Spelling Lists

List 1 – Long and short a and e sounds
Core Words
gain
cream
sweet
safe
past
reach
kept
gray
field
break
east
shape
steep
pray
pain
glass
west
cheap
steak
chief

Challenge Words:
graceful
descent
athletic
knead
activity

List 2 – Contractions
Core Words
cannot
can’t
don’t
haven’t
won’t
wouldn’t
I’d
I’ll
let’s
we’re
I’m
didn’t
o’clock
that’s
there’s


Challenge Words:
minute
stretch
instead
ninety
divide

List 3 – Long and short i and o sounds
Core Words
snow
grind
still
coast
odd
crime
gold
wrote
flight
build
broke
blind
folk
grown
shock
ripe
coal
inch
sigh
built

Challenge Words:
remind
approach
rigid
recognize
continent

List 4 – Long and short u sounds
Core Words
brush
juice
fruit
tube
lunch
crumb
few
true
truth
done
suit
pump
due
dull
tune
blew
trunk
sum
glue
threw

Challenge Words:
newscast
commute
continue
attitude
slumber

List 5 – Homophones
Core Words
steel
weight
beet
peak
steal
wear
beat
deer
lead
ware
meet
dear
led
creak
meat
ring
wait
creek
peek
wring

pour
pore
vain
vein
vane


List 6 – Review 1
Core Words
safe
wrote
wait
still
kept
blind
creak
gold
gray
suit
steep
crime
grown
crumb
gain





Challenge Words:
descent
graceful
rigid
newscast
knead

List 7 – Review 2
Core Words
few
meat
odd
steel
trunk
past
sigh
creek
steal
reach
true
meet
weight
coast
tube


Challenge Words:
remind
continue
pour
slumber
pore



List 8 – Short and Long Vowels
Core Words
shake
roast
speed
flock
desk
prune
drain
cone
block
spray
fist
crew
fright
plant
pride
blade
neat
bread
truck
dead

Challenge Words
proceed
cocoa
imitate
erase
polish

List 9 – Challenge Words Review

graceful
descent
athletic
knead
activity
minute
stretch
instead
ninety
divide
remind
approach
rigid
recognize
content
newscast
commute
continue
attitude
slumber
there
their
they're
your
you're



List 10 – (ou and ô sounds)
Core Words
pound
always
drawn
sauce
howl
shout
scout
gown
jaw
aloud
false
couch
bounce
south
proud
dawn
cause
couple
frown
mount

Challenge Words             
gnaw
prowl
pounce
doubt
scrawny


List 11 – (long and short oo sounds)
Core Words
wood
push
stood
bush
brook
full
stool
fool
tool
roof
hook
pull
put
group
smooth
soup
wool
prove
shoot
move

Challenge Words             
soot
marooned
pudding
cocoon
superb


List 12 – ( /îr/, /är/ and /âr/ sounds)
Core Words
gear
cheer
starve
stairs
spear
square
charm
year
sharp
hairy
beard
charge
stare
heart
hardly
dairy
alarm
weird
spare
scarce

Challenge Words             
pioneer
awareness
startle
marvel
weary

Advanced / Tier 3
career
millionaire
scarred
yearn
declare
arctic
library
herd
appear
article
inspiration
dwarf
barnacle
department
intersection
swarm
barely
scaring
expert
earn



List 13 – / ôr / , / ûr / and / yoor /  sounds
Core Words
horse
chore
firm
learn
dirty
curve
world
pure
board
course
heard
return
cure
score
worm
thirteen
worn
curl
shirt
search

Challenge Words             
thoroughbred
fortunate
hurdle
foreign
earnest

Advanced / Tier 3
squirm
unicorn
worship
whirl
enormous
storm
torch
bored
sure
lure
chore
nature
curve
hooray
information
transportation
important
discourage
gorgeous
encourage





List 14 – List 10-13 Review
Core Words
howl
false
sauce
put
roof
hardly
dairy
charge
dirty
world
bounce
couch
wood
push
pull
year
alarm
horse
curl
return
jaw
dawn
tool
full
gear
spare
cheer
chore
heard
search

Challenge Words
pounce
scrawny
pudding
marooned
cocoon
pioneer
awareness
marvel
fortunate
earnest






List 15 – Compound Words
Core Words
railroad
airport
seat belt
everywhere
homesick
understand
background
anything
ninety-nine
already
fireplace
ourselves
all right
forever
breakfast
whenever
everything
meanwhile
afternoon
make-believe

Challenge Words             
landmark
nationwide
postscript
motorcycle
handkerchief

Advanced / Tier 3
courtyard
science fiction
light-year
knapsack
flash bulb
field trip
poison ivy
loose-leaf
toothache
somehow
whoever
downcast
downfall
downtown
supermarket
submarine
however
whomever
birdbath
whirlwind



List 16 – /ər/, final /l/ or /əl
Core Words
harbor
final
middle
weather
labor
model
chapter
special
sugar
bottle
medal
collar
proper
towel
beggar
battle
trouble
shower
uncle
doctor

Challenge Words
shoulder
decimal
trifle
solar
cancel


Advanced
popular
anchor
burglar
mineral
quarrel
bicycle
crystal
stellar
lunar
calendar
boulder
barrier
financial
industrial
pretzel
recital
tremble
example
material
travel



List 17 – words with -ed or -ing
Core Words
dancing
raced
dimmed
stripped
skipped
landed
rubbing
tanning
hiking
pleasing
striped
smelling
flipped
checking
wasting
phoning
snapping
dared
traced
fainted

Challenge Words
breathing
tiring
urged
scrubbed
striving

Advanced / Tier 3
whirred
scarred
peeled
bluffing
quizzed
whipped
carving
cruising
picked
drummed
watered
cheered
talked
stared
traded
baked
wasted
scared
waved
shaking



List 18 – the /k/, /ng/, and /kw/ sounds
Core Words
shark
question
crooked
struck
attack
electric
drink
mistake
risk
jacket
topic
junk
public
blank
track
squirrel
sink
ache
blanket
stomach

Challenge Words
aquatic
comic
tropical
speckled
peculiar

Advanced / Tier 3
reckless
skeleton
attic
request
rescue
turkey
cactus
picnic
hoping
raking
vacant
quarrel
chuckle
focal
rascal
scandal
vocal
anchor
sequel
freckle




List 19 – the final ē sound
Core Words
beauty
ugly
lazy
marry
ready
sorry
empty
honey
valley
movie
duty
hungry
lonely
alley
body
twenty
turkey
hockey
fifty
monkey

Challenge Words
fiery
envy
mercy
chimney
imaginary

Advanced / Tier 3
mystery
celery
machinery
injury
grouchy
greasy
gloomy
sweaty
smoothly
frequently
eagerly
finally
loyally
angrily
cruelty
agility
buoyancy
closely
unsteadily
comedy




List 20 – final /j/ and /s/
Core Words
village
chance
glance
marriage
cottage
twice
ridge
edge
bridge
cage
manage
lodge
fence
change
damage
cabbage
strange
carriage
since
dodge

Challenge Words
fleece
fragrance
homage
fringe
excellence


Advanced / Tier 3
average
pledge
courage
arrange
difference
wedge
bulge
promise
tennis
compass
confess
office
famous
nervous
service
surface
perhaps
purchase
purpose
misjudge



List 21 – VCCV patterns
Core Words
bottom
common
arrow
dinner
picture
danger
suppose
thirty
other
afraid
escape
degree
attend
borrow
whether
allow
capture
office
pillow
corner

Challenge Words
method
concert
narrate
abrupt
challenge

Advanced
biscuit
discuss
medley
journey
vessel
submerge
eddy
venture
occur
clumsy
problem
suggest
fortune
filter
candid
disturb
agree
scarlet
object
arrive



List 22 – words with a prefix or suffix
Core Words
redo
dislike
reread
distrust
treatment
sickness
unsure
kindness
rebuild
beautiful
movement
useless
discolor
[discolour]
unlucky
peaceful
displease
careless
awful
unpaid
powerful

Challenge Words
unusual
rearrange
appointment
discontinue
resourceful

Advanced
recycle
uninterested
disconnect 
merciless
encouragement
cleanliness
unfamiliar
disagree
refund
dishonest
amusement
worthless
dreadful
misspell
premature
preview
renew
research
noisiest
lawless


List 23 – changing final to i
Core Words
sunnier
cloudier
windier
cities
heaviest
prettiest
studied
easier
noisier
families
ferries
crazier
funnier
earlier
copied
hobbies
angriest
emptied
worried
happiest

Challenge Words
iciest
hazier
breezier
companies
qualities


List 24 – Commonly Misspelled Words
Core Words
brought
enough
buy
guess
Saturday
January
February
favorite [favourite]
lying
tying
around
swimming
heard
also
tried


Challenge Words
choose
chose
loose
lose
millimeter [millimetre]



List 25 – VCV pattern

Core Words
pilot
depend
visit
human
seven
chosen
paper
reason
become
parent
never
modern
tiny
tuna
event
fever
moment
prison
basic
open

Challenge Words
alert
license [licence*]
select
radar
feature
*outside the USA, license is a verb, and licence is a noun

Core Words
pilot
depend
visit
human
seven
chosen
paper
reason
become
parent
never
modern
tiny
tuna
event
fever
moment
prison
basic
open

Challenge Words
alert
license
select
radar
feature


Theme 5 – Heroes:  Spelling Review
redo
unsure
useless
kindness
easier
copied
crazier
seven
become
fever
dislike
movement
displease
cities
families
worried
angriest
paper
parent
prison
reread
peaceful
powerful
studied
earlier
happiest
visit
reason
never
tuna






List 26 – Salmon Summer  (Three-syllable Words)
Core Words
deliver
important
enemy
alphabet
favorite
together
animal
hospital
camera
victory
another
hamburger
yesterday
remember
however
carpenter
tomorrow
library
banana
several

Challenge Words
interview
article
halibut
edition
photograph


List 27 – Unusual Spellings
Core Words
health
flood
guide
guard
blood
month
style
wonder
type
magazine
wealth
guest
against
guess
guilt
gasoline
receive
women
says
neither

Challenge Words
vaccine
quarantine
guarantee
threaten
rhyme



List 28 – Silent Consonants
Core Words
knight
wrinkle
listen
thumb
soften
limb
calm
wrist
honor
handsome
knit
lamb
kneel
answer
often
knob
climb
calf
palm
honest

Challenge Words
drought
knoll
heir
debt
wrestle


List F3 – VCCV patterns
Core Words
garden
apron
entire
person
yellow
narrow
bucket
silver
rather
chicken
rabbit
number
secret
gather
engine
rocket
package
declare
nothing
limber

Challenge Words
publish
rascal
reflect
vibrate
disturb

Advanced / Tier 3
distance
convince
corral
ablaze
author
reflex
regret
argue
frontier
stampede
standard
nephew
refresh
snicker
across
insert
bracket
decline
descent
whisker

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