Spelling Words

Here you will find our spelling lists for the entire year.
Each list coordinates with the story we are reading in our Harcourt reading series.

Spelling Practice Ideas Spelling Downloads   Spelling Links

 

Theme 1~ Cats, All About Me, Safety

Week 1- at, an, bug, wet, on
Short "a" practice, - at word family, animal
names           Test Date: 

Week 2- hen, cut, we, too, not, jump
Short "a" & "u", - an word family , school words            Test Date: 

Week 3- it, dig, find, one, who
Short "i",- it & -ig word family, shape and feeling words Test Date: 

Theme 2~Surprises, Plants, living & nonliving

Week 1- pot, box, in, once, upon, what
Short "o", -ot & -ox word family, number words            Test Date: 

Week 2-hen, wet, me, you, do, said
Short "e", -et & -en word family, opposites, food, and rhyming words                                                      Test Date: 

Week 3- are, he, they, away, does, live, pull, where
Short "u", review -et & -en word family, -ug word family, days of the week, homographs                 Test Date: 

Theme 3~ Seasons, Environment, Habitats, Sun & Moon

Week 1- an, at, can, cat, had, man
Challenge Words- catch, odd
Short "a", -ack & -ap word family, seasons, months, plurals, double consonants                                 
Test Date: 

Week 2- in, it, him, big, sit, did
Challenge Words- dish milk
Short "i", -ip & -in word family, possessives, size words, verb endings (-s, -ed, -ing) 
                               Test Date: 

Week 3- trip, crab, drip, grin, grab, trap
Challenge Words- crack, brown
Clusters with "r", -ick & -ill word family, color words, positional words. 
                                                Test Date: 

Theme 4~ Family, Homes

Week 1- on, not, got, box, hot, top
Challenge Words- pond, doll
Short "o" words, clusters with "l" (cl,sl,etc.), ghost letters, triple clusters, -ock & -op word family, family & exclamatory words. 
           Test Date: 

Week 2- get, ten, red, pet, men, yes
Challenge Words- tent, bell
Short "e" words, CVC patterns, -ell & -est word family, sensory words, words and symbols on signs. 
     Test Date: 

Week 3- up, us, but, fun, cut, run
Challenge Words- jump, plum
Short "u" words, -um & -ump word family, question and noise words, clusters with s, ghost letters, triple clusters.
    Test Date: 

Theme 5~ Maps, Homes, Weather

Week 1 - she, chin, fish, shell, much, chop
Challenge Words- shoe, chair
"sh" or "ch" words, syllables, sh, th, wh, ch, tch, antonyms and size words, compare & contrast. 
       Test Date: 

Week 2 - make, came, take, name, gave, game
Challenge Words- place, skate
Identify a-e patterns, -ake & -ate word family, social studies, state, country names and words, soft g & c, final nd, ng, nk, compare & contrast.
       Test Date: 

Week 3- like, five, ride, nine, time, kit
Challenge Words- Prize, smile
Identify i-e patterns, -ite &-ike word family, weather words, -ing endings, contractions, cause & effect. 
    Test Date: 

Theme 6 ~ Food, Animal Adventures, Frogs, Night Animals

Week 1- go, bone, so, nose, home, no
Challenge Words- also, woke
Long "o" words, -oke spelling pattern, CVCe patterns, alphabetical order, fruit and vegetable names, contractions. 
  Test Date: 

Week 2- me, see, mean, feet, eat, he
Challenge Words- maybe, sheep
Long "e" words, -eat spelling pattern, ee, ea, and eat spelling patterns, rhyming words, expressions of surprise. 
  Test Date: 

Week 3- day, say, play, may, way, stay
Challenge Words- away, holiday
Long "a" spelled ay, -ay spelling pattern, ai &ay words, parts of the body, animal action words. 
   Test Date: 

Theme 7~ Sink or Float, Moon, Food Groups

Week 1- boat, slow, coat, grow, show, toad
Challenge Words- coast, know
Long "o" spelled ow, oa, -ow spelling pattern, categorizing, friendship words, problem solving. 
Test Date: 

Week 2- look, book, took, good, foot, cook
Challenge Words- hoof, crook
Words with oo sound, compound words, multiple-meaning words, city words, sequencing. Test Date: 

Week 3- zoo, food, too, moon, soon, roam
Challenge Words- moose, balloon
Words with oo sound, (oo, ew, ue, ou, u, u-e) trigraph "igh", syllabication, house words, fantasy and realism. 
 Test Date: 

Theme 8~ Birds, Turtles, Earth, the World, Oceans, Caterpillar and Butterflies

Week 1- cup, cups, frog, frogs, tree, trees
Challenge Words- gloves, birds
Word Endings -s, -ed, -ing. Compound and nature words.  Categorize and Classify Summarize. 
 Test Date: 

Week 2- cow, house, out, down, now, found
Challenge Words- pouch, crowded
Identify letters that spell the "ou" sound. Words that rhyme with out and down. Topic, Main Idea, Details. 
Test Date: 

Week 3- landed, checking, telling, missed, filled, sleeping.
Challenge Words- bluffing, planted
Suffixes -ed & -ing, homophones, words that name apple products, drawing conclusions, predict/infer.
Test Date: 

Theme 9 ~ Special Friends

Week 1- by, my, fly, try, cry, why
Challenge Words- pry, multiply
"i" spelled y. Sounds for vowel y (e,i).
Sensory words, family activity words, noting details, monitor/clarify.                                    
Test Date: 

Week 2- dishes, dresses, boxes, beaches, wishes, kisses.
Challenge Words- classes, brushes
-es ending. Synonyms, feeling words, fantasy and realism, evaluate.  Test Date: 

Week 3- coin, soil, boy, oil, toy, point
Challenge Words- moist, destroy
Words with aw, oy.  Possessive pronouns, bird words, compare & contrast, question, prefixes un-, re-. 
  Test Date: 

Theme 10 ~ Insects, Bears, Fantasy, Winter

Week 1- store, corn, for more, or, morning
Challenge Words- afford, before
"r" controlled vowels. Math & ordinal number words. Making predictions. Test Date: 

Week 2- car, start, arm, far, yard, dark
Challenge Words- large, jar
-ar words and spelling pattern.  Prefixes dis-, re-, figurative language, sequencing. 
         Test Date: 

Week 3- newer, warmest, highest, faster, deepest, richer
Challenge Words- smaller, kindest
Suffixes -er & -est. Suffix -ly, clothing words, cause & effect.
Test Date: 

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