Spelling Lesson 1
Words with Short Vowels

1. cash
2. trim
3. lock
4. damp
5. led
6. rod
7. rent
8. silk
9. pump
10. twin
11. dull
12. drag
13. pants
14. bet
15. grip
16. fond
17. lend
18. grant
19. shut
20. club
21. across
22. against
23. half
24. * prove
25. * insist
26. * plead
27. * certain
28. * ambitious

Spelling Lesson 2
Words with Short Vowels

1. insect
2. lantern
3. expect
4. ugly
5. invent
6. perhaps
7. garage
8. project
9. upset
10. imagine
11. attach
12. subject
13. itself
14. dishonest
15. active
16. content
17. delicious
18. bubble
19. collar
20. luggage
21. although
22. among
23. area
24. * contrary
25. * generous
26. * wicked
27. * obedient
28. * honorable

Spelling Lesson 3
Words with long a and long e sounds

1. bacon
2. explain
3. repeat
4. scale
5. duty
6. delay
7. sweep
8. raise
9. leader
10. paste
11. decorate
12. heel
13. greet
14. gravy
15. pace
16. aim
17. create
18. drain
19. heal
20. receive
21. hear
22. quite
23. notice
24. * majestic
25. * courtly
26. * valiant
27. * glorious
28. * venture

Spelling List 4
(Words with long i and long o sounds)

1. climate
2. obey
3. hose
4. loaf
5. rise
6. crime
7. excite
8. follow
9. coast
10. poem
11. fold
12. code
13. grind
14. dial
15. rely
16. identify
17. type
18. goal
19. guide
20. height
21. important
22. course
23. whole
24. * structures
25. * communities
26. * colonies
27. * civilization
28. * dwellers

Spelling Lesson 5
(Words with /u/ and /yu/ sounds)

1. rooster
2. truly
3. prove
4. suitcase
5. include
6. spoon
7. useful
8. lose
9. fool
10. remove
11. boost
12. cruel
13. disapprove
14. reunion
15. mood
16. bruise
17. nephew
18. jewel
19. dispute
20. canoe
21. stood
22. through
23. knew
24. * decimal
25. * tally
26. * compute
27. * hundredth
28. * calculate

Spelling Lesson 7
(Words with long vowel sounds)

1. indicate
2. creep
3. pony
4. daisy
5. indeed
6. roast
7. nighttime
8. evening
9. faith
10. awhile
11. fable
12. despite
13. bolt
14. theme
15. site
16. narrow
17. flea
18. decay
19. foam
20. gigantic
21. English
22. remember
23. enough
24. * thriving
25. * deteriorating
26. * demolish
27. * renovated
28. * preservation

Spelling Lesson 8
(Words with /o/ and /or/)

1. port
2. crawl
3. fault
4. explore
5. sort
6. coffee
7. saucer
8. border
9. aboard
10. lawn
11. worn
12. false
13. source
14. fawn
15. chore
16. hoarse
17. forward
18. astronaut
19. coarse
20. broad
21. sentences
22. surface
23. pattern
24. * welfare
25. * comfort
26. * convenience

Spelling Lesson 9
(Words with /ou/ and /oi/)

1. outfit
2. powerful
3. enjoyable
4. convoy
5. background
6. mount
7. couch
8. howl
9. shower
10. hoist
11. appoint
12. eyebrow
13. rejoice
14. sour
15. drowsy
16. turquoise
17. loyalty
18. doubt
19. prowl
20. though
21. thought
22. country
23. toward
24. * shriveled
25. * insistent
26. * impatient
27. * stunned
28. * peaceful

Spelling Lesson 10
(Words with /ar/)

1. carve
2. prepare
3. everywhere
4. wherever
5. compare
6. darkness
7. affair
8. carefully
9. remark
10. airline
11. arch
12. beware
13. scar
14. rare
15. target
16. harness
17. arctic
18. tardy
19. barge
20. chart
21. heart
22.problems
23. certain
24. * delighted
25. * impressed
26. * agreeable
27. * shocked
28. * depressed

Spelling Lesson 11
(Words with /ir/ and /ur/

1. deserve
2. return
3. stir
4. appear
5. career
6. clerk
7. disturb
8. engineer
9. frontier
10. severe
11. shear
12. alert
13. term
14. smear
15. atmosphere
16. purse
17. verse
18. pier
19. peer
20. journey
21. eyes
22. during
23. known
24. * beehive
25. * nectar
26. * honeycomb
27. * pollen
28. * beeswax

Spelling Lesson 13
( words with /u/ and /yu/)

1. understood
2. tour
3. jury
4. assure
5. scrapbook
6. surely
7. yours
8. childhood
9. pudding
10. plural
11. textbook
12. bulletin
13. lure
14. likelihood
15. cushion
16. mature
17. endurance
18. bureau
19. fury
20. rural
21. weather
22. their
23. * accurate
24. * championship
25. * opponent
26. * determination
27. * competition

Spelling Lesson 14
(Words with er, or, ar,and yer)

1. discover
2. polar
3. figure
4. beggar
5. sweater
6. pepper
7. hamburger
8. flavor
9. leather
10. mayor
11. clover
12. spider
13. master
14. failure
15. regular
16. terror
17. shoulder
18. labor
19. particular
20. lawyer
21. beautiful
22. distance
23. front
24. * obstacle
25. * desperation
26. * scheme
27. * compromise

Spelling Lesson 15
(Words with le, al, el,il)

1. saddle
2. central
3. shovel
4. barrel
5. tunnel
6. puzzle
7. single
8. camel
9. special
10. capital
11. council
12. kettle
13. normal
14. medal
15. civil
16. capitol
17. crystal
18. syllable
19. informal
20. impossible
21. complete
22. quicklly
23. hundred
24. * treatment
25. * diagnose
26. * monitor
27. * injection
28. * interact

Spelling Lesson 16
(Words with en)

1. broken
2. apron
3. napkin
4. fasten
5. sharpen
6. frozen
7. written
8. pigeon
9. pardon
10. captain
11. carton
12. canyon
13. oxen
14. burden
15. chosen
16. mountain
17. glisten
18. cinnamon
19. raisin
20. foreign
21. mountains
22. language
23. piece
24. * starvation
25. * gratitude
26. * bravery
27. * survive

Spelling Lesson 17
(Words with /s/)

1. seal
2. scent
3. notice
4. century
5. toss
6. celebrate
7. force
8. soak
9. message
10. medicine
11. scientific
12. case
13. basement
14. gasoline
15. blossom
16. mistake
17. recent
18. basic
19. sandal
20. sword
21. possible
22. probably
23. problem
24. * abroad
25. * Africa
26. * Asia
27. * Europe
28. * Australia

Lesson 19
(Words with /z/ and /zh/)

1. squeeze
2. zipper
3. visit
4. praise
5. musical
6. pleasure
7. suppose
8. usually
9. freeze
10. surprise
11. tease
12. breeze
13. opposite
14. amuse
15. treasure
16. lizard
17. pause
18. represent
19. amaze
20. dizzy
21. sentence
22. simple
23. special
24. * omen
25. * responsibility
26. * jinx
27. * guilt

Spelling Lesson 20
(Words with silent letters and digraphs)

1. wrist
2. naughty
3. whatever
4. flight
5. chalkboard
6. wring
7. whisper
8. wheelchair
9. brighten
10. kneel
11. whine
12. dough
13. wrench
14. wharf
15. bough
16. wreck
17. wrinkle
18. sought
19. knight
20. flashlight
21. suddenly
22. system
23. whether
24. * author
25. * acceptance
26. * original
27. * submit
28. * rejection

Spelling Lesson 21
(Words with /m/ and /n/)

1. main
2. navy
3. banner
4. known
5. palm
6. gnaw
7. plum
8. mane
9. grown
10. crumb
11. modern
12. honest
13. committee
14. knead
15. autumn
16. assignment
17. column
18. channel
19. gnat
20. command
21. which
22. reached
23. scientists
24. * hoax
25. * account
26. * achievements
27. * credit
28. * critical

Spelling Lesson 22
(Words with /j/ and /f/)

1. gem
2. stage
3. agent
4. margin
5. hinge
6. lodge
7. trophy
8. budge
9. gopher
10. fudge
11. paragraph
12. physical
13. telegraph
14. emergency
15. manage
16. shortage
17. postage
18. ledge
19. average
20. triumph
21. points
22. music
23. single
24. * grandaunt
25. * grandnephews
26. * grandnieces
27. * cousins

Spelling Lesson 23
(Words with /sh/ and /ch/)

1. shine
2. stitch
3. manufacture
4. cheap
5. especially
6. speech
7. shake
8. ditch
9. shove
10. patient
11. clutch
12. ancient
13. bench
14. polish
15. adventure
16. English
17. orchard
18. caution
19. purchase
20. sketch
21. laugh
22. probably
23. important
24. against
25. * cubic
26. * dimension
27. * kilometer
28. * capacity
29. * spiral

Spelling Lesson 25
(Words with consonant clusters)

1. strength
2. thrown
3. scribble
4. script
5. strain
6. straighten
7. threaten
8. screech
9. stray
10. scheme
11. sprang
12. strawberry
13. strategy
14. throughout
15. throne
16. scramble
17. stripe
18. sprint
19. schedule
20. scrape
21. country
22. course
23. enough
24. * thrill
25. * commotion
26. * throngs
27. * stampede
28. * frenzy

Spelling Lesson 26
(Prefixes)

1. prevent
2. produce
3. review
4. provide
5. protect
6. prefix
7. program
8. preview
9. refill
10. repay
11. recover
12. remain
13. recall
14. preschool
15. protest
16. prepaid
17. prehistoric
18. rebuild
19. propose
20. pretest
21. hundred
22. important
23. language
24. * investigate
25. * forbid
26. * descend

Spelling Lesson 27
(Suffixes)

1. education
2. position
3. correction
4. invention
5. imagination
6. direction
7. invitation
8. population
9. discussion
10. collection
11. expression
12. explosion
13. mission
14. conviction
15. instruction
16. information
17. suggestion
18. concentration
19. attention
20. selection
21. notice
22. piece
23. possible
24. * prey
25. * devour
26. * violent
27. * pursue
28. * confront

Spelling Lesson 28
(Suffixes)

1. allowance
2. entertainment
3. wonderful
4. settlement
5. painful
6. movement
7. peaceful
8. statement
9. treatment
10. dreadful
11. amusement
12. harmful
13. argument
14. grateful
15. announcement
16. equipment
17. government
18. graceful
19. entrance
20. performance
21. probably
22. quite
23. remember
24. * gingerly
25. * wearily
26. * instinctively
27. * piteously
28. * intently

Spelling Lesson 29
(Contractions)

1. hasn't
2. they've
3. you'll
4. we'd
5. would've
6. they're
7. haven't
8. she'd
9. must've
10. they'll
11. you'd
12. shouldn't
13. should've
14. you've
15. what'll
16. who'd
17. needn't
18. how's
19. mustn't
20. shan't
21. sentence
22. special
23. suddenly
24. * conserve
25. * thermostat
26. * insulation
27. * petroleum
28. * appliances

Spelling Lesson 31
(homophones and homographs)

1. break
2. male
3. record
4. bore
5. stable
6. refuse
7. wound
8. file
9. contest
10. stock
11. waste
12. vault
13. brake
14. foul
15. mail
16. fowl
17. pain
18. waist
19. range
20. pane
21. their
22. though
23. thought
24. * automatically
25. * observation
26. * reliable
27. * skeptical

Spelling Lesson 32
(Compound Words)

1. cupboard
2. ice-skating
3. mailbox
4. wallpaper
5. homesick
6. all right
7. no one
8. twenty-five
9. goldfish
10. post office
11. pocketbook
12. housework
13. somebody
14. field trip
15. nobody
16. peanut butter
17. nightgown
18. merry-go-round
19. vice-president
20. teaspoon
21. through
22. toward
23. weather
24. * reptiles
25. * meat-eaters
26. * plant-eaters
27. * fossils

Spelling List 33
(State Names)

1. North
2. South
3. East
4. West
5. Kansas
6. Idaho
7. Iowa
8. Alaska
9. Hawaii
10. Florida
11. California
12. Connecticut
13. Delaware
14. Colorado
15. Arkansas
16. Illinois
17. Alabama
18. Indiana
19. Georgia
20. Arizona
21. whether
22. which
23. whole
24. * incredible
25. * rival
26. * boast
27. * challenge
28. * stump

Spelling Lesson 34
(State Names)

1. Northwest
2. Northeast
3. Southwest
4. Southeast
5. Kentucky
6. Maine
7. New York
8. Maryland
9. Nevada
10. Missouri
11. Montana
12. Michigan
13. Louisiana
14. Minnesota
15. Nebraska
16. New Mexico
17. New Jersey
18. Massachusetts
19. Mississippi
20. New Hampshire
21. although
22. their
23. probably
24. important
25. * alien
26. * communicate
27. * monsters
28. * invasion
29. * universe

Spelling Lesson 35
(State Names)

1. Oregon
2. America
3. Ohio
4. Texas
5. Virginia
6. Vermont
7. Oklahoma
8. Utah
9. Tennessee
10. Wyoming
11. United States
12. Washington
13. Pennsylvania
14. North Dakota
15. South Dakota
16. South Carolina
17. West Virginia
18. Wisconsin
19. North Carolina
20. Rhode Island
21. * harbor
22. * anchor
23. * steamboat
24. * seacoast
25. * schooner

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