Spelling List

5-28-19

FOCUS: Homophones

bye, by, buy, where, wear, bored, board, blew, blue, some, sum

CONTENT:

battery, insulator, conductor, electricity, circuit

5-20-19

Focus: Homophones

they’re, there, their, to, too, two, our, hour, threw, through

Content:

rectangular prism, pyramid, sphere, edge, face

5-13-19

focus: /oi/ and /ou/ sound:

appoint, android, midpoint, noises, voices, thousand, grouch, drought, ouch, spout

 

content:

rate, per hour, per gallon, per pound, average

 

5-6-19

Focus: /oo/ sound:

ooze, choose, balloon, cocoon, stool

Content:

Question, experiment, hypothesis, solution, conclusion

4-29-19

Focus: contractions

would’ve, they’d, that’ll, you’re, I’ve

content:

reflection, symmetry,

positive numbers,

negative numbers, rotation

 

4-22-19

focus:compound words–2 separate words connected to make one word

 

paperweight, overhead, grandparent, yourself, blindfold

 

content:

negative, positive, repel, magnetism, attract, force

 

4-15-19

 Focus: y to /iest/

silliest, prettiest, neediest, luckiest, happiest, loveliest, crunchiest, spunkiest, dizziest

content:

supply, demand, income, specialization, competition

4-8-19

Focus: y to ier

happier, earlier, greedier, emptier, funnier, amplifier, friendlier, cloudier, bouncier, fancier

Content:

natural resource, capital resource, human resource, consumer, producer

 

3-25-19

 Focus: y to ied

worried, hurried, studied, varied, implied, applied, replied, scurried, notified, accompanied

Content:

evaporation, molecules, states of matter, condensation, freezing, melting

 

3-18-19

 focu: plural y to ies

batteries, properties, berries, worries, families, cities, babies, armies, enemies, directories

content:

base, height, length, width, sides

3-11-19

focus: suffixes

grateful, wasteful, comfortable, wilderness, loveable, uncontrollable

CONTENT:

square units, variable, formula, area, perimeter

3-4-19
Focus: Suffixes

honestly, friendless, government, beginning, sympathy, penniless, clearly, enjoyment, accomplishment, generous

Content:

Bill of Rights, citizens, responsibilities, freedom, elections

2-25-19

 

focus: prefixes

disappear, improper, miscommunication, antisocial, import, export, invisible, distrust, mislead, disagree

Content:

fraction, improper fraction, equivalent, numerator, denominator

 

2-19-19

focus: tion

presentation, adaptation, communication, confrontation, disruption

 

CONTENT: government, Congress, Constitution, Senate, House of Representatives

 

2-11-19

 final /le/

compatible, ankle, sprinkle, knuckle, pebble, humble

content:

spring scale, graduated cylinder, balance, mass, volume

2-4-19

 focus:

final /el/

unravel, snorkel, vessel, flannel, pixel

 

Content:

divisor, dividend, quotient, remainder, division

1-22-19

Focus:

/ile/ /il/

docile, profile, fragile, gerbil, tonsil

content:

solid, liquid, gas, matter, heating, cooling

 

1-14-19

/al/

neutral, fatal, although, almonds, royal

 

content:

executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch, separate, balance

 

1-7-19

focus: irregular plurals

scissors, cacti, oxen, children, fungi, people, geese, sheep, fruit, fish

content:

Earth, distance, cycle, phases, seasons

 

12-17-18

 Focus: /on/ /en/

apron, poison, sunken, shrunken, chosen, tighten, frighten, cannon, carbon, sharpen

 

Content:

exponents, multiply, factors, estimation, product

12-10-18

  Focus: /in/ /ain/

muffin, pumpkin, basin, dolphin, bargain, certain, fountain, again, captain, curtain

CONTENT:

push factor, pull factor, migration, immigration, movement

12-3-18

Focus: Silent Letters

knuckles, honor, wrestle, heir, doubt, gnat, plumber, known, answer, thumb

Content:

axis, revolve, planet, orbit, rotation

 

11-19-18

*TEST for this list will be given on Friday, November, 30th

FOCUS: Review

compass, latitude, longitude, distributive, certain, compatible, population, money, deposit, withdrawal

 

CONTENT:

millimeters, centimeters, grams, measurement

 

11-12-18

 Focus: /or/ /ar/

conductor, harbor, cheddar, odor, avatar, elevator, collar, aviator, grammar, guitar

CONTENT:

tenths, thousandths, hundredths, smallest, largest

11-5-18

Focus: /cher/:

voucher, stretcher, butcher, sketcher, researcher, preacher

CONTENT:

square number, factor pair,

prime number, parentheses, composite number

 

10-29-18

 Focus: /ir/ /er/ /ur/

serpent, sternly, blurred, carpenter, twirl, curler

 

CONTENT:

Upper Peninsula, Dearborn, Michigan, United States, plains

 

10-22-18

Focus: Words with /ure/

lecture, seizure, leisure, moisture, puncture, measure, mixture, sculpture, rupture, assure

Content Area Words:

place value,  tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands

 

10-15-18

Focus: long vowel /e/

redeem, relieve, equal, scene, precede, even, cedar, between, believe, beneath

CONTENT:

environment, habitat, characteristic, survival, adaptation

 

10-8-18

long vowel /i/

slight, fright, climb, twice, wildlife

 

CONTENT

median, mode, data, maximum, minimum

 

10-1-18

 focus: long /a/

ache, estimate, phrase, education, glacier, arcade (hot)

 

Content:

geography, region, direction, transportation, Midwest, landform

 

9-24-18

Focus: Long Vowel /o/

owner, only, notice, whole, vocal, compromise

 

*students will have 4 cold words on Friday that will follow the long /o/ pattern

 

CONTENT: organism, light, energy, air, water

 

9-17-18

Focus: short vowel sound /o/ and /i/

person, adopt, strong, common, blog

interest, district, trim, timber, grin

 

CONTENT: question, experiment, hypothesis, solution, conclusion

9-10-18

Focus: short vowel sound /a/ and /e/

problem, latitude, machine, system, travel, member, snack, happen, candy, theft

 

CONTENT:

points, lines, line segments, rays, quadrangles

 

5-7-18

Focus: y-iest

loveliest, crunchiest, neediest, spunkiest, luckiest, silliest, prettiest, happiest, dizziest

 

CONTENT: supply, demand, income, specialization, competition

 

4-30-18

Focus: y-ier

happier, earlier, greedier, emptier, funnier, prettier, friendlier, cloudier, bouncier, fancier

 

CONTENT: natural resource, capital resource, human resource, consumer, producer

4-23-18

Focus: y-ied

accompanied, implied, scurried, varied, replied, studied, notified, hurried, worried, applied

 

CONTENT:

evaporation, freezing, melting, molecules, states of matter, condensation

 

4-16-18

Focus: y-ies

batteries, properties, berries, worries, families, cities, babies, armies, enemies, directories

 

Content: base, height, length, width, sides

 

4-9-18

Suffixes

grateful, comfortable, loveable, beautiful, kindness, portable, wilderness, respectful, uncontrollable, wasteful

 

CONTENT:

Bill of Rights, citizens, responsibilities, elections, freedom

 

3-26-18

Focus: Suffixes

honestly, friendless, clearly, government, beginning, sympathy, penniless, enjoyment, accomplishment, generous

 

CONTENT:

square units, variable, area, perimeter, formula

 

3-19-18

Focus: Prefixes

prefix, decrease, proceed, nonsense, introduce, nonfiction, impossible, decompose, unusual, mistake

 

CONTENT:

degrees, temperature, thermometer, Fahrenheit, Celsius

 

3-12-18

Focus: Prefixes

disappear, improper, miscommunication, antisocial, import, export, invisible, distrust, mislead, disagree

 

CONTENT:

fraction, improper fraction, equivalent, numerator, denominator

 

3-5-18

/tion/

presentation, disruption, adaptation, communication, confrontation

 

CONTENT:

government, Constitution, Congress, Senate, House of Representatives

 

2-26-18

/le/

compatible, pebble, humble, ankle, uncle, sprinkle

 

CONTENT:

mass, spring scale, graduated cylinder, balance, volume

 

2-5-18

/el/

pixel, flannel, vessel, snorkel, unravel

 

Content:

divisor, quotient, division, dividend, remainder

 

1-29-18

Focus:  /ile/ /il/

docile, fragile, gerbil, council, tonsil

 

Content:

solid, liquid, gas, matter, heating, cooling

 

1-22-18

focus: /al/

neutral, fatal, royal, almonds, although

 

content:

executive branch

legislative branch

judicial branch

separate

balance

 

1-16-18

Focus: Irregular Verbs

scissors, cacti, geese, fish, oxen, children, sheep, fungi, people, fruit

 

Content:

Earth, distance, cycle, phases, seasons

 

12-18-17

Focus /in/ /ain/

muffin pumpkin basin dolphin

bargain certain fountain again captain curtain

 

CONTENT:

push factor

pull factor

migration

immigration

movement

 

12-11-17

Focus: silent letters

knuckles, honor, wrestle, heir, doubt, gnat, plumber, known, answer, thumbs

 

CONTENT: 

axis, planet, rotation, revolve, orbit

 

12-4-17

Review:

longitude, distributive, certain, compatible, withdrawl

 

Content: millimeters, centimeters, grams, measurement

 

11-13-17

Focus: /cher/

researcher, butcher, preacher, stretcher, voucher, sketcher

 

CONTENT: square number, factor pair, prime number, parentheses, composite number

 

11-6-17

Focus: /ur/ /ir/ /er/

serpent, blurred, twirl, sternly, curler, carpenter

 

CONTENT: Upper Peninsula, Dearborn, Michigan, United States, plains

 

10-30-17

Focus: words with /ure/

seizure

leisure

assure

lecture

puncture

 

CONTENT: place value, tens, thousands, hundreds, ten thousands

10-23-17

Focus: long vowel /e/

believe, redeem, cedar, beneath, scene, precede

 

Content: environment, characteristic, adaptation, habitat, survival

 

10-16-17

Focus: Long vowel /i/

slight, sigh, wildlife, climb, twice

 

Content: median, mode, data, maximum, minimum

 

10-9-17

Focus: long /a/

education, estimate, ache, glacier, arcade

 

CONTENT: geography, region, direction, transportation, Midwest, landform

 

10-2-17

Focus: long /o/

owner, compromise, notice, compose, whole

CONTENT:  organism, energy, water, light, air

 

9-25-17

Focus: short i and o vowel sound

Short i: interest, district, trim, timber, grin

Short o: blog, common, strong, adopt, person

 

Content: question, hypothesis, conclusion, experiment, solution

 

9-18-17

Focus: short a and e vowel sound

Short a: snack, candy, latitude

Short e: theft, problem

 

Content: points, lines, line segment, rays, quadrangles

 

9-11-17

Focus: Vowels

bent, rumor, because, staple, oxygen

 

Content: north, south, east, west, location

 

6-5-17

Focus: ‘graph’ (to write) and ‘fract’ (to break)

autograph, graphic, photograph, biography, pictograph

fraction, fracture, fractal, infraction, refraction

 

Content: geometric, cone, cylinder, pyramid, sphere

 

5-22-17

Focus: Greek root “audi” and “anti”

audition, audio, audible, auditorium, audiovisual

anti-bullying, antisocial, antibodies, antibiotic, antidote

 

Content: democratic, observation, evaluate, conclusion, analyze

5-15-17

Focus: Greek root “ann” and “enn”

annual, anniversary, annoy, announce, annotate

centennial, millennium, tennis, kennel, antenna

 

Content: checks, balances, individual, separation, Preamble

 

5-1-17

Focus: abbreviations: A shorthanded form of a word or phrase that takes the place of the full word or phrase, for example: Dr., a.m.

 

Dr.

Jr.

appt.

lbs.

oz.

dept.

Mr.

Ave.

Mrs.

Hwy.

Rep.

St.

 

Content Words:

ratification, rebellion, skeletal, muscular, nervous

 

4-24-17

Focus: Number words

*use the prefix to help you decipher (understand) the word meanings

 

quadrilateral, bilateral, unicycle, polyhedron, kilometer

(students will have 5 cold words this week)

 

Content Words:

extinction, behavioral, instinct, fossils, evidence

 

4-10-17

irregular plurals

hypotheses, cacti, halves, die, loaves, oxen, wolves, shelves, vertices, crises, axes

 

content: volume, quart, liter, survival, adaptation

 

3-27-17

Focus: vowel alteration

television, production, volcanic, completion, definition, humanity, criminal, dividend, metallic, ignition

 

Content Words:

Declaration of Independence, Patriot, Loyalist

 

3-20-16

Focus: consonant altered sound (when suffixes are added to words, the sounds of certain consonants change)

electricity, signal, official, soften, crumble, criticize, muscular, musician, publicity, magician

 

Content words: vertebrates, invertebrates, classification, genetics, species

 

3-13-17

Suffix -ible

visible horrible

gullible

flexible

incredible

terrible

impossible

audible

credible

sensible

 

Content:

authority

inherited

acquired

operation

parenthesis

 

3-6-17

Focus: suffix -able

lovable, valuable, disposable, breakable, laughable

(you will have 5 cold words on Friday’s test)

Content Words: continental, liberty, organism, heredity, trait

 

2-27-17

Focus: suffix -ent

frequent, impatient, absent, compliment, independent, different, intelligent, innocent, convenient

 

Content Words: massacre, treaty, environment, milliliter, perpendicular

2-13-17

Focus: suffix –ant

constant, significant, abundant, defiant, fragrant, instant, brilliant, merchant, important, radiant

Content Words: reference, translation, habit, taxation, revolution

 

2-6-17

Focus: -sion

recession, permission, discussion, expression, supervision

Content Words: solar, comet, median, constellation, benchmark

 

1-30-17

Focus: -tion

nomination, application, communication, introduction, prescription

Content Words: system, landmark, migration, secondary, scale

 

1-23-17

Focus: Silent Letters

• helps to distinguish between homophones
• a silent letter can help us workout the meaning of the word and it might also change the pronunciation.
• magic ‘e’ at the end of a word elongates sound of vowel
• example: rid/ride  hat/hate  cop/cope  tap/tape

wreckage, disguises, foreign, numb, choir

Content Words: asteroid, tide, gravitational. primary, seasons

 

1-17-17

Focus: Double Consonant with -ing

forgetting, wrapping, shopping, begging, snapping

Content Words: minimum, multiples, decimal, eclipse, planet

 

01-09-16

Focus: Double Consonant with -ed

flagged, conferred, omitted, gripped, propelled

Content Words: simplest, lunar, phase, representative, government

 

12-19-16

Focus: Multi-syllabic words- oo

afternoon, lagoon, proofread, football, moodiest

Content Words: economic, assembly, improper, percent, unit

 

12-13-16

Focus: Multi-syllabic Words-il, el

pretzel, pencil, channel, utensil, apparel

Content Words: fraction, numerator, whole, slavery, diversified

 

12-5-16

Focus: Multi-syllabic Words -le, ile

pickle, whistle, fragile, article, turtle

Content Words:

servants, triangular, orbit, fraction, denominator

 

11-28-16

Focus: Multisyllabic words- ou, ow, oi, oy

moisture, empower, invoice, appoint, fountain

content: revolution, rotation, axis, indentured, agriculture

 

11-14-16

Focus: Multisyllabic words V/CV

acre, vanishing, demonstrate, trophy, teachable

Content: colonization, legislature, settlement, divisor, dividend

 

11-7-16

Focus: vc/cv pattern:

obvious, distance, understanding, subject, address, absent, progress, contest, suggest, fantastic

Content: acute, obtuse, angle, straight, vertex

 

\10-31-16

Focus: multisyllabic words:

compartment, separate, partnership, volunteer, preparation, factoring, journey, purpose, tornado, declaration

 

Content Words: contact, non-contact, magnitude, direction, action

 

10-24-16

focus: homophones

there, their, they’re, hour, our, by, buy, bye, witch, which

content- method, expanded, lattice, balanced, unbalanced

 

10-17-16

focus: consonant digraphs: ch-, th-, sh-, ph-, wh-

charity, southern, shatter, whimper, graphic, whether, throughout

content- empire, exploration, friction, inertia, speed

 

10-10-16

focus: short and long vowel /u/

short- mustard, justify

long- excuse, costume, education, recruit

content- composite, product, quotient, remainder, difference

 

10-3-16

focus: short/long /o/

compact, gossip

totally, vocal, rotation

 

content:

environment

interaction

region

mass

weight

 

9-26-16

Focus: short/long vowel /i/

Short: dismiss, visit, shiver

Long: divide, surprise

 

Content words:

physical

energy

matter

force

motion

 

9-19-16

 

Focus: short/long /e/

sentence, expand, succeed, defeat, increase, speaker

 

Content Words:

factor

prime

commutative

rectangular

array

 

 

9-13-16

 

Focus: short/long /a/

backpack, happened, grateful, dainty, candidate

 

Content Words:

cause, effect, chronology, cultural, historian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6-1-16

/ou/ /oi/

spout

appoint

midpoint

noises

voices

thousand

grouch

drought

android

ouch

 

Content:

rate

per hour

per gallon

per pound

average

 

5-23-16

/oo/

ooze

cartoon

choose

balloon

cocoon

 

content words: question, experiment, hypothesis, solution, conclusion

 

5-16-16

compound words:

paperweight

grandparent

waterproof

undertake

blindfold

 

negative, positive, repel, magnetism, attract, force

 

5-10-16

Contractions:

would’ve

they’d

that’ll

she’ll

you’re

 

reflection, symmetry, positive numbers, negative numbers, rotation

 

5-2-16

y to iest

loveliest

crunchiest

spunkiest

luckiest

dizziest

 

Content:

supply, demand, income, specialization, competition

 

4-25-16

y to ier

happier

earlier

greedier

emptier

funnier

prettier

friendlier

cloudier

bouncier

fancier

 

Content:

natural resources

capital resources

human resources

consumer

producer

 

4-18-16

y to ied

accompanied

scurried

implied

applied

varied

 

Content:

evaporation

molecules

states of matter

condensation

freezing

melting

 

4-11-16

y to ies

enemies

properties

worries

batteries

dictionaries

 

Content: width, height, length, base, sides

 

4-4-16

Focus: suffix

grateful

comfortable

beautiful

loveable

uncontrollable

 

Content:

square units

variable

formula

area

perimeter

 

3-21-16

Focus: Suffix

honestly

beginning

sympathy

clearly

accomplishment

generous

 

Content:

Bill of Rights

citizens

responsibilities

freedom

elections

 

3-14-16

Focus: prefix

prefix

nonsense

impossible

decompose

unusual

decrease

Content Words:

degrees

temperature

thermometer

Fahrenheit

Celsius

 

3-7-16

Prefix

disappear

improper

antisocial

invisible

mislead

 

Content:

fraction

improper fraction

equivalent

numerator

denominator

 

2-29-16

/tion/

presentation

petition

dictionary

communication

disruption

 

Content:

government

Congress

House of Representatives

Senate

Constitution

 

2-22-16

final /le/

compatible

freckle

knuckle

sprinkle

humble

 

Content:

spring scale

graduated cylinder

balance

mass

volume

 

2-15-16

final /el/

channel

flannel

panel

pixel

vessel

 

Content:

divisor

dividend

quotient

remainder

division

 

*student will have 5 cold words on Friday

 

2-8-16

/ile/ /il/

hostile

mobile

fragile

docile

profile

gerbil

council

pupil

pencil

tonsil

 

Content Words:

solid

liquid

gas

matter

heating

cooling

 

2-1-16

/al/

neutral

fatal

numeral

total

final

medal

vocal

royal

although

almonds

 

content:

executive branch

legislative branch

judicial branch

separate

balance

 

1-25-16

Focus: Irregular plurals

scissors

cacti

oxen

children

fungi

people

geese

sheep

fruit

fish

Content Words:

Earth

distance

cycle

phases

seasons

 

1-19-16

Focus /on/ /en/

apron

poison

sunken

shrunken

chosen

tighten

frighten

cannon

carbon

sharpen

 

Content:

exponents

multiply

factors

estimation

product

 

1-11-16

Focus: /in/ /ain/

muffin

bargain

certain

pumpkin

fountain

basin

again

captain

dolphin

curtain

 

Content Words:

push factor

pull factor

migration

immigration

movement

 

 

12-14-15

Focus: silent letters

Knuckles

Known

Honor

Heir

Wrestle

Doubt

Gnat

Plumber

Answer

Thumbs

Content Words:

Density

Area

Length

Weight

Volume

12-7-15

Focus: review of content words

latitude

longitude

matter

solid

liquid

gas

population

generation

immigration

migration

 

new content words:

millimeters

centimeters

grams

measurement

 

11-30

Focus: /ar/ /or/

calendar

cheddar

dollar

guitar

elevator

harbor

 

Content Words:

tenths

thousandths

hundredths

smallest

largest

11-16-15

focus /ir/ /er/ ur/

serpent

sternly

swirl

blurred

purpose

curve

carpenter

turnip

twirl

curler

 

content words:

Upper Peninsula

Dearborn

Michigan

United States

plains

 

11-9-15

Focus: /ure/

seizure

leisure

moisture

puncture

sculpture

assure

 

content words:

place value

tens

hundreds

thousands

ten thousands

 

11-2-15

Focus: long /e/

redeem

relieve

cedar

precede

beneath

 

Content:

environment

habitat

characteristic

adaptation

survival

 

10-26-15

Focus: long /i/

climb

slight

fright

wildlife

twice

 

Content:

maximum

minimum

mode

range

median

 

10-19-15

Focus: long /a/

ache

phrase

parade

education

glacier

 

content words:

geography

region

direction

transportation

Midwest

landform

 

10-12-15

focus: long /o/

joke

grow

owner

compose

only

 

content words:

organism

light

energy

air

water

 

10-5-15

Focus: short i and o sound

person

interest

blog

timber

district

Content Words:

question

experiment

hypothesis

solution

conclusion

 

9-21-15

Focus: multi-syllable words/short vowels a and e

problem, latitude, machine, system, member

Content words:

points, lines, line segments, rays, quadrangles

 

9-14-15

Focus: Vowels

oxygen

strap

bent

umbrella

shipment

prime

staple

because

hope

rumor

Content Words:

north

south

east

west

location