Unit 19 R controlled trigraphs - ear, air, are
Spelling: airplane, beware, clear, repair, disappear, compare, share, beard, disrepair, appear
Vocabulary: distract, retract, extract, attract, subtract (tract means to pull away or drag)
Challenge: traction, despair
Unit 18 R controlled - ur, ir, er, ear
Spelling: stirred, early, disturb, answer, heard, earth, learned, different, survive, purpose
Vocabulary: predator, horizontal, vertical, currently, average
Challenge: circulate, social
Unit 17 R controlled - er, or
Spelling: doctor, walker, actor, banker, biker, sailor, plumber, elevator, computer, teacher
Vocabulary: counselor, career, soldier, pioneer, engineer
Challenge: narrator, ancestors
Unit 16 R controlled - ar, or, ore
Spelling: parking, large, before, sports, charge, morning, chore, apartment, chart, organize
Vocabulary: council, category, landmark, citizen, mayor
Challenge: architect, coordinate
Unit 15 au/aw Vowel Teams
Spelling: brought, bought, taught, caught, awesome, awful, sauce, because, fault, thought
Vocabulary: wealthy, success, launched, audience, recipe
Challenge: literacy, generous
Unit 14 ou/ow Vowel Teams
Spelling: frown, mouth, crowd, sound, aloud, bounce, grouchy, crown, allowed, ground
Vocabulary: doubt, willpower, announced, comedy, improvise
Challenge: accompany, composed
Unit 13 y to i, sounds of "y"
Spelling: city, cities, study, studied, studying, copy, copied, reply, replying, replied
Vocabulary: chilly, blustery, cheery, fluffy, cozy
Challenge: migrate, forecast
Unit 12 ew, oo, o_e, ough
Spelling: knew, grew, smooth, viewed, choose, move, lose, chew, through, group
Vocabulary: groom, soothing, spoof, natural, proof
Challenge: species, traits
Unit 11 Long "I" spelled igh & Long "O" spelled oa, ow
Spelling: write, right, bright, coast, goal, shadows, midnight, unknown, glow, slight
Vocabulary: coal, design, boasted, hollow, narrow
Challenge: experiment, results
Unit 10 Consonant doubling 1-1-1 rule; Suffixes -ed, -ing (Week of November 3)
Spelling: grinned, peeking, winked, gripped, slogging, sloping, beginning, gulped, stunning, spotted
Vocabulary: gazing, skimming, brimming, moping, snagged
Challenge: surface, scheming
1-1-1 Rule - If a word has 1 syllable, 1 vowel, 1 consonant following the vowel, then we need to double the consonant to add the suffix.
Unit 9 Vowel Teams ai, ay; Prefix un-(Week of October 27)
Spelling: plain, plane, painting, Sunday, afraid, delay, chain, maybe, explained, trail
Vocabulary: unsafe, unequal, uneasy, unfair, unwilling
Challenge: democracy and citizen
Unit 8 Vowel Teams ee, ea; Magic E: e_e; Prefix mis- (Week of October 20)
Spelling: compete, scene, feeling, teeth, sunscreen, leave, please, misreading, mistreat, reason
Vocabulary: mistake, misplaced, misbehaving, mischief, mislead
Challenge: misdirect, conceal
Unit 7 Soft g/c; drop e rule; Suffix: ing, ic (Week of October 13)
Spelling: age, cage, face, place, placing, race, racing, decide, space, magic
Vocabulary: volcanic, gigantic, tragic, toxic, frantic
Challenge: scientific, historic
Unit 6 Homophones, Magic E, Suffix -ed, Prefix in- (Week of October 6)
Spelling: stove, close, closed, hole, whole, clothes, rude, invited, impress, excused
Vocabulary: included, inhale, inspired, inflate, infer
Challenge: increase, inquire
Unit 5 Multiple Meaning Words; Magic E (Week of Sept 29)
Spelling: state, life, wave, delete, polite, fade, escape, alive, alike, complete
Vocabulary: theme, describe, concrete, locate, revise
Challenge: demonstrate, strive
Unit 4 Long Vowels; Suffix -ly, Open Syllables
Spelling: even, talent, equally, product, legally, panic, honest, focus, finally, totally
Vocabulary: locally, frequently, profit, model, slogan
Challenge: original, timid
Unit 3 o (sounds like u); Suffixes s, es
Spelling: months, across, nothing, lunches, front, flosses, along, tons, among, crushes
Vocabulary: exist, extinct, fossils, cause, effect
Challenge: hunch, evidence
Unit 2 Digraphs/Schwa
Spelling: win, when, think, which, shock, gallon, hundred, pumpkin, distant, dolphin
Vocabulary: blush, gasp, shrug, grasp, stretch
Challenge: hectic, accomplish
Unit 1 Short Vowels/Closed Syllables
Spelling: felt, drop, grump, camp, drink, upset, napkin, insult, contest, until
Vocabulary: stump, chest, stamp, brush, trip
Challenge: bear, log
