Spelling Words (2023-24)




SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 1st:

Story: "Because of Winn Dixie" (Chapters 1-7)

blade, gray, past, afraid, magic, delay, amaze, drain, maybe, break, sale, hang, stain, glass, raft, jail, crayon, fact, stale, steak, fraction, trait

Challenge Word: peculiar


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 8th:

Story: “Because of Winn Dixie” (Chapters 8-15)

admire, magnet, contest, method, custom, rally, soccer, engine, sudden, finger, accident, mitten, intend, fabric, flatten, rascal, gutter, mammal, happen, cannon

Challenge Word:  concoction


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 15th:

Story: “Because of Winn Dixie” (Chapters 16-26)

skill, crime, grind, tonight, brick, flight, live, chill, delight, build, ditch, decide, witness, wind, district, inch, sigh, fright, remind, split

Challenge Word:  melancholy


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 22nd:
Story: "The Stranger"
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 Word: conundrum

SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 28th, from the story, Cendrillon:

harbor, final, middle, weather, labor, model, chapter, special, sugar, bottle, medal, collar, proper, towel, beggar, battle, trouble, shower, uncle, doctor,

*Challenge Word: omnipotent 


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of October 6th:

from the story “Focus on Plays”

heard, herd, loan, lone, flea, flee, hall, haul, forth, fourth, heal, heel, steak, stake, pare, pear, berry, bury, groan, grown, Challenge Word:  integrity

SPELLING WORDS for next week:  (from “Heat Wave”) dancing, skipped, hiking, flipped, snapping, raced, landed,

pleasing, checking, dared, dimmed, rubbing, striped, wasting, traced, stripped, tanning, smelling, phoning, fainted, *cacophony


SPELLING Words for Friday, October 27th:

Martin Luther, afraid, church, knight, monk, trust, choir, shield, scare, forgiveness, indulgence, Lutheran, heaven, victory, statements

Challenge Word: Reformation

SPELLING Words for Friday, November 3rd: (from Grandfather’s Journey)

snow, grind, still, coast, odd, crime, gold, wrote, flight, build, broke, blind, folk, grown, shock, ripe, coal, inch, sigh, built, *hullabaloo

SPELLING Words for Friday, November 10th:

(from “The Butterfly” by Patricia Polacco)

aunt, women, unusually, village, school, dream, window, confection, soldier, whisper, protect, understand, glorious, children, ditch, precious, squeeze, flutter, iris, shabby, *allegiance


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, November 17th: (from “Molly’s Pilgrim”) admired, ignorant, pilgrim, model, naturally, taunted, modern, tenement, giggle, clothespin, *Wampanoag

SPELLING WORDS for Friday, December 1st:

From "Akiak"

gain, cream, sweet, safe, past, reach, kept, gray, field,

break, east, shape, steep, pray, pain, glass, west, sheep, steak, chief

Challenge Word: courageous


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, January 12th: (from “Happy Birthday, Dr. King!”)

peaceful, protest, fare, injustice, boycott, civil rights, dream, equality, freedom, movement, treatment, kindness, *stupendous

SPELLING for next Friday, February 15th:

(from Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary)

SPELLING WORDS for Friday, February 4th: pest, grownup, kindergarten, tricycle, sloppy, disappointed, cleverness, managed, alarmed, costume, *especially

SPELLING for next Friday, February 23rd,

(from “Riding in the Cars,” an excerpt from By the Shores of Silver Lake)

steel, steal, led, lead, wait, weight, wear, ware, creak, creek, beet, beat, meet, meat, peek, peak, deer, dear, ring, wring, *conductor


SPELLING for next Friday, March 1st: (from the story, “Tomas and the Library Lady”)

pound, howl, jaw, bounce, cause, always, shout, aloud, south, couple, drawn, south, false, proud, frown, sauce, gown, couch, dawn, mount,

Challenge Word:  omniscient

SPELLING for next Friday, March 15th: (from :Cendrillon”)

harbor, final, middle, weather, labor, model, chapter, special, sugar, bottle, medal, collar, proper, towel, beggar, battle, trouble, shower, uncle, doctor, * garrulous

 

 




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