Spelling List

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Week 1: Spelling List (long & short /a/)

  1. late
  2. ate
  3. trap
  4. tape
  5. can
  6. cap
  7. cape
  8. man
  9. late
  10. cane

Week 2: Spelling List (long & short /i/)

  1. bit
  2. stick
  3. will
  4. ice
  5. win
  6. pie
  7. spin
  8. kick
  9. sit
  10. nice
  11. factors
  12. divide
  13. setting
  14. event
  15. clouds

Week 3: Spelling List (long & short /o/)

  1. poke
  2. rock
  3. mop
  4. below
  5. lock
  6. broke
  7. show
  8. clock
  9. spoke

There will be 3 cold words

Content Words:

  1. dividend
  2. product
  3. equal

Week 4: Spelling List (long and short /e/)

  1. each
  2. meet
  3. tell
  4. rest
  5. wet
  6. seem
  7. well
  8. best

There will be 4 cold words

Content Words:

  1. lakes
  2. landform
  3. state

Week 5: Spelling List (long and short /u/)

  1. lunch
  2. thump
  3. bug
  4. such
  5. truck

There will be 5 cold words

Content Words

  1. setting
  2. events
  3. problem
  4. details
  5. traits

Week 6: Spelling List (blends)

  1. black
  2. track
  3. stop
  4. crab
  5. flood

There will be 5 cold words

Content Words

  1. story
  2. feelings
  3. cause
  4. effect
  5. action

Week 7: Spelling List (Consonant Digraphs)

  1. chop
  2. ship
  3. three
  4. chin
  5. thin
  6. shell

There will be 4 surprise words

Content words:

  1. recount
  2. topic
  3. Lake Huron
  4. Lake Erie

Week 8: Spelling List (/r/ Syllables)

  1. brother
  2. purple
  3. father
  4. teacher
  5. grandmother
  6. summer
  7. barber

There will be 4 surprise words.

Content Words:

  1. time
  2. clock
  3. hour
  4. half hour

Week 9: Spelling List (Multisyllabic vc/cv)

  1. button
  2. bottle
  3. rabbit
  4. soccer
  5. better
  6. kitten
  7. cotton
  8. tunnel

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1. minute
  2. quarter
  3. plot
  4. line
  5. fives

Week 10: Spelling List (Multisyllabic vc/cv)

  1. music
  2. basic
  3. honor
  4. tiger
  5. olive
  6. behind
  7. alive

There will be 3 surprise words

Content Words:

  1. climate
  2. gram
  3. kilogram
  4. weight
  5. scale

Week 11: Spelling List (words with /ou/)

  1. found
  2. cloud
  3. pound
  4. ground
  5. sound
  6. noun

There will be 4 surprise words

Content words:

  1. village
  2. Hopewell
  3. settle
  4. culture
  5. artifact

Week 12: Spelling List (/ow/ words)

  1. Throw
  2. glow
  3. willow
  4. crow
  5. know

There will be 5 surprise words

Content Words:

  1. literal
  2. nonliteral
  3. context
  4. phrase
  5. passage

Week 13: Spelling List (/oi/ and /oy/ words)

  1. annoy
  2. royal
  3. joint
  4. appoint
  5. coin
  6. spoil
  7. destroy

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1. wigwam
  2. canoe
  3. The Three Fires
  4. Odawa
  5. Ojibway

Week 14: Spelling List (/gr/, /br/ & /cr/)

  1. grapes
  2. grain
  3. gray
  4. crow
  5. cried
  6. cross
  7. brake
  8. brain

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1. sum
  2. digit
  3. total
  4. addend

Week 15: Spelling List (/pr/,/tr/,/fr/ & /dr/)

  1. printing
  2. price
  3. train
  4. track
  5. traps
  6. frying
  7. frame
  8. dream

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1. draft
  2. edit
  3. revise
  4. publish

Week 16: Spelling List (/scr/,/shr/,/spr/ & /thr/)

  1. scroll
  2. scream
  3. shrank
  4. shrimp
  5. spring
  6. sprain
  7. sprint
  8. throw
  9. thread
  10. throat

Week 17: Spelling List (silent /wr/ and /kn/ pattern)

  1. write
  2. wrist
  3. writing
  4. wreck
  5. knife
  6. know
  7. knew

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1. prompt
  2. view
  3. compare
  4. contrast
  5. stanza

Week 18: Spelling List (silent /nk/ , /sk/ , and /mp/ pattern)

  1. pink
  2. ankle
  3. banker
  4. ask
  5. camper
  6. jumped
  7. swamp

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1. pioneer
  2. French
  3. British
  4. history
  5. territory

Week 19: Spelling List (homographs)

  1. aunt
  2. ant
  3. blew
  4. blue
  5. eight
  6. ate
  7. waste
  8. waist
  9. past
  10. passed

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1. information
  2. passage
  3. topic

Week 20: Spelling List (homographs)

  1. there
  2. their
  3. where
  4. wear
  5. bored
  6. board
  7. plane
  8. plain
  9. flour
  10. flower

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1. equation
  2. pattern
  3. reasonable

Week 21: Spelling List (homographs)

  1. stare
  2. mare
  3. bare
  4. spare
  5. aware
  6. hare
  7. mare

There will be 4 surprise words

Content words:

  1. historical
  2. connection
  3. fossil
  4. habitat

Week 22: Spelling List (/ire/ & /ear/)

  1. hire
  2. retire
  3. fire
  4. early
  5. heard
  6. earn
  7. fear
  8. earth
  9. learn

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1. event
  2. facts
  3. explain
  4. chart

Week 23: Spelling List (/ete/ & /ier/)

  1. anywhere
  2. where
  3. interfere
  4. cashier
  5. earlier
  6. copier
  7. crier
  8. drier

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1. square
  2. inch
  3. area
  4. cause
  5. effect

Week 24: Spelling List (/are/ and /ore/)

  1. stairs
  2. airplane
  3. pair
  4. upstairs
  5. explore
  6. anymore
  7. ignore

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1. label
  2. match 
  3. ruler
  4. rectangle
  5. therefore

Week 25: Spelling List (Multisyllabic /le/)

  1. tickle
  2. puddle
  3. able
  4. bubble
  5. riddle
  6. pickle
  7. giggle
  8. middle

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 26: Spelling List (Ending /y/ to /ies/)

  1. pennies
  2. marries
  3. stories
  4. families
  5. copies
  6. candies
  7. ponies

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 27: Spelling List (Irregular Plurals)

  1. knives
  2. leaves
  3. children
  4. teeth
  5. wolves
  6. shelves
  7. loaves

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 28: Spelling List (/spl/ & /sp/)

  1. splash
  2. spider
  3. speak
  4. splatter
  5. splinter
  6. speed
  7. spiral

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 29: Spelling List (Contractions)

  1. isn’t
  2. didn’t
  3. we’ll
  4. she’s
  5. don’t
  6. you’ve
  7. there’s

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 30: Spelling List (Singular Possessives)

  1. family’s
  2. doctor’s
  3. truck’s
  4. turtle’s
  5. author’s
  6. kitten’s
  7. sister’s

There will be 3 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 31: Spelling List (/ight/)

  1. light
  2. might
  3. tight
  4. fight
  5. sight
  6. right
  7. bright
  8. delight

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 32: Spelling List (/oo/ Sound)

  1. shoe
  2. new
  3. blew
  4. crew
  5. grew
  6. two
  7. to
  8. threw

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 33: Spelling List (/ou/ and /oi/ Sound)

  1. annoy
  2. noises
  3. voices
  4. thousand
  5. frown
  6. grouch
  7. drought
  8. voyage

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 34: Spelling List (/sce/ & /nse/)

  1. nonsense
  2. descend
  3. cleanse
  4. dense
  5. crescent
  6. expense
  7. ascend
  8. offense

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 35: Spelling List (/ure/)

  1. sure
  2. figure
  3. injure
  4. unsure
  5. mixture
  6. measure
  7. future
  8. mixture

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Week 36: Spelling List (VCV Pattern)

  1. razor
  2. promise
  3. famous
  4. radar
  5. easel
  6. habit
  7. limit
  8. bison

There will be 2 surprise words

Content words:

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  

Daily Homework to be done in Spelling Notebook:

Monday: Write words in ABC order

Tuesday: Pyramid

Wednesday: Choose 5 words to put in sentences

Thursday: Write each word 5 times each

Friday: Spelling Test