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5th Grade Spelling

Fifth Grade
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Week 1
Bonus Words:  

1. army
2. starve
3. scar
4. garbage
5. argue
6. apartment
7. guitar
8. Arkansas
9. hamburger
10. return
11. purposes
12. surface
13. curl
14. purse
15. furniture
16. courage
17. journal
18. courtesy
19. nourish

20. journey

Phonics Focus: Spelling words with ar
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Week 2
Bonus Words: 

1. heavy
2. ahead
3. measure
4. already
5. meadow
6. jealous
7. weapon
8. said
9. again
10. against
11. degree
12. cheese
13. succeed
14. speech
15. breeze
16. goalie
17. piece
18. believe
19. thief

20. chief

Phonics Focus: Spelling words with short and long e
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Week 3
Bonus Words: 

1. choice
2. noisy
3. spoil
4. poison
5. Illinois
6. loyal
7. destroy
8. annoy
9. oyster
10.  voyage
11. powder
12. towel
13. downtown
14. growl
15. drown
16. amount
17. our
18. outside
19. couch

20. surround

Phonics Focus: Spelling vowel sounds in boy and out
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Week 4
Bonus Words: 

1. brain
2. plain
3. claim
4. complain
5. favorite
6. stranger
7. aliens
8. vacation
9. sidewalk
10. slide
11. slope
12. survive
13. crime
14. bowling
15. owner
16. arrow
17. snowball
18. whole
19. globe

20. antelope

Phonics Focus: Spelling Words with long vowels o, a, and i
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Week 5
Bonus Words: 

1. choose
2. school
3. broom
4. scoop
5. booth
6. threw
7. crew
8. drew
9. jewel
10. future
11. music
12. usually
13. humor
14. Utah
15. taught
16. naughty
17. daughter
18. laundry
19. sausage

20. launch

Phonics Focus: Spelling vowel sounds in rule, use, and off
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Week 6
Bonus Words: 

1. major
2. subject
3. junior
4. judge
5. lodge
6. ridge
7. ledge
8. legend
9. general
10. Georgia
11. character
12. chorus
13. orchestra
14. mechanic
15. chord
16. raccoon
17. occur
18. accurate
19. occasion

20. accuse

Phonics Focus: Spelling words with consonant sounds /j/ and /k/
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Week 7
Bonus Words: 

1. knowledge
2. know
3. knew
4. knuckle
5. knitting
6. knapsack
7. numb
8. bomb
9. tomb
10. climber
11. plumbing
12. ghost
13. spaghetti
14. aghast
15. glisten
16. listening
17. fasten
18. hustle
19. mistletoe
20. whistle

Phonics Focus: Spelling Words with kn, mb, gh, st
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Week 8
Bonus Words: 

1. mailbox
2. nearby
3. into
4. sometimes
5. sunset
6. anything
7. daylight
8. something
9. haircut
10. notebook
11. earthquake
12. hideout
13. textbook
14. volleyball
15. horseback
16. handwriting
17. kickstand
18. rattlesnake
19. fireplace

20. housework

Focus: Spelling Compound Words 1
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Week 9
Bonus Words:

1. handle
2. perhaps
3. anger
4. accident
5. adventure
6. before
7. because
8. decided
9. pretend
10. belong
11. possible
12. solve
13. problem
14. lobster
15. python
16. swung
17. jungle
18. shuttle
19. blood

20. flood

Phonics Focus: Spelling short vowels a, i, o, and u
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Week 10
Bonus Words: 

1. discovered
2. disorder
3. disappoint
4. disobey
5. disapprove
6. unsure
7. unclear
8. unable
9. unbuckled
10. unlimited
11. midweek
12. midyear
13. midway
14. midnight
15. midstream
16. pretest
17. preschool
18. precook
19. prepaid

20. prerecorded

Phonics Focus: Spelling prefixes dis-, un-, mid-, and pre-
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Week 11
Bonus Words: 

1. months
2. friends
3. grades
4. cowboys
5. valleys
6. donkeys
7. missiles
8. costumes
9. pictures
10. morning
11. matches
12. bushes
13. benches
14. speeches
15. passes
16. kisses
17. dresses
18. batteries
19. companies

20. centuries

Focus: Adding -s and -es
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Week 12
Bonus Words: 

1. radios
2. videos
3. pianos
4. patios
5. banjos
6. heroes
7. potatoes
8. echoes
9. tornadoes
10. tomatoes
11. cuffs
12. cliffs
13. beliefs
14. hoofs
15. roofs
16. themselves
17. lives
18. leaves
19. loaves

20. halves

Focus: Spelling Irregular Plurals
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Week 13
Bonus Words: 

1. can't
2. wouldn't
3. don't
4. weren't
5. I'm
6. I'll
7. let's
8. that's
9. there's
10. what's
11. she's
12. you're
13. they're
14. who's
15. we're
16. I've
17. you've
18. should've
19. could've

20. we've

Focus: Contractions
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Week 14
Bonus Words: 

1. Houston
2. Alaska
3. Kentucky
4. Little Rock
5. Duluth
6. Arizona
7. Miami
8. Indiana
9. Alabama
10. South Carolina
11. Baltimore
12. Detroit
13. Los Angeles
14. Hawaii
15. Memphis
16. Virginia
17. Oregon
18. Pittsburgh
19. Texas

20. Florida

Focus: Capitalization
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Week 15
Bonus Words: 

1. friend's
2. today's
3. Dad's
4. Mom's
5. sister's
6. sisters'
7. child's
8. children's
9. person's
10. people's
11. grandmother's
12. grandfather's
13. uncle's
14. uncles'
15. doctor's
16. doctors'
17. cousin's
18. cousins'
19. woman's

20. women's

Spelling Possessives
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Week 16
Bonus Words:

1. write
2. right
3. buy
4. by
5. to
6. too
7. board
8. bored
9. it's
10. its
11. threw
12. through
13. knead
14. need
15. mane
16. main
17. past
18. passed
19. allowed

20. aloud

Spelling Homophones
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Week 17
Bonus Words: 

1. answer
2. minute
3. happened
4. library
5. opened
6. length
7. getting
8. when
9. finished
10. maybe
11. mystery
12. dentist
13. actually
14. width
15. caramel
16. pumpkin
17. quarter
18. sandwich
19. grabbed

20. frightening

Spelling Including All the Letters
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Week 18
Bonus Words: 

1. followed
2. following
3. lighter
4. lightest
5. tried
6. trying
7. cuter
8. cutest
9. excited
10. exciting
11. amused
12. amusing
13. bigger
14. biggest
15. wrapped
16. wrapping
17. earlier
18. earliest
19. easier

20. easiest

Spelling Adding -ed, -er, -est, and -ing
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Week 19
Bonus Words: 

1. manager
2. president
3. different
4. terrible
5. finally
6. really
7. supposed
8. probably
9. California
10. especially
11. balance
12. constant
13. innocent
14. realize
15. opportunity
16. pollute
17. prisoner
18. celebrate
19. grocery

20. elevator

Phonics Focus: Vowels with No Sound Clue
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Week 20
Bonus Words: 

1. either
2. another
3. computer
4. calendar
5. solar
6. particular
7. evil
8. fossil
9. civil
10. cancel
11. label
12. channel
13. quarrel
14. eaten
15. frozen
16. siren
17. curtain
18. captain
19. fountain

20. bargain

Phonics Focus: Spelling Vowels in Final Syllables
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Week 21
Bonus Words: 

1. strong
2. nothing
3. everything
4. clothing
5. among
6. sting
7. hangar
8. lightning
9. blank
10. trunk
11. thanksgiving
12. chipmunk
13. shrink
14. they
15. then
16. north
17. there
18. without
19. though

20. thought

Spelling Words with ng, nk, th, and ch
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Week 22
Bonus Words: 

1. comfortable
2. reasonable
3. washable
4. agreeable
5. valuable
6. responsible
7. convertible
8. flexible
9. sensible
10. reversible
11. contestant
12. defiant
13. observant
14. servant
15. occupant
16. student
17. urgent
18. confident
19. resident

20.  opponent

Spelling Suffixes -able, -ible, -ant, -ent
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Week 23
Bonus Words: 

1. famous
2. nervous
3. joyous
4. marvelous
5. humorous
6. mysterious
7. dangerous
8. selection
9. instruction
10. attraction
11. rejection
12. education
13. inflation
14. decoration
15. information
16. organization
17. conversation
18. imagination
19. admiration

20. preparation

Spelling Suffixes -ous, -ation, and -ion,
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Week 24
Bonus Words: 

1. bookshelf
2. someone
3. everyone
4. everybody
5. nowhere
6. wristwatch
7. everyone
8. blindfold
9. typewriter
10. grandparent
11. home run
12. each other
13. hot dog
14. all right
15. high school
16. pen pal
17. living room
18. peanut butter
19. no one

20. first aid

Spelling Compound Words 2
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Week 25
Bonus Words: 

1. please
2. pleasant
3. cloth
4. clothes
5. sign
6. signature
7. dream
8. dreamt
9. part
10. partial
11. moist
12. moisten
13. breathe
14. breath
15. create
16. creature
17. elect
18. election
19. practice

20. practical

Spelling Related Words
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Week 26
Bonus Words: 

1. of
2. off
3. except
4. accept
5. which
6. witch
7. where
8. were
9. weather
10. whether
11. plant
12. planet
13. bounds
14. bounce
15. desert
16. dessert
17. rise
18. raise
19. dinner

20. diner

Spelling Easily Confused Words
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Week 27
Bonus Words: 

1. until
2. went
3. enough
4. TV
5. one
6. didn't
7. a lot
8. want
9. doesn't
10. always
11. necklace
12. exact
13. burglar
14. equipment
15. chimney
16. exist
17. rumbling
18. upon
19. athlete

20. examine

Focus: Spelling Using Just Enough Letters
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Week 28
Bonus Words: 

1. aware
2. prepare
3. share
4. declare
5. spare
6. beware
7. dairy
8. stairway
9. prairie
10.  repair
11. dear
12. beard
13. appear
14. weary
15. smear
16. volunteer
17. career
18. cheery
19. pioneer

20. reindeer

Phonics Focus: Spelling More Vowels with r
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Week 29
Bonus Words: 

1. lonely
2. hundred
3. friend
4. built
5. beautiful
6. heard
7. radio
8. their
9. caught
10. bored
11. guard
12. pierce
13. shrieked
14. receive
15. horrible
16. jewelry
17. tumble
18. northern
19. acre

20. museum

Focus: Spelling Letters in Correct Order
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Week 30
Bonus Words: 

1. column
2. columnist
3. face
4. facial
5. voice
6. vocal
7. limb
8. limber
9. fast
10.  fasten
11. wise
12. wisdom
13. cycle
14. bicycle
15. human
16. humane
17. stable
18. stability
19. final

20. finality

Focus: Spelling Related Words
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