Spelling and Vocabulary

  • Click on the name of each theme, you will be taken to Harcourt's Homework Helper, which has activities that can be done at home. 
  • Click on the name of each story, you will open up a Word Document with that story's vocabulary and spelling words. 
  • Click on the different list numbers you will open up a link to SpellingCity.com that has games and tutorials using the spelling words that go with the story. 

Theme 1: Personal Best

The Best School Year Ever - List 1

Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs - List 2

Knots in My Yo-yo String - List 3

The Marble Champ - List 4

Darnell Rock Reporting - List 5

 Theme 2: Friends to the Rescue

Number the Stars - List 6

The Summer of the Swans - List 7

Old Yeller - List 8

Trapped by the Ice! - List 9

Flood - List 10

 Theme 3: Unlocking the Past

The Stone Age News - List 11

Ancient China - List 12

Pyramids - List 13

Look Into the Past - List 14

The Skill of Pericles - List 15

 Theme 4: Creative Solutions

My Side of the Mountain - List 16

Fall Secrets - List 17

Girls Think of Everything - List 18

A Do-It-Yourself Project - List 19

Catching the Fire - List 20

 Theme 5: Making a Difference 

Seventh Grade - List 21

My Name Is San Ho - List 22

Out of Darkness - List 23

Anne of Green Gables - List 24

Cowboys - List 25

Theme 6: Expanding Worlds

Atlas in the Round - List 26

Dive!  - List 27

I Want to Be an Astronaut - List 28

CyberSurfer - List 29

Shining Blue Planet - List 30