1st Reporting Period Spelling Words
Week 1.3 (inflected endings -s, -es, -ies)
inches, pitches, dishes, glasses, spies, fries cities, pennies, families, faxes
High Frequency words: story, draw
Challenge words: countries, mysteries, varieties
Week 1.4 (base words/endings)
moving, beginning, carried, easier, begged, noisier, using, angriest, dragging, emptied
High Frequency words: notice, slowly
Challenge Words: interesting, exciting, windiest
Week 1.5 (dipthongs ou, ow, oi, oy)
thousand, shower, power, enjoy, bounce, avoid, appoint, annoy, proud, fountain
High Frequency words: unit, figure
Challenge Words: pronounce, surroundings, turmoil
Week 1.6 (compound words)
popcorn, airport, outside, football, haircut, playground, moonlight, fireworks, rattlesnake, eyesight
High Frequency words: minutes, decided
Challenge Words: courthouse, thumbtack, teammates
2nd Reporting Period Spelling Words
Week 2.1 (vowel diagraphs ee, ea, ai, ay, ow, oa)
owner, peaches, asleep, display, shadow, dream, braided, charcoal, agree, maintain
High Frequency words: voice, south
Challenge Words: tomorrow, freedom, entertain
Week 2.2 (vc/v and v/cv)
total, minus, equal, digit, defend, salad, talent, finish, famous, human
High Frequency words: certain, half
Challenge Words: library, mishap, spiral
Week 2.3 (contractions)
I've, let's, can't, aren't, didn't, won't, couldn't, wouldn't, you've, doesn't
High Frequency words: contain, front
Challenge Words: would've, should've, o'clock
Week 2.4 (vowel teams oo, ew, ue, ui, eu)
newest, suitable, balloon, feud, choose, statue, threw, spooky recruit, rescue
High Frequency words: island, machine
Challenge Words: soothe, renewal, nuisance
Week 2.5 (Vowel patterns ei, eigh)
eighty, eighteen, weigh, weight,weightless, neighbor, ceiling, receive, height, freight
High Frequency words: built, square
Challenge Words:
3rd Reporting Period Spelling Words
Week 3.1 (irregular Plural Nouns)
wolves, knives, children, sheep, heroes, scarves, geese, calves, volcanoes, loaves
High Frequency words: ago, stood
Challenge words: crises, cacti, vertebrae
Week 3.2 (final stable syllables -le, -ture, -ive, -ize)
title, vegetable, humble, active, capture, organize, positive, posture, creature, finalize
High Frequency: love, developed
Challenge: characterize, legislature, chronicle
Week 3.3 (abbreviations)
A.M., ASAP, Blvd., etc, no. P.M., P.S., Rd., vs., wt.
High Frequency: building, ocean
Challenge: dept., hrs., FYI
Week 3.4 (Prefixes -pre, dis-, in-, im-, non-)
prepay, nonstop, disagree, nonfiction, preapprove, indirect, imperfect, impolite, insecure, incorrect
High Frequency: surface, produce
Challenge: impossibility, indefinite, disqualify
Week 3.5 (r-controlled vowels ir, er, ur, ear)
certainty, earn, return, search, swerve, termite, third, thirsty, thirteen, thirty
High Frequency: system, brought
Challenge: determine, virtual, personable
4th Reporting Period Spelling Words
Week 4.1 (homophones)
ate, cell, dear, deer, dual, duel, eight, pause, paws, sell
High Frequency words: material, government
Challenge Words: weather, whether, seize
Week 4.2 (homographs)
transplant, consult, finance, content, minute, digest, upset, research, incline, construct
High Frequency words: equation, among
Challenge Words: entrances, manifest, invalid
Week 4.3 (r-controlled vowels)
morning, format, explore, cardboard, soared, darkness, alarm, adore, target, absorb
High Frequency words: finally, money
Challenge Words: bargain, argument, departure
Week 4.4 (Latin suffixes)
anticipation, civilization, convertible, dependable, flexible, likable, movable, terrible, usable, visible
High Frequency words: language, clear
Challenge Words: traceable, invincible, inspiration
Week 4.5 (Schwa sound)
citizen, decimal, delicious, economy, gallon, global, item, nickel, notify, travel
High Frequency words: ready, anything
Challenge Words: synthesis, precedent, president