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