spelling

Click on the following lessons or scroll through the page to view the spelling words for the week. The spelling word lessons correspond with the weekly reading story. Different teachers may be on different lessons/stories so be sure to check with your child's teacher to insure that they are studying the correct lesson/words.

Be sure to also check out the "Spelling City" link for extra help with spelling, practice tests, and games using the weekly spelling words!

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Lesson #1 -  Words with Short Vowels - "The Hot and Cold Summer"

Spelling City!

  1. master
  2. ahead
  3. build
  4. front
  5. meant
  6. bread
  7. ready
  8. busy
  9. quit
  10. mother
  11. above
  12. does
  13. advantage
  14. business
  15. sweater
  16. plastic
  17. balance
  18. limit
  19. among
  20. dozen

*Challenge Words

  1. activity
  2. building
  3. heavy
  4. biscuit
  5. purpose

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #2 - Words with long "a", "e", and "i" - "Sees Behind Trees"

Spelling City!

  1. stayed
  2. brain
  3. thief
  4. meat
  5. flight
  6. style
  7. delighted
  8. daily
  9. breathe
  10. meanwhile
  11. believes
  12. tonight
  13. increased
  14. explained
  15. slightly
  16. payment
  17. brief
  18. tray
  19. byte
  20. raise

*Challenge Words

  1. tight
  2. type
  3. remain
  4. chief
  5. pleaded

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #3 - Words with long "o" and "u" - "Yang the Third..."

Spelling City!

  1. soul
  2. smoke
  3. move
  4. clue
  5. fruits
  6. lose
  7. chose
  8. stole
  9. prove
  10. produce
  11. juice
  12. drove
  13. Tuesday
  14. rescue
  15. continue
  16. issue
  17. ego
  18. argue
  19. cruise
  20. toll

*Challenge Words

  1. forehead
  2. include
  3. rehearsal
  4. fourth
  5. course

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #4 - Vowels before "r" - "Dear Mrs. Parks"

Spelling City!

  1. parts
  2. history
  3. warning
  4. declare
  5. despair
  6. shirt
  7. learning
  8. backward
  9. border
  10. prepared
  11. harsh
  12. research
  13. carnival
  14. particular
  15. squirrel
  16. harmful
  17. charms
  18. disorder
  19. favored
  20. remark

*Challenge Words

  1. correspondence
  2. discouraged
  3. generations
  4. constitution
  5. literature

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #5 - Words with /s/, /z/, and /sh/ - "Elena"

Spelling City!

  1. percent
  2. absence
  3. years
  4. refused
  5. ancient
  6. pressure
  7. machine
  8. notice
  9. scene
  10. station
  11. social
  12. special
  13. parachute
  14. specialty
  15. detention
  16. constitution
  17. advertisement
  18. advise
  19. cities
  20. chalet

*Challenge Words

  1. sincere
  2. tissue
  3. resident
  4. magician
  5. medicine

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #6 - Endings /zher/ and /cher/ - "...Roberto Clemente"

Spelling City!

  1. treasure
  2. capture
  3. feature
  4. pleasure
  5. measure
  6. creature
  7. picture
  8. adventure
  9. mixture
  10. structure
  11. pasture
  12. culture
  13. literature
  14. furniture
  15. temperature
  16. legislature
  17. immature
  18. leisure
  19. premature
  20. signature

*Challenge Words

  1. recruited
  2. persistent
  3. league
  4. devastation
  5. inspiration 

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #7 - Words ending in -ed and -ing - "Folktales from Asia"

Spelling City!

  1. charged
  2. spied
  3. moving
  4. trying
  5. practicing
  6. injured
  7. carrying
  8. tasted
  9. receiving
  10. becoming
  11. lying
  12. dying
  13. realized
  14. provided
  15. fried
  16. created
  17. tallied
  18. carried
  19. revising
  20. wearing

*Challenge Words

  1. approval
  2. glimpse
  3. braggart
  4. sufficient
  5. qualities

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #8 - Unstressed endings /en/ and /er/ - "Iditarod Dream"

Spelling City!

  1. American
  2. frozen
  3. button
  4. chapter
  5. tractor
  6. golden
  7. taken
  8. harbor
  9. father
  10. color
  11. ancestor
  12. hidden
  13. hamburger
  14. theater
  15. weather
  16. beckon
  17. cannon
  18. comparison
  19. elder
  20. turban

*Challenge Words

  1. desperate
  2. frostbitten
  3. laden
  4. emergency
  5. straighten

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #9 - Unstressed ending /el/ - "Woodsong"

Spelling City!

  1. level
  2. double
  3. metal
  4. evil
  5. travel
  6. couple
  7. needle
  8. battle
  9. candle
  10. article
  11. equal
  12. civil
  13. capital
  14. original
  15. individual
  16. material
  17. angel
  18. camel
  19. illegal
  20. stencil

*Challenge Words

  1. brindle
  2. possible
  3. personality
  4. wilderness
  5. humorous

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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  Lesson #10 - Plurals - "Island of the Blue Dolphins"

Spelling City!

  1. crises
  2. knives
  3. media
  4. roofs
  5. pianos
  6. waves
  7. wishes
  8. armies
  9. briefs
  10. videos
  11. heroes
  12. data
  13. bacteria
  14. oxen
  15. tomatoes
  16. canoes
  17. berries
  18. loaves
  19. lives
  20. messages

*Challenge Words

  1. foxes
  2. breaths
  3. tragedies
  4. buses
  5. skis

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #11 - Words with "silent" letters - "Everglades"

Spelling City!

  1. island
  2. design
  3. calm
  4. column
  5. sword
  6. half
  7. yolk
  8. walked
  9. talk
  10. chalk
  11. wrinkled
  12. wrong
  13. autumn
  14. solemn
  15. aisle
  16. foreign
  17. lightning
  18. benign
  19. glistened
  20. resign

*Challenge Words

  1. orchids
  2. slaughter
  3. clambered
  4. knowledge
  5. habitat

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #12 - Compound words - "Summer of Fire"

 Spelling City!

  1. basketball
  2. seventy-five
  3. rock band
  4. everybody
  5. fireplace
  6. anything
  7. take-off
  8. skateboard
  9. homework
  10. two-thirds
  11. high school
  12. railroad
  13. motorcycle
  14. vice president
  15. strawberry
  16. freeway
  17. car pool
  18. comic strip
  19. fine arts
  20. forty-two

*Challenge Words

  1. breathtaking
  2. thunderstruck
  3. runner-up
  4. half hour
  5. paper clip

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #13 - Troublesome Words & Phrases - "Oceans"

Spelling City!

  1. anyway
  2. any way
  3. all right
  4. every one
  5. everyone
  6. already
  7. all ready
  8. a lot
  9. its
  10. it's
  11. your
  12. you're
  13. who's
  14. whose
  15. there's
  16. theirs
  17. anyone
  18. any one
  19. altogether
  20. all together

*Challenge Words

  1. continents
  2. wavelength
  3. particles
  4. dangerous
  5. eventually

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #14 - Words with -ant & -ent - "Seeing Earth from Space"

Spelling City!

  1. absent
  2. servant
  3. present
  4. instant
  5. accident
  6. assistant
  7. current
  8. moment
  9. resident
  10. ignorant
  11. pleasant
  12. distant
  13. innocent
  14. intelligent
  15. restaurant
  16. patient
  17. government
  18. statement
  19. migrant
  20. participant

*Challenge Words

  1. efficacious
  2. orbiting
  3. continent
  4. magma
  5. landforms

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #15 - Suffixes -tion & -ness - "Case of the Flying Saucer People"

Spelling City!

  1. translation
  2. laziness
  3. population
  4. invention
  5. generation
  6. examination
  7. situation
  8. operation
  9. sickness
  10. kindness
  11. closeness
  12. forgiveness
  13. pollution
  14. imagination
  15. education
  16. transportation
  17. federation
  18. subtraction
  19. smallness
  20. lateness

*Challenge Words

  1. science-fiction
  2. questions
  3. air-conditioning
  4. scientific
  5. atmosphere

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #16 - Suffixes -able & -less - "Hattie's Birthday Box"

Spelling City!

  1. capable
  2. careless
  3. desirable
  4. admirable
  5. restless
  6. available
  7. debatable
  8. tasteless
  9. helpless
  10. senseless
  11. priceless
  12. useless
  13. reliable
  14. undeniable
  15. excitable
  16. believable
  17. bottomless
  18. comfortable
  19. dampness
  20. understandable

*Challenge Words

  1. decorations
  2. reciting
  3. memorized
  4. tongue
  5. precious

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #17 - Suffixes -eer, -ist, -ian, -or, and -er - "William Shakespeare and the Globe"

Spelling City!

  1. engineer
  2. dentist
  3. librarian
  4. director
  5. customer
  6. pioneer
  7. counselor
  8. tourist
  9. scientist
  10. visitor
  11. investigator
  12. senator
  13. astronomer
  14. character
  15. refrigerator
  16. guardian
  17. commander
  18. physician
  19. politician
  20. leader

*Challenge Words

  1. historian
  2. performer
  3. volunteer
  4. disaster
  5. spectator

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #18 - Prefixes non-, in-, and un-  "World of William Joyce..." 

Spelling City!

  1. nontoxic
  2. income
  3. unknown
  4. unusual
  5. involved
  6. unlike
  7. inspector
  8. unless
  9. indeed
  10. nonprofit
  11. invisible
  12. nonsense
  13. incredible
  14. uncomfortable
  15. inconsistent
  16. unfortunately
  17. nonfiction
  18. nonviolent
  19. uncover
  20. informal

*Challenge Words

  1. inexperienced
  2. unproductive
  3. nonverbal
  4. unsightly
  5. inspiration

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #19 - Prefixes re- and inter-  "Satchmo's Blues"

Spelling City!

  1.  remove
  2. interview
  3. repeat
  4. interrupt
  5. respect
  6. interfere
  7. represent
  8. relocate
  9. international
  10. review
  11. interpret
  12. interstate
  13. remarkable
  14. intermediate
  15. intersection
  16. recommend
  17. interject
  18. intervene
  19. resource
  20. remained

*Challenge Words

  1. interdependent
  2. interconnect
  3. recognize
  4. reassure
  5. recede

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #20 - Prefixes dis & de-  "Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina"

Spelling City!

  1. discuss
  2. deduct
  3. dismissed
  4. develop
  5. disease
  6. discount
  7. disturb
  8. details
  9. demand
  10. determined
  11. depressed
  12. defense
  13. disappointing
  14. discouraged
  15. disadvantage
  16. demonstrated
  17. defeat
  18. descent
  19. disappear
  20. disconnect

*Challenge Words

  1. distract
  2. decision
  3. deliver
  4. distressed
  5. distribute

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #21 - Prefixes pre- & pro-  "Off and Running"

Spelling City!

  1. prevent
  2. program
  3. predict
  4. project
  5. pretend
  6. process
  7. prefer
  8. promise
  9. previous
  10. protect
  11. property
  12. propose
  13. precede
  14. proceed
  15. pronunciation
  16. professional
  17. pretest
  18. preview
  19. proclaim
  20. progress

*Challenge Words

  1. ceramic
  2. opponent
  3. aquarium
  4. resources
  5. acquaintance

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #22 - VCCV Words - " Little by Little"

Spelling City!

  1. pretty
  2. service
  3. thunder
  4. blanket
  5. effort
  6. fellow
  7. subject
  8. perhaps
  9. attack
  10. entire
  11. chimney
  12. tunnel
  13. effect
  14. suspended
  15. challenge
  16. pretzel
  17. survive
  18. pillow
  19. hunger
  20. college

*Challenge Words

  1. determined
  2. autobiography
  3. disease
  4. eternal
  5. composition

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #23 - Words Ending with -ed & -ing - "Dear Mr. Henshaw"

Spelling City!

  1. wondering
  2. fastened
  3. permitting
  4. controlled
  5. listening
  6. regretted
  7. suffered
  8. admitted
  9. referred
  10. bothered
  11. submitted
  12. whispered
  13. transferred
  14. occurring
  15. canceled
  16. developing
  17. scrubbing
  18. upsetting
  19. wondered
  20. quarreled

*Challenge Words

  1. triggered
  2. pretended
  3. commenting
  4. delaying
  5. squatted

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #24 - VCCCV Words - "Frindle"

Spelling City!

  1. subtract
  2. distract
  3. contract
  4. complex
  5. distrust
  6. extra
  7. improve
  8. instead
  9. Congress
  10. English
  11. conflict
  12. exchange
  13. pumpkin
  14. sandwich
  15. Christmas
  16. construction
  17. luncheon
  18. complaint
  19. transform
  20. although

*Challenge Words

  1. cassette
  2. devised
  3. persuaded
  4. deceive
  5. dictionary

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #25 - VCV Words - "The Fun They Had"

Spelling City!

  1. slogan
  2. radar
  3. minutes
  4. honest
  5. second
  6. virus
  7. shadow
  8. humor
  9. salad
  10. eleven
  11. closet
  12. model
  13. volcano
  14. private
  15. balance
  16. radio
  17. basis
  18. decent
  19. fanatic
  20. novel

*Challenge Words

  1. diary
  2. textbooks
  3. calculated
  4. superior
  5. centuries

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #26 - VV Words - "Across the Wide Dark Sea"

Spelling City!

  1. quiet
  2. trial
  3. fuel
  4. poem
  5. diet
  6. nucleus
  7. cruel
  8. Indian
  9. fluid
  10. violin
  11. museum
  12. dial
  13. ruin
  14. influence
  15. triumph
  16. violent
  17. theater
  18. liar
  19. leotard
  20. koala

*Challenge Words

  1. journey
  2. obstacle
  3. accomplishment
  4. desperate
  5. calm

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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 Lesson #27 - Contractions - "Name This American"

Spelling City!

  1. he's
  2. couldn't
  3. she'll
  4. doesn't
  5. we'd
  6. that's
  7. hadn't
  8. shouldn't
  9. how's
  10. weren't
  11. there's
  12. wouldn't
  13. what's
  14. where's
  15. aren't
  16. here's
  17. they'll
  18. we'll
  19. you'd
  20. he'd

*Challenge Words

  1. celebrities
  2. congratulations
  3. continue
  4. astronomer
  5. guarantee

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 Lesson #28 - Related Words - "What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?"

Spelling City!

  1. describe
  2. description
  3. nature
  4. natural
  5. televise
  6. television
  7. apply
  8. application
  9. compete
  10. competition
  11. divide
  12. division
  13. beauty
  14. beautiful
  15. collide
  16. collision
  17. multiply
  18. multiplication
  19. bounty
  20. bountiful

*Challenge Words

  1. exception
  2. explanation
  3. ambassador
  4. delegate
  5. convention

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #29 - Words with Three Syllables - "Lewis and Clark"

Spelling City!

  1. industry
  2. buffalo
  3. exciting
  4. terrible
  5. electric
  6. dangerous
  7. exercise
  8. horizon
  9. favorite
  10. library
  11. substitute
  12. typical
  13. dinosaur
  14. curious
  15. average
  16. period
  17. amazement
  18. bicycle
  19. conference
  20. family

*Challenge Words

  1. numerous
  2. exhaustion
  3. customary
  4. persistent
  5. reunion

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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Lesson #30 - Words from Spanish - "Black Frontiers"

Spelling City!

  1. canyon
  2. tornado
  3. breeze
  4. cafeteria
  5. coyote
  6. tomato
  7. barbecue
  8. mosquito
  9. plaza
  10. pueblo
  11. chili
  12. alligator
  13. rodeo
  14. patio
  15. bonanza
  16. avocado
  17. mesa
  18. burro
  19. enchilada
  20. burrito

*Challenge Words

  1. yucca
  2. hurricane
  3. chaps
  4. arroyo
  5. matador

*Challenge words are not used by all teachers. Check with your child's teacher to see if they use these words in their classroom.

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