Hello Parents and Students!
We will be focusing on a new story from our Harcourt Reading textbook each week. Each story has its own set of spelling and vocabulary words. The list below shows all of the spelling words associated with the Harcourt stories and themes. Please check your child's agenda or homework folder to see which words and stories are the focus for the week. You can visit Harcourt Storytown online to view activities for each story as well as a glossary for the text.
LESSON 1 | LESSON 2 | LESSON 3 | LESSON 4 | LESSON 5 |
Story: The Hot and Cold Summer | Story: Mighty Jackie: The Strike Out Queen | Story: Danrita Brown Leaves Town | Story: Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain | Story: Pedro Puts on a Play |
Skill: Short vowels and Vowel Diagraphs | Skill: Long vowels and Vowel diagraphs | Skill: Variant vowels and Vowel diphthongs | Skill: Inflected endings –ed and -ing | Skill: Review Skills |
Spelling Words: 1. pact 2. brand 3. brick 4. crop 5. broad 6. tread 7. film 8. else 9. gram 10. gum 11. dread 12. spend 13. past 14. plot 15. check 16. split 17. sting 18. strap 19. task 20. twin 21. gingerly 22. ditch 23. pleasure 24. penguin 25. lecture | Spelling Words: 1. cheese2. heel 3. season 4. boast 5. chief 6. gape 7. aim 8. brain 9. fluke 10. crayon 11. eagle 12. throw 13. rose 14. student 15. goal 16. woke 17. ripen 18. cube 19. rainbow 20. scrape 21. teenage 22. obedience 23. bowling 24. league 25. migraine | Spelling Words: 1. toil2. faucet 3. boyhood 4. choice 5. dawn 6. awful 7. foist 8. daughter 9. flaw 10. annoyed 11. royal 12. allow 13. destroy 14. blew 15. spoon 16. shampoo 17. brown 18. renew 19. wooden 20. auction 21. boulevard 22. browse 23. cashew 24. moonbeam 25. laundry | Spelling Words: 1. counting2. craned 3. seemed 4. burned 5. chopped 6. cracked 7. begged 8. moving 9. slipped 10. sailing 11. trimmed 12. shopping 13. returned 14. watching 15. pushed 16. visited 17. cringed 18. screamed 19. scratching 20. flapping 21. hovered 22. grabbed 23. realizing 24. accusing 25. nudged | Spelling Words: 1. tread2. broad 3. split 4. chief 5. season 6. brain 7. throw 8. goal 9. scrape 10. choice 11. allow 12. auction 13. flaw 14. daughter 15. destroy 16. renew 17. boyhood 18. returned 19. chopped 20. counting |
LESSON 6 | LESSON 7 | LESSON 8 | LESSON 9 | LESSON 10 |
Story: On the Banks of Plum Creek | Story: Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | Story: Three Little Cyberpigs | Story: Weaving a California Tradition | Story: Emerald's Eggs |
Skill: Consonant -le | Skill: VCCV: Same Medial Consonants | Skill: VCCV: Different Medial Consonants | Skill: VCCCV | Skill: Review Skills |
Spelling Words: 1. circle | Spelling Words: 1. letter 2. ladder 3. appear 4. lesson 5. soccer 6. classic 7. hollow 8. supper 9. accent 10. pizza 11. officer 12. lettuce 13. better 14. slipper 15. bottom 16. ribbon 17. summer 18. college 19. occur 20. rabbit 21. lullaby 22. hurriedly 23. happiness 24. scattered 25. issue | Spelling Words: 1. history | Spelling Words: 1. monster | Spelling Words: 1. castle |
LESSON 11 | LESSON 12 | LESSON 13 | LESSON 14 | LESSON 15 |
Story: Mimicry and Camouflage | Story: Mountains | Story: Fire Storm | Story: The Stranger | Story: The Adventurers |
Skill: VCV Pattern | Skill: Prefixes: re-, un-, non | Skill: Suffixes: -able, -ible, -ness, -ment, -less | Skill: Words ending with /en/ sound (-en, -on, -in, -an) | Skill: Review Skills |
Spelling Words: 1. begin2. vanish 3. bonus 4. legal 5. event 6. moment 7. motive 8. native 9. suburb 10. mimic 11. paper 12. pilot 13. raven 14. rival 15. relish 16. silent 17. solar 18. spider 19. super 20. virus 21. basis 22. enemy 23. balance 24. chemical 25. fiber | Spelling Words: 1. reuse2. restart 3. retell 4. resend 5. replace 6. uncork 7. unstuck 8. unannounced 9. unpleasant 10. unchain 11. unfit 12. nonprofit 13. nonmetal 14. recall 15. nontoxic 16. unwelcome 17. reproduce 18. retrace 19. uninvited 20. reapply 21. unchanging 22. unyielding 23. nonexistent 24. refinish 25. reprogram | Spelling Words: 1. likable2. removable 3. printable 4. adorable 5. comfortable 6. durable 7. usable 8. invisible 9. responsible 10. darkness 11. tidiness 12. silliness 13. excitement 14. government 15. requirement 16. loneliness 17. harmless 18. hopeless 19. fearless 20. horrible 21. wilderness 22. feasible 23. irritable 24. relentless 25. advertisement | Spelling Words: 1. apron2. button 3. canyon 4. certain 5. chicken 6. cardigan 7. cotton 8. dragon 9. even 10. fountain 11. gallon 12. horizon 13. listen 14. orphan 15. pardon 16. pollen 17. prison 18. siren 19. swollen 20. driven 21. dolphin 22. opinion 23. oxygen 24. veteran 25. option | Spelling Words: 1. event2. rival 3. solar 4. moment 5. unannounced 6. reuse 7. retrace 8. unpleasant 9. nonmetal 10. likable 11. comfortable 12. horrible 13. invisible 14. loneliness 15. requirement 16. fearless 17. cotton 18. listen 19. fountain 20. orphan |
LESSON 16 | LESSON 17 | LESSON 18 | LESSON 19 | LESSON 20 |
Story: So You Want to Be an Inventor? | Story: Just Like Me | Story: Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life | Story: Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie | Story: The Case of the Too- Hot Apple Cider |
Skill: Endings / el / (-al, -el, -il, -le) | Skill: Endings /er/ (-ar, -er, -or, -re) | Skill: Word Parts: over-, under-, sub- | Skill: Irregular Plurals and Possessives | Skill: Review Skills |
Spelling Words: 1. tropical2. animal 3. April 4. arrival 5. trample 6. bottle 7. camel 8. capital 9. couple 10. swivel 11. festival 12. gentle 13. level 14. national 15. normal 16. tremble 17. puddle 18. rebel 19. single 20. tunnel 21. civil 22. snorkel 23. double 24. dribble 25. original | Spelling Words: 1. lunar2. cellar 3. collar 4. corner 5. danger 6. director 7. doctor 8. dollar 9. tinker 10. finger 11. honor 12. horror 13. labor 14. master 15. motor 16. ancestor 17. checkers 18. power 19. regular 20. sugar 21. contractor 22. cellular 23. hamburger 24. pasture 25. inventor | Spelling Words: 1. overactive2. overbite 3. overboard 4. overdrive 5. overestimate 6. overhand 7. overheat 8. overpass 9. overreact 10. underline 11. underbrush 12. underdeveloped 13. undergo 14. underhand 15. underpass 16. underscore 17. underwater 18. submarine 19. subway 20. overact 21. undertow 22. overlook 23. overwhelmed 24. subcommittee 25. subarctic | Spelling Words: 1. babies’2. baby’s 3. child’s 4. children 5. classes 6. class’s 7. sheep 8. feet 9. elk 10. fish 11. fishes’ 12. goose’s 13. geese 14. jeans 15. mouse’s 16. mice 17. teeth 18. women 19. woman’s 20. moose 21. crossroads 22. family’s 23. headquarters 24. person’s 25. people’s | Spelling Words: 1. arrival2. gentle 3. national 4. single 5. level 6. collar 7. doctor 8. checkers 9. power 10. overboard 11. overheat 12. underbrush 13. undergo 14. subway 15. sheep 16. class’s 17. fishes’ 18. women 19. jeans 20. fish |
LESSON 21 | LESSON 22 | LESSON 23 | LESSON 24 | LESSON 25 |
Story: Because of Winn Dixie | Story: My Diary from Here to There | Story: The Cricket in Times Square | Story: Mangrove Wilderness | Story: Welcome to Chinatown! |
Skill: Words with Suffixes: -ant, -ent, -ist, -ian. | Skill: Word Parts: in, out, down, up | Skill: Suffixes: -ation, -ition, -al, -ial | Skill: Suffixes in Combination | Skill: Review Skills |
Spelling Words: 1. assistant | Spelling Words: 1. incomplete | Spelling Words: 1. decoration | Spelling Words: 1. additional 2. beautifully 3. blissfully 4. boastfully 5. carefully 6. cheerfully 7. colorfully 8. educational 9. effortlessly 10. endlessly 11. guiltlessly 12. joyfully 13. meaningfully 14. playfully 15. restfully 16. respectfully 17. childishness 18. truthfully 19. usefully 20. powerfully 21. occasionally 22. blamelessness 23. sentimentally 24. gleefulness 25. motionlessly | Spelling Words: 1. radiant 2. confident 3. engineer 4. typist 5. electrician 6. inexact 7. outdated 8. downfall 9. upfront 10. upwind 11. admiration 12. addition 13. emotional 14. abdominal 15. testimonial 16. decoration 17. effortlessly 18. meaningfully 19. truthfully 20. carefully |
|