Spelling

Students will receive a new spelling list on Friday’s, allowing plenty of time to study the new list. Each week, students will have 5 patterned words, 5 sight words and 5 content words. Students will be assessed each Friday on the 15 words provided and 5 words that follow the spelling pattern for the week. The goal is to ensure students understand the weekly spelling pattern.

Week of March 9th: Hard and Soft g and c

  • HOT: cent, cave, gym, city, wagon
  • SIGHT: myself, only, never, own, pick
  • CONTENT: sunlight, stem, leaf, roots, photosynthesis

Week of March 2nd: Silent Consonants: wr, kn, gn, mb, bt

  • HOT: knee, gnaw, wrist, doubt, lamb
  • SIGHT: kind, laugh, light, long, much
  • CONTENT: inform, details, patriotic, symbol, value

Week of February 24th: a (Schwa ago, idea)

  • HOT: comma, agree, again, idea, above
  • SIGHT: hold, hot, hurt, if, keep
  • CONTENT: minuend, decompose, difference, subtrahend, algorithm

Week of February 10th: Vowel Pairs oi, oy

  • HOT: oil, hoist, joy, royal, broil
  • SIGHT: fall, far, from, grow, got
  • CONTENT: heart, valentine, love, cupid, winter break

Week of February 3rd: Vowel Pairs ou, ow

  • HOT: clown, growl, round, crown, loud
  • SIGHT: cut, down, draw, drink, eight
  • CONTENT: court, mayor, enforces, interprets, council

Week of January 27th: Vowel Pairs au, aw

  • HOT: pause, draw, launch, bawl, hawk
  • SIGHT: clean, laugh, better, bring, saw
  • CONTENT: changes, earthquake, volcanoes, landslides, wildfire

Week of January 20th: Vowel Pairs oo, ue, ew, oe, ui

  • HOT: root, chew, clue, canoe, fruit
  • SIGHT: carry, kind, together, own, shall
  • CONTENT: weathering, decomposing, erosion, fluency, vertical

Week of January 13th: Vowel Pairs oo, ou

  • HOT: soot, shook, crook, should, could
  • SIGHT: hold, warm, full, done, pick
  • CONTENT: diversity, equality, boycott, prefixes, suffixes

Week of January 6th: Vowel Pairs ir, ur

  • HOT: clerk, churn, third, first, burst
  • SIGHT: keep, drink, only, on, us
  • CONTENT: Pangea, government, shift, multiples, informational

Week of December 16th: R controlled vowels ar, or

  • HOT: part, park, sort, short, horse
  • SIGHT: six, never, seven, today, myself
  • CONTENT: quarter, dime, nickel, earth, changes

Week of December 9th: Blends scr, str, spr

  • HOT: screen, strike, sprain, struck, spruce
  • SIGHT: these, many, if, long, about
  • CONTENT: adjective, adverb, winter, peninsula, plateau

Week of December 2nd: Ending Digraphs th, ch, sh, tch

  • HOT: each, which, match, dish, wish
  • SIGHT: best, because, pull, found, upon
  • CONTENT: transportation, number line, thousand, compare, contrast

Week of November 18th: Consonant Digraphs: sh, th, wh, and ch

  • HOT: chill, sheep, think, while, chase
  • SIGHT: always, gave, those, use, fast
  • CONTENT: glacier, sprong, gulf, ocean, river

Week of November 11th: Vowel Pairs: ea, ee, y (long e)

  • HOT: meat, queen, beet, pony, mean
  • SIGHT: off, cold, work, does, goes  
  • CONTENT: desert, dune, mountain, volcano, landforms