5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

James Forten

Spelling Words

1. jewel
2. sparkle
3. angle
4. shovel
5. single
6. normal
7. angel
8. legal
9. whistle
10. fossil
11. puzzle
12. bushel
13. mortal
14. gentle
15. level
16. label
17. pedal
18. ankle
19. needle
20. devil

Challenge Words

1. mineral
2. influential
3. vital
4. neutral
5. kernel

Poem of the Week

Homework Machine

The Homework Machine,
oh the Homework Machine,
Most perfect contraption
that’s ever been seen.
Just put in your homework,
then drop in a dime,
Snap on the switch,
and in ten seconds time,
Your homework comes out,
quick and clean as can be.
Here it is--- “nine plus four?”
and the answer is “three.”
Three?
Oh me . . .
I guess it’s not as perfect
As I thought it would be.

by Shel Silverstein

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Katie's Trunk

Spelling Words

1. equal
2. parlor
3. collect
4. closet
5. perhaps
6. wedding
7. rapid
8. value
9. arrive
10. behave
11. shoulder
12. novel
13. tulip
14. sorrow
15. vanish
16. essay
17. publish
18. aware
19. subject
20. prefer

Challenge Words

1. device
2. skittish
3. logic
4. sincere
5. nuisance

Poem of the Week

Snowball

I made myself a snowball
As perfect as could be.
I thought I’d keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head.
Then last night it ran away,
But first--it wet the bed.

by Shel Silverstein

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Spelling Words

1. theater
2. actor
3. mirror
4. powder
5. humor
6. anger
7. banner
8. pillar
9. major
10. thunder
11. flavor
12. finger
13. mayor
14. polar
15. clover
16. burglar
17. tractor
18. matter
19. lunar
20. quarter

Challenge Words

1. oyster
2. clamor
3. tremor
4. scholar
5. chamber

Poem of the Week

Come Skating

They said come skating;
They said it’s so nice.
They said come skating;
I’d done it twice.
They said come skating;
It sounded nice. . . .
I wore roller--
They meant ice.

by Shel Silverstein

Poem of the Week

Wendy in Winter

No wonder Wendy’s coat blew off.
She didn’t have it zipped
And since she didn’t watch for slush,
No wonder Wendy slipped.
No wonder Wendy froze her feet
Although her boots were lined,
Because when Wendy left for school,
She left her boots behind.
And since she didn’t dodge the ice
that sagged the apple bough,
No wonder Wendy’s hatless head
Has seven stitches now.

By: Kay Starbird

5th Grade Spelling List

Give It All You've Got!
Spelling Review

Spelling Words

1. weekend
2. hawk
3. flair
4. stir
5. first aid
6. halt
7. royal
8. carve
9. worth
10. hurl
11. up-to-date
12. noisy
13. soar
14. barge
15. steer
16. wildlife
17. coward
18. gorge
19. return
20. smear
21. brother-in-law
22. thousand
23. tore
24. early
25. pearl
26. test tube
27. launch
28. snare
29. perch
30. wheelchair

Challenge Words

1. extraordinary
2. announce
3. loiter
4. marvelous
5. yearn
6. self-assured
7. somersault
8. ordinary
9. emergency
10. dreary

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Focus on Poetry

Spelling Words

1. cord
2. chord
3. pray
4. prey
5. seam
6. seem
7. sole
8. soul
9. piece
10. peace
11. role
12. roll
13. peel
14. peal
15. shone
16. shown
17. pain
18. pane
19. pole
20. poll

Challenge Words

1. aisle
2. isle
3. rein
4. reign

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Mae Jemison

Spelling Words

1. smear
2. germ
3. return
4. peer
5. stir
6. squirm
7. nerve
8. early
9. worth
10. pier
11. thirst
12. burnt
13. rear
14. term
15. steer
16. pearl
17. squirt
18. perch
19. hurl
20. worse

Challenge Words

1. interpret
2. yearn
3. emergency
4. dreary
5. career

Poem of the Week

Forgetful Paul Revere

Was it two if by land
And one if by sea?
Or one if by land
And none if by sea?
Or none if by land . . .
Or was it three?
My memory’s not
What it used to be,
And it’s getting so foggy
I hardly can see,
And this hard, cold saddle
Is killing me---
Oh,  what a ride
This is gonna be.

Shel Silverstein

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

La Bamba

Spelling Words

1. hawk
2. claw
3. bald
4. tower
5. halt
6. prowl
7. loyal
8. pause
9. moist
10. ounce
11. launch
12. royal
13. scowl
14. haunt
15. noisy
16. coward
17. fawn
18. thousand
19. drown
20. fault

Challenge Words

1. announce
2. poise
3. loiter
4. somersault
5. awkward

Poem of the Week

from:  Paul Revere’s Ride

So listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British march
By  land or sea from the town tonight,
Hang a  lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,---
One if by land and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and arm.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

Spelling Words

1. basketball
2. wheelchair
3. cheerleader
4. newscast
5. weekend
6. everybody
7. up-to-date
8. grandparent
9. first aid
10. wildlife
11. highway
12. daytime
13. whoever
14. test tube
15. turnpike
16. shipyard
17. homemade
18. household
19. salesperson
20. brother-in-law

Challenge Words

1. extraordinary
2. self-assured
3. quick-witted
4. limelight
5. junior high school

Poem of the Week

Lazy Witch

Lazy witch,
What’s wrong with you?
    Get up and stir your magic brew.
    Here’s candlelight to chase the gloom.
    Jump up and mount your flying broom
    And muster up your charms and spells
    And wicked grins and piercing yells.
    It’s Halloween!  There’s work to do!
Lazy witch,
What’s wrong with you?

Poem of the Week

Toltecs

The Toltecs were wise
They conversed
with their own hearts

They played their drums
They were singers
They made songs
They guarded their songs in their memories

The Toltecs were wise
They conversed
with their own hearts.

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Focus on Tall Tales

Spelling Words

1. steal
2. stealth
3. cave
4. cavity
5. wise
6. wisdom
7. deal
8. dealt
9. athlete
10. athletic
11. crime
12. criminal
13. breathe
14. breath
15. wild
16. wilderness
17. shade
18. shadow
19. revise
20. revision

Challenge Words

1. volcano
2. volcanic
3. cycle
4. bicycle

Poem of the Week

12 October

From where I stand now
    the world is flat
    flat out flat,
    no end to that.

Where my eyes go the land moves out.
    How is it then
    five hundred years ago (about)
    Columbus found
    that far beyond flat on flat
    the world was round?

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Nature's Fury
Spelling Review

Spelling Words

1. slept
2. split
3. staff
4. fade
5. praise
6. slope
7. claim
8. stroll
9. mood
10. beast
11. crush
12. fond
13. dwell
14. strike
15. clue
16. boast
17. flute
18. sway
19. cruise
20. mild
21. grasp
22. swift
23. bunk
24. slight
25. thrown
26. stole
27. fleet
28. dew
29. youth
30. thigh

Challenge Words

1. frantic
2. trek
3. cease
4. molten
5. pursuit
6. rustic
7. describe
8. campaign
9. subdue
10. reproach

Poem of the Week

Christopher Columbus

There are lots of strange things that discoverers do
But his was the strangest, I swear.
He discovered our country in One Four Nine Two
By thinking it couldn’t be there.

He paid no attention to protest or squall,
This obstinate son of the mast,
And so in the end, he discovered us all,
Remarking, “Here’s India, at last!”

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Volcanoes

Spelling Words

1. thrown
2. stole
3. clue
4. dew
5. choose
6. rule
7. boast
8. cruise
9. stroll
10. route
11. mood
12. loaf
13. growth
14. youth
15. slope
16. bruise
17. loose
18. rude
19. flow
20. flute

Challenge Words

1. subdue
2. pursuit
3. molten
4. reproach
5. presume

Poem of the Week

Crab Dance

Play moonlight
and the red crabs dance
their scuttle-foot dance
on the mud-packed beach

Play moonlight
and the red crabs dance
their sideways dance
to the soft-sea beat

Play moonlight
and the red crabs dance
their bulb-eye dance
their last crab dance

        Grace Nichols

5th Grade Spelling

1. speech
2. claim
3. strike
4. stray
5. fade
6. sign
7. leaf
8. thigh
9. thief
10. height
11. mild
12. waist
13. sway
14. beast
15. stain
16. fleet
17. stride
18. praise
19. slight
20. niece Challenge
campaign
describe
cease
sacrifice
plight

Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. enough
2. caught
3. brought
4. thought
5. every
6. ninety
7. their
8. they're
9. there
10. there's
11. know
12. knew
13. o'clock
14. we're
15. people

Challenge Words

1. decent
2. stationery
3. stationary
4. correspond
5. reversible

Poem of the Week

Lighthouse

This giant white
  Land candle burns
The edges of
  The fog by turns.

The lonely keeper
  Of the flame
Illuminates
  One picture frame.

A ship returning
  Welcome light
And slipping safely
  Through the night.

Poem of the Week

Jellyfish Stew

Jellyfish stew, I’m loony for you,
I dearly adore you,
Oh truly I do,
you’re creepy to see,
revolting to chew
you slide down inside
with a hullabaloo.

You’re soggy, you’re smelly,
you taste like shampoo,
you bog down my belly
with oodles of goo,
yet I would glue noodles
and prunes to my shoe,
for one oozy spoonful
of jellyfish stew.

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Earthquake Terror

Spelling Words

1. bunk
2. staff
3. dock
4. slept
5. mist
6. bunch
7. swift
8. stuck
9. breath
10. tough
11. fond
12. crush
13. grasp
14. dwell
15. fund
16. ditch
17. split
18. swept
19. deaf
20. rough

Challenge Words

1. trek
2. frantic
3. summit
4. rustic
5. mascot

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Nature: Friend and Foe
Spelling Review

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. halibut
2. photograph
3. rhyme
4. drought
5. debt
6. edition
7. threaten
8. guarantee
9. heir
10. knoll

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Skylark

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. drought
2. knoll
3. heir
4. debt
5. wrestle

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Person to Person
Reading-Writing Workshop

Spelling Words

1. a lot
2. because
3. school
4. its
5. it's
6. tonight
7. might
8. right
9. write
10. again
11. to
12. too
13. two
14. they
15. that's

Challenge Words

1. opposite
2. scenery
3. questionnaire
4. excellence
5. pennant

5th Grade Spelling List

1. heard

2. your

3. you're

4. field

5. buy

6. friend

7. guess

8. cousin

9. build

10. family 

11. can't

12. cannot

13. didn't

14. haven't

15. don't

Challenge

1. truly

2. benefited

3. height

4. believe

5. received

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Wildfires

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. vaccine
2. quarantine
3. guarantee
4. threaten
5. rhyme

4th Grade Spelling List

There is no spelling list for this week due to OAKS testing for 4th graders during language arts time.

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

My Side of the Mountain

Spelling Words

1. fashionable
2. comfortable
3. different
4. suitable
5. merchant
6. profitable
7. student
8. possible
9. resident
10. terrible
11. absent
12. vacant
13. servant
14. valuable
15. accident
16. horrible
17. honorable
18. reasonable
19. remarkable
20. laughable

Challenge Words

1. excellent
2. prominent
3. extravagant
4. durable
5. reversible

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Salmon Summer

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. interview
2. article
3. halibut
4. edition
5. photograph

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

My Side of the Mountain

Spelling Words

1. fashionable
2. comfortable
3. different
4. suitable
5. merchant
6. profitable
7. student
8. possible
9. resident
10. terrible
11. absent
12. vacant
13. servant
14. valuable
15. accident
16. horrible
17. honorable
18. reasonable
19. remarkable
20. laughable

Challenge Words

1. excellent
2. prominent
3. extravagant
4. durable
5. reversible

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Lou Gehrig

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. alert
2. license
3. select
4. radar
5. feature

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

The Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home

Spelling Words

1. dangerous
2. history
3. vacation
4. popular
5. favorite
6. memory
7. personal
8. educate
9. regular
10. continue
11. potato
12. natural
13. sensitive
14. energy
15. emotion
16. period
17. property
18. condition
19. imagine
20. attention

Challenge Words

1. juvenile
2. astonish
3. ovation
4. amateur
5. obvious

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Heroes
Reading-Writing Workshop

Spelling Words

1. brought
2. enough
3. buy
4. guess
5. Saturday
6. January
7. February
8. favorite
9. lying
10. tying
11. around
12. swimming
13. heard
14. also
15. tried

Challenge Words

1. choose
2. chose
3. loose
4. lose
5. millimeter

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Grizzly Bear Family Book

Spelling Words

1. propose
2. convince
3. concern
4. enforce
5. compare
6. excuse
7. conduct
8. preserve
9. contain
10. excite
11. extend
12. prefix
13. engage
14. pronoun
15. consist
16. enclose
17. consent
18. proverb
19. complete
20. exchange

Challenge Words

1. enactment
2. procedure
3. confront
4. preamble
5. concise

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Gloria Estefan

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. iciest
2. hazier
3. breezier
4. companies
5. qualities

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Focus on Autobiographies

Spelling Words

1. fact
2. factual
3. locate
4. location
5. perfect
6. perfection
7. subtract
8. subtraction
9. elect
10. election
11. populate
12. population
13. select
14. selection
15. habit
16. habitual
17. decorate
18. decoration
19. punctuate
20. punctuation

Challenge Words

1. exaggerate
2. exaggeration
3. participate
4. participation

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. unusual
2. rearrange
3. appointment
4. discontinue
5. resourceful

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Grizzly Bear Family Book

Spelling Words

1. propose
2. convince
3. concern
4. enforce
5. compare
6. excuse
7. conduct
8. preserve
9. contain
10. excite
11. extend
12. prefix
13. engage
14. pronoun
15. consist
16. enclose
17. consent
18. proverb
19. complete
20. exchange

Challenge Words

1. enactment
2. procedure
3. confront
4. preamble
5. concise

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Sing to the Stars

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. method
2. concert
3. narrate
4. abrupt
5. challenge

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Elena

Spelling Words

1. liberties
2. victories
3. countries
4. spied
5. enemies
6. armies
7. scariest
8. dirtier
9. happiness
10. abilities
11. pitied
12. ladies
13. busier
14. duties
15. lilies
16. worthiness
17. tiniest
18. emptiness
19. replies
20. dizziness

Challenge Words

1. unified
2. levied
3. colonies
4. loveliest
5. strategies

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

The Last Dragon

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. fleece
2. fragrance
3. homage
4. fringe
5. excellence

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Black Cowboy, Wild Horses

Spelling Words

1. mountain
2. treasure
3. culture
4. fountain
5. creature
6. captain
7. future
8. adventure
9. moisture
10. surgeon
11. lecture
12. curtain
13. pasture
14. measure
15. vulture
16. feature
17. furniture
18. pleasure
19. mixture
20. luncheon

Challenge Words

1. departure
2. leisure
3. architecture
4. texture
5. villain

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Marven of the Great North Woods

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. fiery
2. envy
3. mercy
4. chimney
5. imaginary

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Pioneer Girl

Spelling Words

1. dozen
2. voyage
3. forbid
4. native
5. language
6. destroy
7. notice
8. distance
9. carrot
10. knowledge
11. captive
12. spinach
13. solid
14. justice
15. ashamed
16. program
17. message
18. respond
19. service
20. relative

Challenge Words

1. adapt
2. discourage
3. cooperative
4. apprentice
5. somber

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

My Name Is María Isabel

Spelling Words

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

Challenge Words

1. aquatic
2. comic
3. tropical
4. speckled
5. peculiar

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

A Boy Called Slow

Spelling Words

1. unable
2. discover
3. report
4. disaster
5. unaware
6. remind
7. televise
8. television
9. inspect
10. inspection
11. react
12. reaction
13. tense
14. tension
15. correct
16. correction
17. promote
18. promotion
19. express
20. expression

Challenge Words

1. inquiry
2. unnecessary
3. responsible
4. except
5. exception

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

That's Amazing!
Spelling Review

Spelling Words

1. railroad
2. homesick
3. anything
4. seat belt
5. battle
6. beggar
7. doctor
8. smelling
9. pleasing
10. dimmed
11. airport
12. understand
13. ninetynine
14. final
15. trouble
16. towel
17. medal
18. striped
19. skipped
20. checking
21. all right
22. makebelieve
23. whenever
24. proper
25. uncle
26. weather
27. raced
28. snapping
29. hiking
30. fainted

Challenge Words

1. handkerchief
2. motorcycle
3. decimal
4. scrubbed
5. striving
6. postscript
7. shoulder
8. cancel
9. breathing
10. urged

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Spelling Words

1. dreadful
2. enjoyment
3. safely
4. watchful
5. speechless
6. paleness
7. breathless
8. government
9. cheerful
10. actively
11. closeness
12. lately
13. goodness
14. retirement
15. forgetful
16. basement
17. softness
18. delightful
19. settlement
20. countless

Challenge Words

1. suspenseful
2. suspiciously
3. defenseless
4. seriousness
5. contentment

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Heat Wave!

Spelling Words

1. dancing
2. skipped
3. hiking
4. flipped
5. snapping
6. raced
7. landed
8. pleasing
9. checking
10. dared
11. dimmed
12. rubbing
13. striped
14. wasting
15. traced
16. stripped
17. tanning
18. smelling
19. phoning
20. fainted

Challenge Words

1. breathing
2. tiring
3. urged
4. scrubbed
5. striving

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers

Spelling Words

1. covered
2. directing
3. bragging
4. amusing
5. offered
6. planned
7. rising
8. deserved
9. visiting
10. mixed
11. swimming
12. sheltered
13. resulting
14. spotted
15. suffering
16. arrested
17. squeezing
18. ordered
19. decided
20. hitting

Challenge Words

1. rehearsing
2. shredded
3. anticipated
4. scalloped
5. entertaining

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Focus on Plays

Spelling Words

1. heard
2. herd
3. loan
4. lone
5. flea
6. flee
7. hall
8. haul
9. forth
10. fourth
11. heal
12. heel
13. steak
14. stake
15. pare
16. pear
17. berry
18. bury
19. groan
20. grown

Challenge Words

1. cereal
2. serial
3. ceiling
4. sealing

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Mariah Keeps Cool

Spelling Words

1. district
2. address
3. complain
4. explain
5. improve
6. farther
7. simply
8. hundred
9. although
10. laughter
11. mischief
12. complex
13. partner
14. orphan
15. constant
16. dolphin
17. employ
18. sandwich
19. monster
20. orchard

Challenge Words

1. control
2. abstain
3. conscience
4. function
5. extreme