4th Grade Spelling

Course Length

2 Semesters

4th Grade Spelling is a 30-week course of instruction that practices phonics skills, including vowel combinations and sounding out multisyllabic words, as well as incorporation of word parts such as prefixes and suffixes.

Units include review of base and root words, plural nouns, and homophones.

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Overview of Concepts

• MULTISYLLABIC WORDS USING THE AI/AY/AU VOWEL COMBINATION
• MULTISYLLABIC WORDS USING THE EE/EA/EU VOWEL COMBINATION
• MULTISYLLABIC WORDS USING THE IE VOWEL COMBINATION
• MULTISYLLABIC WORDS USING OA/ OW/ OU VOWEL COMBINATION
• MULTISYLLABIC WORDS USING UE/UI VOWEL COMBINATION
• /SH/ SOUND: -SION, -TION
• /SH/ SOUND: CI AND -CH
• REVIEW LIST
• BASE WORDS AND ROOTS WITH THE SUFFIX -MENT
• BASE WORDS AND ROOTS WITH THE SUFFIX -LY
• BASE WORDS AND ROOTS WITH THE PREFIX DIS-
• BASE WORDS AND ROOTS WITH THE PREFIX PRE-
• WORDS WITH DOUBLE CONSONANTS
• PLURAL NOUNS: -S AND -ES ENDINGS
• PLURAL NOUNS: CHANGING THE WORD ENDING
• REVIEW LIST
• HOMOPHONES THAT BEGIN WITH A AND B
• HOMOPHONES THAT BEGIN WITH H THROUGH O
• HOMOPHONES THAT BEGIN WITH T THROUGH W
• WORDS USING THE /SCHWA/ SOUND
• WORDS ENDING WITH -EL AND -AL
• WORDS ENDING IN -LE
• WORDS ENDING IN -URE
• REVIEW LIST
• WORDS ENDING IN -AGE
• WORDS ENDING IN -IT
• WORDS USING EDGE/IDGE
• WORDS WITH R-CONTROLLED VOWELS (/AR/ SOUND)
• WORDS WITH R-CONTROLLED VOWELS (/OR/ SOUND)
• REVIEW LIST