Weekly Spelling Word Lists
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Theme 1 Week 1
The Hot and Cold Summer
Words with short vowels
master
ahead*
build
front*
meant
bread
ready
busy*
quit
mother*
above
does
advantage
business
sweater
plastic*
balance
limit
among
dozen
Theme 1 Week 2
Sees Behind Trees
Words with long a,e, and i
stayed*
brain
thief
meat*
flight
style
delighted
daily
breathe
meanwhile
believes
tonight
increased
explained
slightly
payment
brief*
tray
byte
raise
Theme 1 Week 3
Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family
Words with long oand long u
soul
smoke
move
clue
fruits
lose
chose
stole
prove
produce
juice
drove
Tuesday*
rescue
continue
issue
ego
argue
cruise
toll
Theme 1 Week 4
Dear Mrs. Parks
Vowels before r
parts
history*
warning
declare
despair
shirt
learning*
backward
border
prepared
harsh*
research
carnival
particular
squirrel
harmful
charms
disorder
favored
remark
Theme 1 Week 5
Elena
Words with /s/, /z/, and /sh/
percent
absence*
years
refused
ancient
pressure
machine
notice
scene
station*
social
special
parachute
specialty
detention
constitution
advertisement
advise
cities
chalet
Theme 2 Week 1
We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente
ending /zher/ & /cher/
treasure
capture
feature
pleasure
measure
creature
picture
adventure
mixture
structure
pasture
culture
literature
furniture
temperature
legislature
immature
leisure
premature
signature
Theme 2 Week 2
Folk Tales from Asia
Words ending in -ed and -ing
charged
spied
moving
trying
practicing*
injured
carrying*
tasted
receiving
becoming
lying
dying
realized
provided
fried
created
tallied
carried*
revising
wearing
Theme 2 Week 3
Iditarod Dream
Unstressed endings in /en/ & /er/
American
frozen*
button
chapter
tractor
golden
taken
harbor
father*
color
ancestor
hidden
hamburger*
theater
weather
beckon
cannon
comparison
elder
turban*
Theme 2 Week 4
Woodsong
Unstressed endings in /en/ & /er/
level
double*
metal
evil
travel*
couple
needle
battle
candle
article
equal
civil
capital
original
individual
material
angel
camel
illegal
stencil*
Theme 2 Week 5
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Plurals
crises
knives
media
roofs
pianos
waves*
wishes
armies
briefs
videos
heroes
data
bacteria
oxen
tomatoes
canoes
berries*
loaves*
lives*
messages
Theme 3 Week 1
Everglades
Words with "silent" letters
island*
design
calm
column
sword*
half
yolk
walked
talk
chalk
wrinkled
wrong
autumn
solemn
aisle
foreign
lightning*
benign
glistened*
resign
Theme 3 Week 2
Summer of Fire
Compound words
basketball
seventy-five
rock band
everybody
fireplace
anything
takeoff*
skateboard
homework
two-thirds*
high school
railroad
motorcycle
vice president
strawberry
freeway
car pool
comic strip
fine arts
forty-two
Theme 3 Week 3
Oceans
Troublesome words and phrases
anyway
any way
all right
every one
everyone
already
all ready
a lot
its*
it's
your
you're
who's
whose
there's
theirs
anyone*
any one
altogether
all together*
Theme 3 Week 4
Seeing Earth From Space
Suffixes: -ant and -ent
absent
servant
present
instant
accident
assistant
current
moment
resident
ignorant
pleasant
distant
innocent
intelligent
restaurant
patient
government
statement
migrant*
participant*
Theme 3 Week 5
The Case of the Flying-Saucer People
Suffixes: -tion and -ness
translation*
laziness
population
invention
generation
examination
situation
operation
sickness
kindness
closeness
forgiveness
pollution
imagination
education
transportation
federation*
subtraction
smallness
lateness
Theme 4 Week 1
Hattie's Birthday Box
Suffixes -able and -less
capable
careless
desirable
admirable
restless
available
debatable
tasteless
helpless
senseless
priceless
useless
reliable*
undeniable*
excitable
believable
bottomless
comfortable
dampness
understandable*
Theme 4 Week 2
William Shakespeare & the Globe
Suffixes: -eer ,-ist ,-ian ,-or , and -er
engineer
dentist
librarian
director
customer
pioneer
counselor
tourist
scientist
visitor*
investigator
senator
astronomer
character
refrigerator
guardian
commander
physician
leader
politician
Theme 4 Week 3
The World of William Joyce Scrapbook
Prefixes: non- ,in- , and un-
nontoxic
income
unknown
unusual
involved
unlike
inspector
unless
indeed
nonprofit
invisible
nonsense
incredible
uncomfortable
inconsistent
unfortunately
nonfiction
nonviolent
uncover*
informal
Theme 4 Week 4
Satchmo's Blues
Prefixes re- and inter-
remove*
interview
repeat
interrupt
respect
interfere
represent
relocate
international*
review
interpret
interstate
remarkable
intermediate
intersection
recommend
interject
intervene
resource
remained
Theme 4 Week 5
Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina
Prefixes: dis- and de-
discuss
deduct
dismissed
develop
disease
discount
disturb
details
demand
determined
depressed*
defense
disappointing*
discouraged*
disadvantage
demonstrated*
defeat
descent
disappear
disconnect
Theme 5 Week 1
Off and Running
Prefixes pre- and pro-
prevent
program
predict
project
pretend
process
prefer
promise*
previous
protect
property
propose
precede
proceed
pronunciation
professional
pretest
preview
proclaim
progress
Theme 5 Week 2
Little by Little
VCCV (vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel) word
pretty*
service
thunder
blanket
effort
fellow
subject
perhaps*
attack*
entire*
chimney
tunnel
effect
suspended
challenge
pretzel
survive
pillow
hunger
college
Theme 5 Week 3
Dear Mr. Henshaw
More words with -ed or -ing
wondering*
fastened*
permitting
controlled
listening*
regretted
suffered
admitted
referred
bothered*
submitted*
whispered
transferred
occurring
canceled
developing
scrubbing
upsetting
wondered
quarreled
Theme 5 Week 4
Frindle
VCCCV (vowel-consonant-consonant-consonant-vowel) words
subtract
distract
contract
complex
distrust
extra
improve
instead*
Congress
English
conflict
exchange
pumpkin
sandwich
Christmas
construction
luncheon
complaint
transform
although
Theme 5 Week 5
The Fun They Had
VCV (vowel-consonant-vowel) words
slogan
radar
minutes
honest
second
virus
shadow
humor
salad
eleven*
closet
model
volcano
private
balance
radio
basis
decent
fanatic
novel
Theme 6 Week 1
Across the Wide Dark Sea
V V (vowel-vowel) words
quiet*
trial
fuel
poem
diet
nucleus
cruel
Indian
fluid
violin
museum
dial
ruin
influence
triumph
violent
theater
liar
leotard
koala
Theme 6 Week 2
Name This American
Contractions
he's
couldn't
she'll
doesn't
we'd
that's
hadn't
shouldn't
how's
weren't
there's
wouldn't
what's
where's
aren't
here's
they'll*
we'll*
you'd*
he'd*
Theme 6 Week 3
What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin?
Related words
describe
description
nature
natural
televise
television
apply
application
compete
competition
divide
division
beauty
beautiful
collide
collision
multiply*
multiplication
bounty*
bountiful*
Theme 6 Week 4
Lewis and Clark
Words with three syllables
industry
buffalo
exciting
terrible
electric
dangerous
exercise
horizon*
favorite
library
substitute
typical
dinosaur
curious
average
period
amazement
bicycle
conference
family
Theme 6 Week 5
Black Frontiers
Words from Spanish
canyon
tornado
breeze
cafeteria
coyote
tomato
barbecue
mosquito
plaza
pueblo
chili
alligator
rodeo
patio
bonanza
avocado
mesa
burro
enchilada
burrito