Word Lists for Unit 1
Because of Winn-Dixie
Selection Vocabulary
grand
memorial
peculiar
positive
prideful
recalls
selecting
Lewis and Clark and Me
Selection Vocabulary
docks
migrating
scan
scent
wharf
yearned
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Short vowels VCCV
accident
admire
cannon
contest
custom
engine
fabric
finger
flatten
gutter
happen
intend
magnet
mammal
method
mitten
rally
rascal
soccer
sudden
freight
frighten
grain
height
highway
raisin
right
sigh
sleigh
slight
spray
thigh
tight
trait
weigh
flown
foam
freedom
greet
grown
hollow
indeed
least
rainbow
season
seaweed
shallow
sweet
three
throat
collie
country
empty
finally
hockey
honey
jury
misty
money
movie
prairie
rookie
steady
trolley
valley
curfew
duty
excuse
flute
groove
huge
humor
juice
mood
pupil
scooter
smooth
threw
truth
usual
Spelling Words
Long a and i
bait
braid
detail
dismay
eight
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Selection Vocabulary
badger
bank
bristled
jointed
patched
ruffled
rushes
The Horned Toad Prince
Selection Vocabulary
bargain
favor
lassoed
offended
prairie
riverbed
shrieked
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Long e and o
below
croak
each
eagle
float
Spelling Words
Long e
alley
balcony
breezy
calorie
city
Letters Home from Yosemite
Selection Vocabulary
glacier
impressive
naturalist
preserve
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slopes
species
wilderness
Spelling Words
Long u
afternoon
bruise
confuse
cruel
cruise
Word Lists for Unit 2
What Jo Did
Selection Vocabulary
fouled
hoop
jersey
marveled
rim
speechless
swatted
unbelievable
Coyote School News
Selection Vocabulary
bawling
coyote
dudes
roundup
spurs
Scene Two
Selection Vocabulary
advice
argument
arrangements
descendants
dishonest
script
snag
Horse Heroes
Selection Vocabulary
ambition
infested
landslide
quicksand
resistance
rickety
roamed
vast
Spelling Words
Adding -s and -es
batteries
bunches
companies
costumes
counties
daisies
delays
donkeys
friends
hobbies
holidays
memories
monkeys
months
plays
sandwiches
scratches
supplies
taxes
teammates
men
moose
patios
potatoes
radios
sheep
themselves
tomatoes
tornadoes
videos
forward
garbage
garden
morning
partner
sharp
sport
start
storm
story
strong
Thanksgiving
think
trunk
wharf
wheel
whiskers
whisper
white
young
journal
nourish
purpose
purse
return
turkey
turtle
search
surface
survey
Spelling Words
Irregular Plurals
beliefs
children
cliffs
cuffs
feet
halves
hoofs
leaves
lives
loaves
Spelling Words
Words with ar, or
alarm
apartment
argue
Arkansas
backyard
corner
Florida
force
forest
form
Spelling Words
Digraphs ng, nk, ph, wh
among
belong
blank
blink
chunk
elephant
graph
nephew
shrink
skunk
So You Want to Be President?
Selection Vocabulary
Constitution
howling
humble
politics
responsibility
solemnly
vain
Spelling Words
Words with ear, ir, our, ur
birthday
burrow
courage
courtesy
curtain
early
first
furniture
hamburger
heard
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Word Lists for Unit 3
The Man Who Named the Clouds
Selection Vocabulary
apprentice
atmosphere
chemical
club
essay
manufacturing
pressure
scales
Adelina’s Whales
Selection Vocabulary
biologist
bluff
lagoon
massive
rumbling
tropical
Spelling Words
Adding -ed and -ing
danced
dancing
dried
drying
happened
happening
hurried
hurrying
noticed
noticing
robbed
robbing
slipped
slipping
stopped
stopping
studied
studying
watched
watching
break
by
bye
peace
piece
their
there
they’re
threw
throne
through
thrown
to
too
two
however
mound
mountain
ounce
outdoors
scout
scowl
shout
towel
trout
haircut
highway
homemade
jellyfish
laptop
loudspeaker
shoelace
shortcut
skateboard
sometimes
thunderstorm
touchdown
understand
upstairs
watermelon
brothers’
families’
family’s
girl’s
girls’
hers
its
man’s
men’s
mine
ours
teacher’s
teachers’
theirs
yours
Spelling Words
Homophones
allowed
aloud
beat
beet
brake
How Night Came from the Sea
Selection Vocabulary
brilliant
chorus
coward
gleamed
shimmering
Eye of the Storm
Selection Vocabulary
destruction
expected
forecasts
inland
shatter
surge
Paul Bunyan
Selection Vocabulary
announcement
feature
harness
lumberjacks
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requirements
thaw
unnatural
untamed
Spelling Words
Vowel sound in shout
announce
boundary
browse
couch
coward
drowsy
eyebrow
flowerpot
grouch
hound
Spelling Words
Compound words
anyway
campfire
doorbell
fireworks
flashlight
Spelling Words
Possessives
aunt’s
aunts’
boy’s
boys’
brother’s
Word Lists for Unit 4
The Case of the Gasping Garbage
Selection Vocabulary
analysis
beakers
hollow
identify
lecture
microscope
precise
relentless
Spelling Words
Contractions
aren’t
couldn’t
doesn’t
don’t
hadn’t
haven’t
here’s
it’s
I’ve
shouldn’t
there’s
they’re
wasn’t
we’re
we’ve
when’s
where’s
won’t
wouldn’t
you’re
natural
needle
oval
paddle
pitcher
several
shelter
summer
threaten
together
official
politician
portion
precious
solution
special
suspension
tension
tradition
vacation
fudge
knowledge
liquid
quart
queen
question
quick
quilt
Texas
village
indirect
unaware
uncertain
unfair
unimportant
unlikely
unlisted
unopened
unsolved
unsuspecting
Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
Selection Vocabulary
aquarium
dolphins
enchanted
flexible
glimpses
pulses
surface
Navajo Code Talkers
Selection Vocabulary
advance
developed
exhausting
headquarters
impossible
intense
messages
reveal
Seeker of Knowledge
Selection Vocabulary
ancient
link
scholars
seeker
temple
translate
triumph
uncover
Encyclopedia Brown
Selection Vocabulary
amphibians
crime
exhibit
lizards
reference
reptiles
salamanders
stumped
Spelling Words
Final Syllable Patterns
animal
brother
calendar
caterpillar
chicken
deliver
eleven
frighten
jungle
mumble
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Consonant digraph /sh/
addition
caution
creation
especially
extension
gracious
lotion
mansion
motion
nation
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Consonants / j /, / ks /, and / kw /
bridge
change
equal
excellent
except
excited
exercise
expect
expert
explain
Spelling Words
Prefixes un-, dis-, indisapprove
discontinue
discount
disobey
disorder
disrepair
disrespect
distrust
inability
incomplete
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Word Lists for Unit 5
Smokejumpers
Selection Vocabulary
concentrating
dedication
essential
method
parachute
steer
underbrush
wind
Lost City
Selection Vocabulary
curiosity
glorious
granite
ruins
terraced
thickets
torrent
Cliff Hanger
Selection Vocabulary
coil
descent
foresaw
rappel
ridge
shaft
trekked
void
Antarctic Journal
Selection Vocabulary
anticipation
continent
convergence
depart
forbidding
heaves
icebergs
Moonwalk
Selection Vocabulary
loomed
rille
runt
staggered
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summoning
taunted
trench
trudged
Spelling Words
Multisyllabic words
declaration
disagreeable
disobedient
displacement
gleefully
incorrectly
incredibly
midshipman
misdialed
prerecorded
questionable
reaction
refreshment
repayment
retirement
sportsmanship
unbreakable
undefined
unhappily
watchfully
offer
rabbit
ridden
saddle
shudder
slippers
suffer
tomorrow
worry
written
paragraph
perimeter
periscope
phonics
photograph
saxophone
symphony
telegraph
telephone
telescope
dislocate
disrupt
erupt
export
import
interrupt
locally
locate
location
passport
portable
predict
rupture
transport
verdict
crumble
heal
health
image
imagine
meter
metric
pleasant
please
product
production
relate
relative
triple
triplet
Spelling Words
Words with double consonants
borrow
bottle
bubble
current
different
grasshopper
hobby
lettuce
matter
odd
Spelling Words
Greek word parts
autograph
barometer
biography
diameter
headphones
megaphone
microchip
microphone
microscope
microwave
Spelling Words
Words with Latin roots
abrupt
bankrupt
contradict
dictate
dictionary
Spelling Words
Related words
breath
breathe
compose
composition
crumb
Word Lists for Unit 6
My Brother Martin
Selection Vocabulary
ancestors
avoided
generations
minister
numerous
pulpit
shielding
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path
Selection Vocabulary
boarding school
dormitory
endurance
manual
reservation
society
Spelling Words
Schwa
architect
Canada
cement
difficult
element
forget
fortune
giant
gravel
iron
memory
mystery
normal
notify
privilege
remember
science
stomach
suppose
yesterday
nonstick
nonstop
readjust
rebound
recover
remove
repack
reread
reseal
reunion
needless
painless
pavement
payment
punishment
restless
statement
timeless
tireless
treatment
playful
pollution
powerful
recently
successful
suggestion
tasteful
thoughtful
wisely
yearly
Spelling Words
Prefixes mis-, non-, remisbehavior
misfortune
mishandle
misplace
misprint
misquote
mistreat
nonfiction
nonprofit
nonsense
How Tía Lola Came to Visit Stay
Selection Vocabulary
affords
colonel
glint
lurking
palettes
quaint
resemblance
A Gift from the Heart
Selection Vocabulary
backdrop
graze
drought
ceremonial
shock
abundance
Spelling Words
Suffixes -less, -ment, -ness
amazement
amusement
breathless
countless
enjoyment
fairness
flawless
goodness
greatness
hopeless
Spelling Words
Suffixes -ful, -ly, -ion
actually
careful
certainly
correction
eagerly
extremely
harmful
lonely
monthly
peaceful
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon
Selection Vocabulary
astronauts
capsule
hatch
horizon
lunar
module
quarantine
Spelling Words
Words with silent consonants
autumn
castle
climber
clothes
column
half
Illinois
island
knee
known
knuckles
limb
numb
often
plumbing
rhyme
thumb
unwritten
whistle
wring
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