4th Grade Weekly Spelling Lists: Weeks 1-9

Cut along the line and send the list home on Monday for practice. On Friday, read each word aloud, use it in a sentence and have students write it on a numbered line of the test. Keep the tests to see which spelling patterns need another week.

10 pages: a cover and 9 printable pages. Week 1: Short vowels, two syllables: absent, blanket, contest, dentist, pumpkin, problem, traffic, plastic, sandwich, publish. Week 2: Long vowels, two syllables: obey, remain, explain, display, sneaky, degree, reason, decide, polite, compose. Week 3: Vowel teams in longer words: obtain, maintain, railroad, treatment, feature, meanwhile, approach, oatmeal, pillow, window. Week 4: Vowel sounds ou, ow, oi and oy: thousand, county, pronounce, coward, drowsy, eyebrow, boiling, moisture, royalty, annoyed. Week 5: R-controlled, longer words: partner, harvest, border, orbit, mermaid, service, thirteen, furnace, turkey, certain. Week 6: Words with au, aw and ough: auction, faucet, sausage, awkward, lawyer, drawer, thought, bought, brought, fought. Week 7: Homophones: aloud, allowed, weather, whether, threw, through, waist, waste, pause, paws. Week 8: Adding -ed, -ing: long words: omitted, permitted, referred, preferred, forgetting, upsetting, deciding, arriving, replied, supplying. Week 9: Plurals with -s and -es: heroes, potatoes, tomatoes, echoes, pianos, radios, volcanoes, zeros, studios, cliffs.

Yes. We made it for 4th 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, homophones, prefixes and suffixes in weeks 1 to 12, more suffixes, Greek and Latin roots and word endings in weeks 13 to 24, then subject area words, ei and ie, double consonants and three-syllable words in weeks 25 to 36.

Yes. Every weekly page has the take-home list of 10 4th 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.