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4th Grade Spelling Lists
 
 1.1 Because of Winn-Dixie (short vowels VCCV)
  1. accident
  2. admire
  3. cannon
  4. contest
  5. custom
  6. engine
  7. fabric
  8. finger
  9. flatten
  10. gutter
  11. happen
  12. intend
  13. magnet
  14. mammal
  15. method
  16. mitten
  17. rally
  18. rascal
  19. soccer
  20. sudden
 1.2 Lewis and Clark and Me (long a and i)
  1. bait
  2. braid
  3. detail
  4. dismay
  5. eight
  6. freight
  7. frighten
  8. grain
  9. height
  10. highway
  11. raisin
  12. right
  13. sigh
  14. sleigh
  15. slight
  16. spray
  17. thigh
  18. tight
  19. trait
  20. weigh
 1.3 On the Banks of Plum Creek (long e and o)
  1. below
  2. croak
  3. each
  4. eagle
  5. float
  6. flown
  7. foam
  8. freedom
  9. greet
  10. grown
  11. hollow
  12. indeed
  13. least
  14. rainbow
  15. season
  16. seaweed
  17. shallow
  18. sweet
  19. three
  20. throat
 1.4 The Horned Toad Prince (long e)
  1. alley
  2. balcony
  3. breezy
  4. calorie
  5. city
  6. collie
  7. country
  8. empty
  9. finally
  10. hockey
  11. honey
  12. jury
  13. misty
  14. money
  15. movie
  16. prairie
  17. rookie
  18. steady
  19. trolley
  20. valley
 1.5 Letters Home from Yosemite (long u)
  1. afternoon
  2. bruise
  3. confuse
  4. cruel
  5. cruise
  6. curfew
  7. duty
  8. excuse
  9. flute
  10. groove
  11. huge
  12. humor
  13. juice
  14. mood
  15. pupil
  16. scooter
  17. smooth
  18. threw
  19. truth
  20. usual
Unit 1 Review
  1. custom
  2. method
  3. rascal
  4. accident
  5. weigh
  6. height
  7. sleigh
  8. freight
  9. throat
  10. flown
  11. foam
  12. grown
  13. balcony
  14. calorie
  15. trolley
  16. alley
  17. cruise
  18. juice
  19. usual
  20. cruel
 2.1 What Jo Did (adding –s and –es)
  1. batteries
  2. bunches
  3. companies
  4. costumes
  5. counties
  6. daisies
  7. delays
  8. donkeys
  9. friends
  10. hobbies
  11. holidays
  12. memories
  13. monkeys
  14. months
  15. plays
  16. sandwiches
  17. scratches
  18. supplies
  19. taxes
  20. teammates
 2.2 Coyote School News (irregular plurals)
  1. beliefs
  2. children
  3. cliffs
  4. cuffs
  5. feet
  6. halves
  7. hoofs
  8. leaves
  9. lives
  10. loaves
  11. men
  12. moose
  13. patios
  14. potatoes
  15. radios
  16. sheep
  17. themselves
  18. tomatoes
  19. tornadoes
  20. videos
 2.3 Scene Two (words with ar, or)
  1. alarm
  2. apartment
  3. argue
  4. Arkansas
  5. backyard
  6. corner
  7. Florida
  8. force
  9. forest
  10. form
  11. forward
  12. garbage
  13. garden
  14. morning
  15. partner
  16. sharp
  17. sport
  18. start
  19. storm
  20. story
 2.4 Horse Heroes (digraphs with ng, nk, ph, wh)
  1. among
  2. belong
  3. blank
  4. blink
  5. chunk
  6. elephant
  7. graph
  8. nephew
  9. shrink
  10. skunk
  11. strong
  12. Thanksgiving
  13. think
  14. trunk
  15. wharf
  16. wheel
  17. whiskers
  18. whisper
  19. white
  20. young
 2.5 So You Want to Be President? (words with ear, ir, our, ur)
  1. birthday
  2. burrow
  3. courage
  4. courtesy
  5. curtain
  6. early
  7. first
  8. furniture
  9. hamburger
  10. heard
  11. journal
  12. nourish
  13. purpose
  14. purse
  15. return
  16. turkey
  17. turtle
  18. search
  19. surface
  20. survey
Unit 2 Review
  1. friends
  2. sandwiches
  3. months
  4. daisies
  5. themselves
  6. lives
  7. leaves
  8. potatoes
  9. morning
  10. Florida
  11. garden
  12. force
  13. whispers
  14. nephew
  15. elephant
  16. among
  17. courage
  18. heard
  19. purpose
  20. furniture
 3.1 The Man Who Named the Clouds (adding –ed and –ing)
  1. danced
  2. dancing
  3. dried
  4. drying
  5. happened
  6. happening
  7. hurried
  8. hurrying
  9. noticed
  10. noticing
  11. robbed
  12. robbing
  13. slipped
  14. slipping
  15. stopped
  16. stopping
  17. studied
  18. studying
  19. watched
  20. watching
 3.2 Adelina’s Whales (homophones)
  1. allowed
  2. aloud
  3. beat
  4. beet
  5. brake
  6. break
  7. by
  8. bye
  9. peace
  10. piece
  11. their
  12. there
  13. they’re
  14. threw
  15. through
  16. throne
  17. thrown
  18. to
  19. too
  20. two
 3.3 How Night Came from the Sea (vowel sound in shout)
  1. announce
  2. boundary
  3. browse
  4. couch
  5. coward
  6. drowsy
  7. eyebrow
  8. flowerpot
  9. grouch
  10. hound
  11. however
  12. mound
  13. mountain
  14. ounce
  15. outdoors
  16. scout
  17. scowl
  18. shout
  19. towel
  20. trout
 3.4 Eye of the Storm (compound words)
  1. anyway
  2. campfire
  3. doorbell
  4. fireworks
  5. flashlight
  6. haircut
  7. highway
  8. homemade
  9. jellyfish
  10. laptop
  11. loudspeaker
  12. shoelace
  13. shortcut
  14. skateboard
  15. sometimes
  16. thunderstorm
  17. touchdown
  18. understand
  19. upstairs
  20. watermelon
 3.5 Paul Bunyan (possessives)
  1. aunt’s
  2. aunts’
  3. boy’s
  4. boys’
  5. brother’s
  6. brothers’
  7. family’s
  8. families’
  9. girl’s
  10. girls’
  11. hers
  12. its
  13. man’s
  14. men’s
  15. mine
  16. ours
  17. teacher’s
  18. teachers’
  19. theirs
  20. yours
Unit 3 Review
  1. hurried
  2. studied
  3. happening
  4. peace
  5. piece
  6. there
  7. their
  8. they’re
  9. to
  10. too
  11. boundary
  12. mountain
  13. browse
  14. drowsy
  15. shoelace
  16. fireworks
  17. family’s
  18. families’
  19. brother’s
  20. brothers’
 4.1 The Case of the Gasping Garbage (contractions)
  1. aren’t
  2. couldn’t
  3. doesn’t
  4. don’t
  5. hadn’t
  6. haven’t
  7. here’s
  8. it’s
  9. I’ve
  10. shouldn’t
  11. there’s
  12. they’re
  13. wasn’t
  14. we’re
  15. we’ve
  16. when’s
  17. where’s
  18. won’t
  19. wouldn’t
  20. you’re
 4.2 Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon (final syllable patterns)
  1. animal
  2. brother
  3. calendar
  4. caterpillar
  5. chicken
  6. deliver
  7. eleven
  8. frighten
  9. jungle
  10. mumble
  11. natural
  12. needle
  13. oval
  14. paddle
  15. pitcher
  16. several
  17. shelter
  18. summer
  19. threaten
  20. together
 4.3 Navajo Code Talkers (consonant digraph /sh/)
  1. addition
  2. caution
  3. creation
  4. especially
  5. extension
  6. gracious
  7. lotion
  8. mansion
  9. motion
  10. nation
  11. official
  12. politician
  13. portion
  14. precious
  15. solution
  16. special
  17. suspension
  18. tension
  19. tradition
  20. vacation
 4.4 Seeker of Knowledge (consonants /j/, /ks/ and /kw/)
  1. bridge
  2. charge
  3. equal
  4. excellent
  5. except
  6. excited
  7. exercise
  8. expect
  9. expert
  10. explain
  11. fudge
  12. knowledge
  13. liquid
  14. quart
  15. queen
  16. question
  17. quick
  18. quilt
  19. Texas
  20. village
4.5 Encyclopedia Brown (prefixes un-, dis-, in-)
  1. disapprove
  2. discontinue
  3. discount
  4. disobey
  5. disorder
  6. disrepair
  7. disrespect
  8. distrust
  9. inability
  10. incomplete
  11. indirect
  12. unaware
  13. uncertain
  14. unfair
  15. unimportant
  16. unlikely
  17. unlisted
  18. unopened
  19. unsolved
  20. unsuspecting
Unit 4 Review
  1. doesn’t
  2. haven’t
  3. shouldn’t
  4. they’re
  5. caterpillar
  6. frighten
  7. pitcher
  8. threaten
  9. creation
  10. especially
  11. gracious
  12. precious
  13. suspension
  14. tradition
  15. exercise
  16. knowledge
  17. disapprove
  18. inability
  19. uncertain
  20. unsuspecting
 5.1 Smokejumpers (multisyllabic words)
  1. declaration
  2. disagreeable
  3. disobedient
  4. displacement
  5. gleefully
  6. incorrectly
  7. incredibly
  8. midshipman
  9. misdialed
  10. prerecorded
  11. questionable
  12. reaction
  13. refreshment
  14. repayment
  15. retirement
  16. sportsmanship
  17. unbreakable
  18. undefined
  19. unhappily
  20. watchfully
 5.2 Lost City (words with double consonants)
  1. borrow
  2. bottle
  3. bubble
  4. current
  5. different
  6. grasshopper
  7. hobby
  8. lettuce
  9. matter
  10. odd
  11. offer
  12. rabbit
  13. ridden
  14. saddle
  15. shudder
  16. slippers
  17. suffer
  18. tomorrow
  19. worry
  20. written
 5.3 Cliff Hanger (Greek word parts)
  1. autograph
  2. barometer
  3. biography
  4. diameter
  5. headphones
  6. megaphone
  7. microchip
  8. microphone
  9. microscope
  10. microwave
  11. paragraph
  12. perimeter
  13. periscope
  14. phonics
  15. photograph
  16. saxophone
  17. symphony
  18. telegraph
  19. telephone
  20. telescope
 5.4 Antarctic Journal (words with Latin roots)
  1. abrupt
  2. bankrupt
  3. contradict
  4. dictate
  5. dictionary
  6. dislocate
  7. disrupt
  8. erupt
  9. export
  10. import
  11. interrupt
  12. locally
  13. locate
  14. location
  15. passport
  16. portable
  17. predict
  18. rupture
  19. transport
  20. verdict
 5.5 Moonwalk (related words)
  1. breath
  2. breathe
  3. compose
  4. composition
  5. crumb
  6. crumble
  7. heal
  8. health
  9. image
  10. imagine
  11. meter
  12. metric
  13. pleasant
  14. please
  15. product
  16. production
  17. relate
  18. relative
  19. triple
  20. triplet
Unit 5 Review
  1. sportsmanship
  2. incorrectly
  3. unhappily
  4. questionable
  5. different
  6. tomorrow
  7. ridden
  8. written
  9. paragraph
  10. biography
  11. microwave
  12. perimeter
  13. dictionary
  14. disrupt
  15. dislocate
  16. transport
  17. image
  18. imagine
  19. pleasant
  20. please
 6.1 My Brother Martin (schwa)
  1. architect
  2. Canada
  3. cement
  4. difficult
  5. element
  6. forget
  7. fortune
  8. giant
  9. gravel
  10. iron
  11. memory
  12. mystery
  13. normal
  14. notify
  15. privilege
  16. remember
  17. science
  18. stomach
  19. suppose
  20. yesterday
 6.2 Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path (prefixes mis-, non-, re-)
  1. misbehavior
  2. misfortune
  3. misplace
  4. misprint
  5. nonfiction
  6. nonprofit
  7. nonsense
  8. nonstick
  9. nonstop
  10. precaution
  11. precook
  12. prejudge
  13. prepay
  14. readjust
  15. rebound
  16. recover
  17. remove
  18. repack
  19. reseal
  20. reunion
 6.3 How Tia Lola Come to Visit Stay (suffixes –less, -ment, -ness)
  1. amazement
  2. amusement
  3. breathless
  4. countless
  5. enjoyment
  6. fairness
  7. flawless
  8. goodness
  9. greatness
  10. hopeless
  11. needless
  12. painless
  13. pavement
  14. payment
  15. punishment
  16. restless
  17. statement
  18. timeless
  19. tireless
  20. treatment
 6.4 A Gift from the Heart (suffixes –ful, -ly, -ion)
  1. actually
  2. careful
  3. certainly
  4. correction
  5. eagerly
  6. extremely
  7. harmful
  8. lonely
  9. monthly
  10. peaceful
  11. playful
  12. pollution
  13. powerful
  14. recently
  15. successful
  16. suggestion
  17. tasteful
  18. thoughtful
  19. wisely
  20. yearly
6.5 The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon (words with silent consonants)
  1. autumn
  2. castle
  3. climber
  4. clothes
  5. column
  6. half
  7. Illinois
  8. island
  9. knee
  10. known
  11. knuckles
  12. limb
  13. numb
  14. often
  15. plumbing
  16. rhyme
  17. thumb
  18. unwritten
  19. whistle
  20. wring

 

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