Word Study – Spelling Unit 6 – Grade 5
(January 4 - 15)
Each spelling list lasts two weeks.
High Frequency Words
1. accept
2. bought
3. brought
4. busy
5. except
6. electricity
7. English
8. guide
9. history
10.thought
11.threw
12.through
Patterned Words
If you know how to spell
the “-ound” can you work
out …?
Challenge Words
1. semifinal
2. supermarket
3. superpower
bound, found, ground,
pound, round, sound,
*prefixes are groups of letters before a base word or root
prefix semi – means half or partly (semicircle, semicolon, semiformal, semitrailer)
prefix super – means really big, above or beyond (supercluster, superglue, superhero, superhighway, superman,)
For each two-week period, students will complete many of the following tasks in class:
Meet the Words
 share information about the features of the words (plurals, double consonants, silent
letters, etc. , definitions and the relationships among words)
Making Words/Patterned Words
 arrange a set of letters to create new words
 sort for related words and look for patterns
 study prefixes, root words, and suffixes related to the challenge words
Linkage
 find as many words as you can from a linkage strip (words from the lesson and other
additional words typed together without any spaces)
Boggle
 find as many words in sequences of adjacent letters as you can (adapted from the
word game designed by Allan Turoff)
Word Smart
 teacher poses a question and the students search for answers among their 12 high
frequency word cards
Use Spellingcity.com at home for more practice. The link provided on the website, goes
directly to our spelling words.