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Here is a list of spelling words your child will be studying. Please note this list may not be the exact list your child is working on this week as changes to lists or schedules occur.

Grandfather’s Journey

snow                broke

grind                 blind

still                   folk

coast                grown

odd                  shock

crime                ripe

gold                  coal

wrote               inch

flight                 sigh

build                 built

Challenge Words

remind

approach

rigid

recognize

continent

Journeys

Reading-Writing Workshop

cannot              let’s

can’t                 we’re

don’t                I’m

haven’t             didn’t

won’t               o’clock

wouldn’t           that’s

I’d                    there’s

I’ll

Challenge Words

minute

stretch

instead

ninety

divide

Akiak

gain                  east

cream               shape

sweet               steep

safe                  pray

past                  pain

reach                glass

kept                 west

gray                  cheap

field                  steak

break               chief

Challenge Words

graceful

descent

athletic

knead

activity

Journeys Spelling Review

safe                  few

kept                 trunk

gray                  steal

grown               weight

wrote               meat

blind                 past

suit                   reach

crumb               coast

wait                  odd

creak                sigh

steep                true

gain                  tube

still                   steel

gold                  creek

crime                meet

Challenge Words

descent             remind

graceful            continue

rigid                  pour

newscast          slumber

knead               pore

By the Shores of Silver Lake

steel                 beet

steal                 beat

lead                  meet

led                    meat

wait                  peek

weight              peak

wear                 deer

ware                 dear

creak                ring

creek                wring

Challenge Words

pour

pore

vain

vein

van

Finding the Titanic

brush                suit

juice                 pump

fruit                  due

tube                  dull

lunch                tune

crumb               blew

few                   trunk

true                  sum

truth                 glue

done                 threw

Challenge Words

newscast

commute

continue

attitude

slumber

Tanya’s Reunion

wood               stood

brook               stool

tool                  hook

put                   smooth

wool                 shoot

push                 bush

full                    fool

roof                  pull

group               soup

prove               move

Challenge Words

soot

marooned

pudding

cocoon

superb

American Stories Reading-Writing Workshop

a lot                  friend

other                people

another             again

anyone             anything

every                anyway

someone           everyone

myself               first

family

Challenge Words

beautiful

clothes

cousin

everybody

weird

Tomas and the Library Lady

pound               drawn

howl                 scout

jaw                   false

bounce             proud

cause                frown

always sauce

shout                gown

aloud                couch

south                dawn

couple              mount

Challenge Words

gnaw

prowl

pounce

doubt

scrawny

American Stories Spelling Review

howl                 year

false                 alarm

sauce                horse

put                   curl

roof                  return

hardly               jaw

dairy                 dawn

charge              tool

dirty                 full

world               gear

bounce             spare

couch               cheer

wood               chore

push                 heard

pull                   search

Challenge Words

air

near

large

scare

chair

A Very Important Day

horse                heard

chore                return

firm                  cure

learn                 score

dirty                 worm

curve                thirteen

world               worn

pure                 curl

board               shirt

course              search

Challenge Words

thoroughbred

fortunate

hurdle

foreign

earnest

Boss of the Plains

gear                  starve

spear                charm

sharp                beard

stare                 hardly

alarm                spare

cheer                stairs

square              year

hairy                 charge

heart                 dairy

weird                scarce

Challenge Words

pioneer

awareness

startle

marvel

weary

Cendrillon

harbor              medal

final                  collar

middle              proper

weather            towel

labor                beggar

model               battle

chapter             trouble

special              shower

sugar                uncle

bottle                doctor

Challenge Words

shoulder

decimal

trifle

solar

cancel

That’s Amazing!  Reading-Writing Workshop

tonight              finished

whole               morning

while                coming

could                stopped

world               getting

writing              goes

build                 going

school

Challenge Words

happened

received

believe

quit

quite

The Stranger

railroad ourselves

airport              all right

seat belt            forever

everywhere       breakfast

homesick          whenever

understand        everything

background      meanwhile

anything            afternoon

already             believe

fireplace

Challenge Words

landmark

nationwide

postscript

motorcycle

handkerchief

That’s Amazing!  Spelling Review

railroad towel

homesick          medal

anything            striped

seat belt            skipped

battle                checking

beggar              all right

doctor              make-believe

pleasing            whenever

dimmed            proper

airport              uncle

understand        weather

ninety-nine        raced

final                  snapping

trouble              hiking

fainted

Challenge Words

inside

outside

birthday

baseball

sometimes

Heat Wave!

dancing dimmed

skipped            rubbing

hiking               striped

flipped              wasting

snapping           traced

raced                stripped

landed              tanning

pleasing            smelling

checking           phoning

dared               fainted

Challenge Words

breathing

tiring

urged

scrubbed

striving

Focus on Plays

top

heard                heal

herd                 heel

loan                  steak

lone                  stake

flea                   pear

hall                   berry

haul                  bury

forth                 groan

fourth               grown

Challenge Words

cereal

serial

ceiling

sealing

Focus on Mysteries

shake               speed

desk                 drain

block                fist

fright                 pride

neat                  truck

roast                 flock

prune                cone

spray                crew

plant                 blade

bread               dead

Challenge Words

proceed

cocoa

imitate

erase

polish

Problem Solvers Reading-Writing Workshop

  1. sure                  6. really           11. into                        Challenge Words
  2. here                 7. very             12. off                         1. finally          5. suppose
  3. knew               8. where          13. said                        2. different
  4. might               9. little             14. our                         3. excite
  5. pretty             10. until             15. letter                      4. truly

My Name is Maria Isabel

  1. shark                11. crooked                             Challenge Words
  2. attack              12. drink                                  1. aquatic
  3. risk                  13. topic                                  2. comic
  4. public              14. track                                  3. tropical
  5. sink                  15. blanket                              4. speckled
  6. question           16. struck                                5. peculiar
  7. electric             17. mistake
  8. jacket               18. junk
  9. blank               19. squirrel
  10. ache                 20. stomach

The Last Dragon

  1. village              11. glance                                Challenge Words
  2. cottage                        12. ridge                                  1.fleece
  3. bridge              13. manage                              2. fragrance
  4. fence               14. damage                              3. homage
  5. strange             15. since                                  4. fringe
  6. chance             16. marriage                            5.excellence
  7. twice               17. edge
  8. cage                 18. lodge
  9. change             19. cabbage
  10. carriage            20. dodge

Marven of the Great North Woods

  1. beauty             11. duty                                   Challenge Words
  2. ugly                 12. hungry                               1. fiery
  3. lazy                  13. lonely                                2. envy
  4. marry               14. alley                                   3. mercy
  5. ready               15. body                                  4. chimney
  6. sorry                16. twenty                               5. imaginary
  7. empty              17. turkey
  8. honey              18. hockey
  9. valley               19. fifty
  10. movie              20. monkey

Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

  1. redo                 11. reread                                Challenge Words
  2. treatment         12. unsure                                1. unusual
  3. rebuild             13. movement                         2. rearrange
  4. discolor           14. peaceful                             3. appointment
  5. careless            15. unpaid                               4.discontinue
  6. dislike              16. distrust                              5. resourceful
  7. sickness           17. kindness
  8. beautiful          18. useless
  9. unlucky           19. displease
  10. awful               20. powerful

Problem Solvers Spelling Review

  1. sink                  16. cottage                              Challenge Words
  2. squirrel            17. since                                  1. comic
  3. question           18. other                                  2. aquatic
  4. twenty             19. corner                                3. imaginary
  5. alley                 20.office                                  4. homage
  6. twice               21. mistake                              5. concert
  7. chance             22. attack                                6. tropical
  8. glance              23. lonely                                7. chimney
  9. thirty               24. beauty                               8. fiery
  10. afraid               25. strange                               9. fleece
  11. blanket                        26. ridge                                10. narrate
  12. crooked           27. village
  13. honey              28. suppose
  14. monkey           29. degree
  15. ready               30. whether

Sing to the Stars

  1. bottom             11. arrow                                 Challenge Words
  2. picture             12. suppose                             1. method
  3. other                13. escape                                2. concert
  4. attend              14. whether                             3. narrate
  5. capture                        15. pillow                                4. abrupt
  6. common          16. dinner                                5. challenge
  7. danger             17. thirty
  8. afraid               18. degree
  9. borrow             19. allow
  10. office               20. corner

Lou Gehrig

  1. pilot                 11. never                                 Challenge Words
  2. depend                        12. modern                              1. alert
  3. visit                 13. tiny                                    2. license
  4. human             14. tuna                                   3. select
  5. seven               15. event                                 4. radar
  6. chosen             16. fever                                  5. feature
  7. paper               17. moment
  8. reason              18. prison
  9. become            19. basic
  10. parent              20. open

Gloria Estefan

  1. sunnier             11. ferries                    Challenge Words
  2. cloudier           12. crazier                    1. iciest
  3. windier            13. funnier                   2. hazier
  4. cities                14. earlier                    3. breezier
  5. heaviest           15. copied                   4. companies
  6. prettiest           16. hobbies                  5. qualities
  7. studied                        17. angriest
  8. easier               18. emptied
  9. nosier               19. worried
  10. families            20. happiest

Heroes Reading-Writing Workshop

  1. brought              9. lying                      Challenge Words
  2. enough                        10. tying                      1.choose
  3. buy                  11. around                   2. chose
  4. guess               12. swimming              3. loose
  5. Saturday          13. head                      4. lose
  6. January            14. also                        5. millimeter
  7. February          15. tried
  8. favorite

Nature: Friend and Foe Reading-Writing Workshop

  1. their                   9. too                         Challenge Words
  2. there                10. two                        1. all right
  3. they’re             11. they                       2. usually
  4. your                 12. than                       3. eighth
  5. you’re              13. then                       4. height
  6. its                    14. right                       5. tongue
  7. it’s                   15. write
  8. to

Salmon Summer

  1. deliver               8. victory       15. banana                   Challenge Words
  2. favorite              9. remember  16. alphabet                 1. interview
  3. camera             10. library        17. hospital                  2. article
  4. yesterday         11. enemy        18. hamburger             3. halibut
  5. tomorrow        12. animal        19. carpenter               4. edition
  6. important         13. another      20. several                   5. photograph
  7. together           14. however

Heroes Spelling Review

  1. redo                 16. worried                  Challenge Words
  2. unsure              17. angriest                  1. unusual
  3. useless             18. paper                     2. resourceful
  4. kindness          19. parent                    3. breezier
  5. easier               20. prison                    4. select
  6. copied             2l.  reread                    5. radar
  7. crazier              22. peaceful                 6. discontinue
  8. seven               23. powerful                7. companies
  9. become            24. studied                  8. iciest
  10. fever                25. earlier                    9. alert
  11. dislike              26. happiest                10. license
  12. movement       27. visit
  13. displease          28. reason
  14. cities                29. never
  15. families            30. tuna

Nature: Friend and Foe Spelling Review

  1. favorite            16. blood                     Challenge Words
  2. camera             17. women                  1. halibut
  3. banana             18. listen                      2. photograph
  4. remember        19. honor                     3. rhyme
  5. neither             20. kneel                      4. drought
  6. against             21. another                  5. debt
  7. wonder                        22. library                    6. edition
  8. climb               23. deliver                   7. threaten
  9. thumb              24. says                       8. guarantee
  10. calf                  25. gasoline                 9. heir
  11. animal              26. style                     10. knoll
  12. however          27. soften
  13. alphabet           28. wrist
  14. health              29. handsome
  15. guard               30. knight

Skylark

  1. knight              11. listen                      Challenge Words
  2. soften              12. calm                       1. drought
  3. honor               13. knit                        2. knoll
  4. kneel                14. often                      3. heir
  5. climb               15. palm                      4. debt
  6. wrinkle            16. thumb                    5. wrestle
  7. limb                 17. wrist
  8. handsome        18. lamb
  9. answer             19. knob
  10. calf                  20. honest

Wildfires

  1. health              11. guide                     Challenge Words
  2. blood               12. style                       1. vaccine
  3. type                 13. wealth                   2. quarantine
  4. against            14. guilt                       3. guarantee
  5. receive             15. says                       4. threaten
  6. flood               16. guard                     5. rhyme
  7. month              17. wonder
  8. magazine         18. guest
  9. guess               19. gasoline
  10. women                        20. neither

Focus on Pourquoi Tales

  1. tiger                 11. spider                    Challenge Words
  2. belong             12. frozen                    1. prepare
  3. clever               13. figure                     2. garage
  4. wagon             14. police                     3. peril
  5. defend             15. dragon                   4. giraffe
  6. river                 16. exit                                    5. rival
  7. award              17. decide
  8. season              18. delay
  9. metal               19. finish
  10. palace              20. total

Focus on Poetry

  1. garden             11. entire                     Challenge Words
  2. yellow             12. bucket                   1. publish
  3. rather               13. rabbit                     2. rascal
  4. secret               14. engine                    3. reflect
  5. package           15. nothing                  4. vibrate
  6. apron               16. person                    5. disturb
  7. narrow             17. silver
  8. chicken            18. number
  9. gather              19. rocket
  10. declare             20. limber