or mb

KN
1. knot
2. know
3. unknown
4. knit
5. knob
6. kneel
WR
7. writing
8. wrist
9. wreck
10. wreath
11. wrench
12. wren

GN
13. sign
14. design
15. assign
MB
16. climb
17. thumb
18. limb
19. comb
20. lamb
Challenge Words: bologna, lasagna, align, cologne, wrestler

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Unit 3 – Words with the Consonant Sounds /k/ and /f/

C
1. care
2. because
3. cover
4. record
K
5. brake
6. Kansas
CK
7. track
8. pocket
9. snack
10. attack

PH
11. photo
12. alphabet
13. dolphin
14. elephant
FF
15. stiff
16. muffin
17. giraffe
GH
18. enough
19. laughed
20. rough
Challenge Words: cuckoo clock, freckles, sheriff, autograph, headphones

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Unit 4 – Words with the –ed or –ing Ending

-ED
1. happened
3. opened
5. danced
7. chased
9. studied
11. worried
13. dried
15. stopped
17. robbed
19. slipped

-ING
2. happening
4. opening
6. dancing
8. chasing
10.studying
12. worrying
14. drying
16. stopping
18. robbing
20. slipping
Challenge Words: skied, skiing, argued, arguing, occurred, occurring

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Unit 5 – Words with the –er or –est Endings

-ER
1. smaller
3. deeper
5. larger
7. closer
9. happier
11. scarier
13. funnier
15. hotter
17. sadder
19. fatter

-EST
2. smallest
4. deepest
6. largest
8. closest
10. happiest
12. scariest
14. funniest
16. hottest
18. saddest
20. fattest
Challenge Words: weirder, weirdest, gentler, gentlest, angrier, angriest

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Unit 6

This is a Review Unit. Your child will bring home an individual list for this unit.

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Unit 7 – Words with sh, ch, tch, wh

SH
1. shown
2. short
3. shelter
4. punish
5. flashlight
6. trash
CH
7. chocolate
8. church
9. chapter
10. March

TCH
11. watch
12. kitchen
13. pitcher
14. catcher
WH
15. whatever
16. anywhere
17. whenever
18. wheat
19. awhile
20. somewhere
Challenge Words: squash, champion, touchdown, crutches, wherever

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Unit 8 – Words with Double Consonants

RR
1. tomorrow
2. borrow
3. worry
4. current
FF
5. different
6. offer
7. suffer
PP
8. supper
9. slippers
10. grasshopper

TT
11. matter
12. written
13. bottle
14. lettuce
DD
15. ridden
16. odd
17. paddle
18. shudder
BB
19. bubble
20. hobby
Challenge Words: Mississippi, recess, impossible, antennas, allowance


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Unit 9 – Words with Short and Long E

Long E
EA
1. speak
2. reason
3. beat
4. least
5. steal
6. treat
7. season

Short E
15. them
16. went
17. fence


EY
8. money
9. valley
10. honey
11. monkey
12. hockey
13. alley
14. donkey


18. credit
19. engine
20. contest
Challenge Words: escaped, celery, squeaked, bleachers, jersey

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Unit 10 – Short Vowels – A, I, O, U

Short A – spelled a
1. band
2. cash
3. January
4. blanket
5. backpack
Short U – spelled ou
6. trouble
7. young
8. cousin
9. couple
10. tough

Short O – spelled o
11. pond
12. block
13. forgot
14. closet
15. chop
Short I – spelled i
16. into
17. river
18. with
19. finger
20. window
Challenge Words: package, Pilgrims, ignored, o’clock, southern

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Unit 11 – Long Vowels – A, I, and O

Long A
1. station
2. danger
3. April
4. vacation
5. cable
6. bacon

Long I
13. wild
14. behind
15. hide
16. decide

Long O
7. whole
8. broke
9. drove
10. smoke
11. remote
12. stole


17. pint
18. lion
19. invite
20. arrive
Challenge Words: operation, behavior, private, Rhode Island, apologize

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Unit 12

This is a Review Unit. Your child will bring home an individual list for this unit.

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Unit 13 – Related Words

1. able
3. sign
5. mean
7. deal
9. soft
11. relate
13. heal
15. meter
17. compose
19. crumb

2. ability
4. signal
6. meant
8. dealt
10. soften
12. relative
14. health
16. metric
18. composition
20. crumble
Challenge Words: direct, direction, personal, personality, invade, invasion

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Unit 14 – Consonant Sounds j, ks, kw

/ks/ spelled x or xc
1. except
2. excited
3. explain
4. expect
5. Texas
6. excellent
7. relax
8. extra

/j/ spelled ge or dge
9. change
10. village
11. edge
12. charge
13. bridge
14. fudge

/kw/ spelled qu
15. quick
16. equal
17. queen
18. quart
19. liquid
20. quilt


Challenge Words: advantage, pledge, excess, explosion, question

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Unit 15 – Adding -s and -es

1. monkeys
3. friends
5. holidays
7. supplies
9. hobbies
11. mysteries
13. beaches
15. classes
17. ashes
19. glasses

2. flowers
4. tigers
6. delays
8. enemies
10. memories
12. eyelashes
14. circuses
16. taxes
18. bunches
20. suffixes
Challenge Words: accidents, skis, injuries, libraries, couches

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Unit 16

1. coming
2. always
3. almost
4. didn’t
5. upon
6. wasn’t
7. until
8. during
9. want
10. father

11. hamster
12. a lot
13. ugly
14. washed
15. hotel
16. missed
17. eleven
18. crazy
19. lazy
20. feelings
Challenge Words: delivery, magnet, replied, drowned, mustard

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Unit 17 - Contractions

1. we’ll
2. I’m
3. I’d
4. you’d
5. I’ll
6. we’ve
7. it’s
8. that’s
9. what’s
10. doesn’t

11. he’ll
12. she’ll
13. they'll
14. they’d
15. he’d
16. would’ve
17. could’ve
18. wouldn’t
19. shouldn’t
20. let’s
Challenge Words: it'll, who'll, might've, mustn't, we'd

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Unit 18

This is a Review Unit. Your child will bring home an individual list for this unit.

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Unit 19 – Getting Letters in Correct Order

Using IE
1. piece
2. friend
3. field
4. believe

Using AI
5. said
6. again

Using EA
7. heard
8. heart

Using LE
9. rattle
10. pickle

Using EI
11. weird
12. height
13. weight
14. neighbor

Other
15. asked
16. only
17. brought
18. build
19. toes
20. hospital

Challenge Words: interview, poetry, sword, tongue, unusual

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Unit 20 – Vowels with R

Using OUR
1. fourth 11. dirty
2. course 12. first
3. pour 13. girlfriend
4. fourteen 14. thirsty
5. court 15. skirt

Using ER
6. serve
7. herself
8. certain
9. nerve
10. perfect

Using IR
11. dirty
12. first
13. girlfriend
14. thirsty
15. skirt

Using OR
16. storm
17. morning
18. forest
19. Florida
20. form
Challenge Words: resources, unfortunately, commercial, determine, whirl

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Unit 21 – Vowels Sounds in PUT and OUT

Using OU
1. loud
2. house
3. outside
4. mountain
5. cloud
6. proud

Using OW
7. power
8. however
9. shower
10. crowd

Using U
11. bush
12. July
13. cushion
14. butcher
15. pudding

Using OO
16. stood
17. took
18. wood
19. football
20. brook
Challenge Words: barefoot, jury, coward, thousand, announced

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Unit 22 – Vowels Sounds in FEW and MOON

Using OO
1. cool
2. mood
3. shoot
4. school
5. shampoo

Using UI
6. fruit
7. suit
8. juice
9. bruise
10. cruise

Using U-consonant-E or EW
11. huge
12. excuse
13. few
14. confuse
15. nephew
16. curfew

Using U
17. usual
18. pupil
19. fuel
20. menu
Challenge Words: commute, universe, reunion, fireproof, pursuit

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Unit 23 - Homophones

1. wood
2. would
3. too
4. to
5. two
6. there
7. their
8. they’re
9. your
10. you’re

11. beat
12. beet
13. break
14. brake
15. clothes
16. close
17. piece
18. peace
19. thrown
20. throne
Challenge Words: guessed, guest, aisle, isle, waist, waste

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Unit 24

This is a Review Unit. Your child will bring home an individual list for this unit.

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Unit 25

1. often
2. might
3. they
4. remember
5. finally
6. really
7. several
8. everyone
9. interesting
10. everybody

11. known
12. caught
13. surprised
14. island
15. swimming
16. camera
17. December
18. evening
19. beginning
20. February
Challenge Words: broccoli, kindergarten, cabinet, serious, temperature

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Unit 26 – Compound Words

1. baseball
2. basketball
3. upstairs
4. myself
5. highway
6. classroom
7. anyway
8. newspaper
9. something
10. sometimes

11. chalkboard
12. earrings
13. nighttime
14. motorcycle
15. downstairs
16. softball
17. weekend
18. classmate
19. doorbell
20. driveway
Challenge Words: courtroom, ourselves, heartbroken, teammate, skateboard

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Unit 27 – Suffixes: -ful, -ly, and -ion

1. powerful
2. peaceful
3. beautiful
4. slowly
5. safely
6. daily
7. suddenly
8. carefully
9. action
10. location

11. cheerful
12. painful
13. thoughtful
14. weekly
15. lately
16. truthfully
17. hopefully
18. invention
19. correction
20. pollution

Challenge Words:grateful, suspenseful, completely, exactly, separation

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Unit 28 – Suffixes: -less, -ment, and -ness

1. helpless
2. careless
3. hopeless
4. payment
5. statement
6. movement
7. goodness
8. softness
9. brightness
10. business

11. spotless
12. breathless
13. wothless
14. useless
15. pavement
16. treatment
17. punishment
18. greatness
19. fairness
20. darkness

Challenge Words:assignment , appointment, announcement, homelessness, consciousness

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Unit 29 – Prefixes: dis-, in-, mis-, and re-

1. dislike
2. disappear
3. incomplete
4. independent
5. incorrect
6. misplace
7. misspell
8. misled
9. rebuild
10. reuse

11. distrust
12. dishonest
13. disagree
14. invisible
15. inactive
16. mistreat
17. misbehave
18. react
19. replace
20. recall

Challenge Words:disobedience, incredible, inconvenient, misfortune, recycling

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Unit 30

This is a Review Unit. Your child will bring home an individual list for this unit.

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Unit 31 – Vowels with No Sound Clues

1. machine
2. especially
3. usually
4. probably
5. giant
6. moment
7. animals
8. iron
9. support
10. suppose

11. buffalo
12. Canada
13. canoe
14. relatives
15. stomach
16. cement
17. yesterday
18. favorite
19. welcome
20. August
Challenge Words: dictionary, separate, multiplication, salmon, recognize

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Unit 32 – Vowels in Final Syllable

1. other
2. number
3. color
4. doctor
5. people
6. simple
7. model
8. broken
9. sudden
10. common

11. October
12. another
13. motor
14. angle
15. title
16. barrel
17. angel
18. oven
19. gallon
20. button
Challenge Words: receiver, counselor, article, citizen, cinnamon

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reminder

If you miss 1 or zero words on the pretest, which is taken the first day of the school week, you should study the Enrichment list.

If you miss 2-5 words on your pretest, you should study the regular list (first 20 words) along with the Challenge words (the last 5 words).

If you miss more than 5 on your pretest, you should study the regular list of 20 words.