5th Grade Spelling Words List: Full Year

Use it to plan the year, or send it home at the start of the year so families can see every list. The weekly spelling list packs have the same words, with a take-home list and a test page for each week.

3 pages. Weeks 1 to 12: vowels in two-syllable words, vowel teams in longer words, r-controlled, longer words, silent letters, double consonants, doubling before a suffix, prefixes that mean not or wrong, prefixes inter-, trans-, super-, number prefixes uni-, bi-, tri-, suffixes -able and -ible, suffixes -ant and -ent, suffixes -ance and -ence. Weeks 13 to 24: suffixes -ous, -ious and -eous, suffixes -tion, -sion and -cian, endings -ure and -ture, suffixes -ize, -ify and -en, Greek roots bio, geo, therm, scope, Latin roots spect, dict, script, Latin roots vis, aqu and man, homophones, unstressed vowel sounds, endings -ary, -ery and -ory, endings -ic and -ical, endings -age, -ege and -ige. Weeks 25 to 36: unusual plurals, words with ei and ie, words with ph, ch and gh, easily confused words, compound and hyphenated words, math words, science words, social studies words, tricky words, more tricky words, words from other languages, multisyllabic review.

Yes. We made it for 5th Grade spelling lists, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

10 words a week for 36 weeks, a full school year.

One pattern a week: vowel patterns in longer words, silent letters, prefixes and suffixes in weeks 1 to 12, Greek and Latin roots, homophones and unstressed vowels in weeks 13 to 24, then unusual plurals, easily confused words, subject area words and words from other languages in weeks 25 to 36.

Yes. Every weekly page has the take-home list of 10 5th grade words at the top and a numbered spelling test below a cut line, ready for Friday.

Send the list home on Monday, practice the pattern in class during the week, and give the test on Friday. Keep a few minutes each day for reading and writing the words in sentences.