Weekly Spelling Words
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Unit 1: What makes you special? 1.1: At School short vowel /a/ spelling words: man, can, nap, tap, cat, hat, not, does high frequency words: does, not, school, what grammar & writing: sentences (capitalization) comprehension skill: key details 1.2: Where I Live short vowel /i/ spelling words: pin, win, hit, sit, miss, kiss, nap, can, out, up 1.3: Our Pets L-blends spelling words: clip, flip, slip, flag, black, plan, win, sit, be, pull 1.4: Let's Be Friends short vowel /o/ spelling words: hop, top, log, hog, hot, lot, flip, black, they, too high frequency words: fun, they, make, too grammar & writing: questions and exclamations comprehension skill: key details 1.5: Let's Move words with R and S blends spelling words: spill, spin, grab, grass, drop, drip, hop, lot, two, move high frequency words: jump, run, move, two grammar & writing: writing sentences (capitalization and punctuation: periods, question marks, and exclamation marks) comprehension skill: key details Unit 2: What makes a community? 2.1: Jobs Around Town short vowel /e/ spelling words: leg, beg, men, hen, head, bread, grass, spin, there, again high frequency words: again, help, new, there, use grammar & writing: nouns (commas in a series) comprehension skill: character, setting, events 2.2: Buildings All Around short vowel /u/ spelling words: run, fun, nut, cut, bug, rug, men, head, could, one high frequency words: could, live, one, then, three grammar & writing: singular and plural nouns (apostrophes with contractions) comprehension skill:character, setting, events 2.3: A Community in Nature ending blends spelling words: lend, send, fast, past, sink, wink, run, bug, of, who high frequency words: eat, no, of, under, who grammar & writing: possessive nouns (apostrophes with possessive nouns) comprehension skill: main topic and key details 2.4: Let's Help consonant digraphs: th, sh, ng spelling words: fish, shop, ship, with, thing, sang, fast, wink, want, call high frequency words: all, call, day, her, want grammar & writing: common and proper nouns (capitalize proper nouns) comprehension skill: character, setting, events 2.5: Follow the Map consonant digraphs: ch, tch, wh, ph spelling words: whip, whale, catch, match, chip, graph, shop, with, many, around high frequency words: around, by, many, place, walk grammar & writing: irregular plural nouns (capital letters and periods) comprehension skill: main topic and key details Unit 3: What can happen over time? 3.1: How do we measure time? long vowel /a/ spelling words: make, take, came, game, gate, late, chin, graph, some, today high frequency words: away, now, some, today, way, why grammar & writing: verbs (commas in a series) comprehension skill:character, setting, plot 3.2: How do plants change as they grow? long vowel /i/ spelling words: like, spike, ride, hide, bike, mine, make, came, water, should high frequency words: green, grow, pretty, should, together, water grammar & writing: present-tense verbs (capitalize and underline titles of plays) comprehension skill:character, setting, plot, sequence 3.3: What is a folktale? soft c and g spelling words: rice, nice, page, age, wedge, ledge, like, ride, from, once high frequency words: any, from, happy, once, so, upon grammar & writing: past and future tense verbs (commas in a series) comprehension skill: character, setting, plot, cause and effect 3.4: How is life different from what it was long ago? long vowel /o/ and long vowel /u/ spelling words: hope, nose, note, rope, cube, cute, nice, ledge, ago, people high frequency words: ago, boy, girl, how, old, people grammar & writing: is , are (commas in dates) comprehension skill: connections within text;compare and contrast 3.5: How do we get our food? variant vowel oo spelling words: book, look, cook, took, wood, hood, nose, cute, buy, done high frequency words: after, buy, done, every, soon, work grammar & writing: contractions with not (apostrophes in contractions) comprehension skill: connections within text;text sequence Unit 4: What animals do you know about? Wyat are they like? 4.1: How do animals' bodies help them? long vowel /a/ a, ai, ay spelling words: mail, chain, play, took, hood, rain, way, day, our, carry high frequency words: about, animal, carry, eight, give, our grammar & writing: was, were (apostrophes with contractions) comprehension skill: character, setting, plot, sequence 4.2: How do animals help each other? long vowel /e/ e, ee, ea spelling words: me, we, keep, play, because, feed, beak, seat, rain, other high frequency words: because, blue, into, or, other, small grammar & writing: has, have (capitalization and end punctuation) comprehension skill: main idea and key details 4.3: How do animals survive in nature? long vowel /o/ o, oa, oe, ow spelling words: low, boat, no, row, oat, toe, we, keep, over, more high frequency words: find, food, more, over, start, warm grammar & writing: go, do (capitalize proper nouns) comprehension skill:main idea and key details 4.4: What insects do you know about? How are they alike and different? long vowel /i/ i, y, igh, ie spelling words: find, night, by, kind, right, pie, boat, no, caught, listen high frequency words: caught, flew, know, laugh, listen, were grammar & writing: see, saw (underline titles of books) comprehension skill: point of view underline titles of books) 4.5: How do people work with animals? long vowel /e/ y, ey spelling words: key, bumpy, puppy, funny, penny, sandy, my, night, write, would high frequency words: found, woman, hard, would, near, write grammar & writing: adverbs that tell when (commas in a series) comprehension skill: connections within text: sequence Unit 5: How can we make sense of the world around us? 5.1: How can we classify and categorize things? r-controlled (bossy r) ar spelling words: cart, barn, arm, art, yarn, harm, happy, key, four, none high frequency words: four, large, none, only, put, round grammar & writing: words that join (capitalize proper nouns: places) comprehension skill: point of view 5.2: What can you see in the sky? r-controlled (bossy r) er, ir, ur, or spelling words: her, bird, fur, fern, dirt, work, barn, arm, climb, through high frequency words: another, climb, full, great, poor, through grammar & writing: adjectives capitalization and end marks comprehension skill:plot, cause and effect 5.3: What inventions do you know about? r-controlled (bossy r) or, ore, oar spelling words: born, corn, core, more, roar, soar, her, dirt, learn, sure high frequency words: began, better, guess, learn, right, sure grammar & writing: adjectives that compare (-er and -est) capitalize days, months, and holidays comprehension skill:connections within text: problem and solution 5.4: What sounds can you hear? How are they made? ou, ow spelling words: cow, town, mouse, how, out, mouth, born, roar, nothing, early high frequency words: color, early, instead, nothing, oh, thought grammar & writing: using a, an, this, that capitalize/underline titles of books comprehension skill:plot, problem and solution 5.5: How do things get built? oi, oy spelling words: spoil, coin, join, joy, toy, boy, town, mouse, build, fall high frequency words: above, build, fall, knew, money, toward grammar & writing: prepositions/prepositional phrases prepositions/prepositional phrases comprehension skill:connections within text: cause and effect Unit 6: How does teamwork help us? 6.1: How can we work together to make our lives better? variant vowel u spelling words: moon, tune, flew, blue, fruit, soup, toy, coin, enough, door high frequency words: answer, brought, busy, door, enough, eyes grammar & writing: pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we, they (capitalize I) comprehension skill: theme 6.2: Who helps you? variant vowel o spelling words: haul, cause, saw, claw, paw, dawn, moon, soup, love, friend high frequency words: brother, father, friend, love, mother, picture grammar & writing: possessive pronoun (capitalize days, months, and holidays) Comprehension Skill: author’s purpose 6.3: How can weather affect us? silent letters wr, kn, gn spelling words: gnat, gnu, know, knife, write, wrong, cause, dawn, been, their high frequency words: been, children, month, question, their, year grammar & writing: special pronouns (anyone, everyone, anything, everything, nothing) commas in dates and letters comprehension skill:plot, cause and effect 6.4: What traditions do you know about? trigraphs 3 letter blends spelling words: strike, spray, splash, split, scrape, three, know, write, your, heard high frequency words: before, front, hear, push, tomorrow, your grammar & writing: subjective and objective pronouns (commas in dates and letters) Comprehension Skill: theme 6.5: Why do we celebrate holidays? air, are, ear spelling words: fair, pair, bear, wear, spare, share, three, splash, favorite, surprise high frequency words: favorite, few, gone, surprise, wonder, young grammar & writing: adverbs that tell how (abbreviations use capitals and periods: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Dr.) comprehension skill:author’s purpose
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