Smith, Ms. / Weekly Spelling Lists

Below are the weekly spelling list words that the children will be tested on, the story that we are reading in class that week and the phonics focus of the spelling list words. Children are responsible to learn all 20 words. Study hard and good luck on your test! Look in your child's assignment notebook to confirm which spelling list we are working on each week.

ZB Spelling Unit #1 Short a and i
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
1.   land
2.   plan
3.   stand
4.   act
5.   last
6.   band
7.   grand
8.   stamp
9.   sand
10. stick
11. trip
12. thing
13. lift
14. swim
15. list
16. vacation
17. imagination
18. several
19. fantastic
20. stubborn

ZB Spelling Unit #2 Short o and e
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1.   crop
2.   clock
3.   drop
4.   plot
5.   block
6.   flock
7.   test
8.   spent
9.   left
10. sled
11. spend
12. west
13. tent
14. desk
15. nest
16. gobbled
17. porridge
18. promise
19. comfortable
20. naughty

ZB Spelling Unit #3 Short u sound
Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope
1.   lunch
2.   until
3.   buzz
4.   stuff
5.   dull
6.   study
7.   uncle
8.   cuff
9.   under
10. cover
11. become
12. nothing
13. month
14. love
15. none
16. prepare
17. favorite
18. practice
19. holidays
20. grandfather

Spelling Unit #4 /oi/ and /ou/
Herbie and Annabelle
1.    boil
2.   join
3.   voice
4.   oil
5.   point
6.   soil
7.   proud
8.   loud
9.   house
10. cloud
11. sound
12. round
13. south
14. found
15. ground
16. aloud
17. mouth
18. choice
19. noise
20. ointment

ZB Spelling Unit #5 ew and oo
Allie's Basketball Dream
1.   crew
2.   news
3.   drew
4.   knew
5.   threw
6.   chew
7.   loose
8.   school
9.   smooth
10. pool
11. shoot
12. roof
13. fool
14. balloon
15. choose
16. aimed
17. playground
18. basketball
19. dribbled
20. professional

ZB Spelling Unit #6 Review of 1-5 Strategies
1.   damp
2.   track
3.   trim
4.   shock
5.   bent
6.   lend
7.   fund
8.   son
9.   ton
10. toil
11. stout
12. hound
13. groom
14. troop
15. coop

16. imagination
17. breakfast
18. tourist
19. discovered
20. bounced

ZB Spelling Unit #7 Vowel-Consonant-e
Fly Traps! Plants That Bite Back
1.   state
2.   face
3.   pave
4.   flame
5.   skate
6.   plane
7.   slide
8.   size
9.   prize
10. smile
11. close
12. globe
13. smoke
14. broke
15. stone
16. insects
17. carnivorous
18. collect
19. chemicals
20. dissolve

ZB Spelling Unit #8 Long a: ai, ay
Guys From Space
1.   aid
2.   chain
3.   mail
4.   paint
5.   plain
6.   main
7.   pail
8.   laid
9.   paid
10. pay
11. tray
12. maybe
13. lay
14. always
15. away
16. breathe
17. scary
18. planet
19. plastic
20. tomorrow

ZB Spelling Unit #9 Long e: ee, ea
Tornado Alert
1.   sheep
2.   street
3.   wheels
4.   cheese
5.   sweet
6.   dream
7.   east
8.   treat
9.   mean
10. peace
11.   real
12. leave
13. stream
14. teacher
15. heat
16. destroy
17. warnings
18. wrecked
19. tornado
20. satellites

ZB Spelling Unit #10 Long i: i, igh
Danger Icebergs
1.   night
2.   bright
3.   find
4.   light
5.   wild
6.   high
7.   blind
8.   fight
9.   sight
10. kind
11. sign
12. knight
13. mild
14. right
15. sigh
16. thousands
17. iceberg
18. ocean
19. glacier
20. Titanic

ZB Spelling Unit #11 Long o: ow, oa, o
Nights of the Pufflings
1.   snow
2.   load
3.   almost
4.   row
5.   soak
6.   window
7.   foam
8.   most
9.   flow
10. goat
11. throw
12. float
13. blow
14. below
15. soap
16. island
17. confused
18. stranded
19. burrows
20. rescue

ZB Spelling Unit #12 Review of 7-11 Strategies

1.   stripe
2.   brave
3.   grove
4.   bail
5.   bait
6.   sway
7.   cream
8.   bead
9.   creep
10. bind
11. rind
12. thigh
13. fellow
14. groan
15. sold
16. pitcher
17. spaceship
18. powerful
19. alert
20. underground

ZB Spelling Unit #13 sh,ch,tch,wr,ck
What Do Authors Do?
1.   shape
2.   church
3.   watch
4.   father
5.   wrap
6.   check
7.   finish
8.   sharp
9.   mother
10. write
11. catch
12. chase
13. shall
14. thick
15. wrote
16. libraries
17. suggestions
18. authors
19. difficult
20. information

ZB Spelling Unit #14 Consonants /j/,/s/
Tops and Bottoms
1.   change
2.   age
3.   large
4.   page
5.   fence
6.   space
7.   center
8.   since
9.   price
10. ice
11. dance
12. pencil
13. slice
14. place
15. city
16. partners
17. cheated
18. business
19. remember
20. because

ZB Spelling Unit #15 Digraphs, Clusters
Mom's Best Friend
1.   shook
2.   flash
3.   fresh
4.   splash
5.   speech
6.   stitch
7.   scratch
8.   switch
9.   stretch
10. strong
11. string
12. spring
13. think
14. cloth
15. brook
16. introduce
17. direction
18. patient
19. diagonally
20. minute

ZB Spelling Unit #16 Schwa Sound
Brave as a Mountain Lion
1.   afraid
2.   around
3.   upon
4.   never
5.   open
6.   animal
7.   ever
8.   about
9.   again
10. another
11. couple
12. awake
13. over
14. asleep
15. above
16. mountain
17. trouble
18. thought
19. surprise
20. reservation

ZB Spelling Unit #17 Words Writers Use
Your Dad Was Just Like You
1.   friend
2.   very
3.   people
4.   your
5.   after
6.   busy
7.   other
8.   were
9.   should
10. once
11. would
12. sure
13. little
14. every
15. could
16. problem
17. serious
18. neighborhood
19. trophy
20. congratulate

ZB Spelling Unit #18 Review of 12-17 Strategies

1.   blush
2.   charm
3.   cage
4.   wren
5.   await
6.   gem
7.   stung
8.   apron
9.   pitch
10. brace
11. stack
12. flood
13. aside
14. patch
15. rage
16. museums
17. harvesting
18. correcting
19. spelling
20. prize

ZB Spelling Unit #19 Vowel /o/
Ananse's Feast
1.   draw
2.   cost
3.   dawn
4.   across
5.   belong
6.   cross
7.   soft
8.   crawl
9.   song
10. boss
11. straw
12. lawn
13. raw
14. lost
15. law
16. brilliant
17. greedy
18. stomach
19. although
20. enough

ZB Spelling Unit #20 r-Controlled Vowel: /or/
Sam and the Lucky Money
1.   story
2.   wore
3.   north
4.   board
5.   form
6.   corner
7.   warm
8.   score
9.   morning
10. forget
11.   before
12. storm
13. tore
14. order
15. war
16. appreciate
17. startled
18. receive
19. worthless
20. terrible

ZB Spelling Unit #21 r-Controlled Vowel: /ur/
Thunder Cake
1.   word
2.   fur
3.   early
4.   circus
5.   turn
6.   skirt
7.   earth
8.   work
9.   curl
10. learn
11.   hurt
12. dirt
13. earn
14. shirt
15. heard
16. lightning
17. weather
18. distance
19. measured
20. recipe

ZB Spelling Unit #22 r-Controlled Vowel: /ar/
One Grain of Rice
1.   bear
2.   air
3.   fare
4.   pear
5.   care
6.   their
7.   hair
8.   bare
9.   fair
10. there
11.   pair
12. wear
13. chair
14. where
15. hare
16. single
17. double
18. palace
19. school
20. birthday

ZB Spelling Unit #23 Homophones
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun
1.   way
2.   its
3.   owe
4.   sell
5.   great
6.   sail
7.   cell
8.   scent
9.   oh
10. cent
11.   it's
12. grate
13. weigh
14. sale
15. sent
16. excitement
17. astonished
18. respect
19. arrived
20. suppose

ZB Spelling Unit #24 Review of 19-23 Strategies

1.   bore
2.   sir
3.   bog
4.   waste
5.   dare
6.   horses
7.   purse
8.   paw
9.   steel
10. stair
11. claw
12. snore
13. blur
14. aware
15. steal
16. delighted
17. scolded
18. thunder
19. thief
20. cruel

ZB Spelling Unit #25 Double Consonants
Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh
1.    supper
2.   happen
3.   pepper
4.   kitten
5.   sudden
6.   letter
7.   dinner
8.   cotton
9.   lesson
10. mitten
11.   bottom
12. summer
13. better
14. ladder
15. ribbon
16. compasses
17. engines
18. instruments
19. destination
20. February

ZB Spelling Unit #26 Double Consonants + Y
Chibi: A True Story from Japan
1.   carry
2.   bunny
3.   happy
4.   muddy
5.   berry
6.   furry
7.   puppy
8.   sorry
9.   merry
10. jelly
11.   hurry
12. pretty
13. cherry
14. worry
15. funny
16. avenue
17. traffic
18. principal
19. address
20. children

ZB Spelling Unit #27 Adding - ing
Brave Irene
1.   coming
2.   skating
3.   taking
4.   giving
5.   choosing
6.   smiling
7.   baking
8.   sliding
9.   changing
10. waving
11. leaving
12. making
13. hoping
14. trading
15. having
16. snatched
17. stumble
18. journey
19. traveling
20. surrounded

ZB Spelling Unit #28 Adding ed and ing
More Than Anything Else
1.   stopped
2.   digging
3.   rubbed
4.   sitting
5.   planned
6.   wrapping
7.   sledding
8.   dropped
9.   scrubbing
10. hopped
11.   putting
12. tripped
13. swimming
14. spotted
15. running
16. alphabet
17. learning
18. newspaper
19. magic
20. tales

ZB Spelling Unit #29 Contractions
Leah's Pony
1.   he's
2.   what's
3.   don't
4.   I'm
5.   that's
6.   doesn't
7.   there's
8.   she's
9.   isn't
10. I'll
11.   won't
12. here's
13. didn't
14. who's
15. can't
16. chores
17. sturdy
18. country
19. borrowed
20. neither

ZB Spelling Unit #30 Review of 25-29 Strategies

1.   getting
2.   you've
3.   driving
4.   mommy
5.   butter
6.   puppet
7.   daddy
8.   aren't
9.   chasing
10. hopping
11.   gallop
12. dizzy
13. using
14. stepped
15. hadn't
16. route
17. ducklings
18. whipped
19. whirled
20. pasture

ZB Spelling Unit #31 Plurals: s, es
The Pinata Maker
1.   flags
2.   inches
3.   dresses
4.   pies
5.   bushes
6.   classes
7.   apples
8.   colors
9.   drums
10. branches
11.   things
12. buses
13. benches
14. tracks
15. brushes
16. famous
17. designed
18. fiesta
19. yesterday
20. together

ZB Spelling Unit #32 Irregular Plurals
Mailing May
1.   goose
2.   woman
3.   calf
4.   fish
5.   mouse
6.   leaf
7.   children
8.   geese
9.   calves
10. leaves
11. half
12. child
13. women
14. mice
15. halves
16. station
17. conductor
18. label
19. postal
20. different

ZB Spelling Unit #33 Suffixes: er, est
The Extra Good Sunday
1.   larger
2.   sadder
3.   widest
4.   sharper
5.   closest
6.   hotter
7.   saddest
8.   redder
9.   reddest
10. wider
11. later
12. largest
13. closer
14. hottest
15. latest
16. pronounced
17. refrigerator
18. success
19. complain
20. arguing

ZB Spelling Unit #34 Suffix: ly
Floating Home
1.    slowly
2.   mainly
3.   badly
4.   hourly
5.   suddenly
6.   lately
7.   partly
8.   closely
9.   really
10. lastly
11.   plainly
12. loudly
13. shortly
14. monthly
15. softly
16. astronaut
17. emergency
18. unusual
19. oxygen
20. atmosphere

ZB Spelling Unit #35 Compound Words
Two Bad Ants
1.   herself
2.   nobody
3.   airplane
4.   grandfather
5.   someone
6.   rainbow
7.   anything
8.   grandmother
9.   everything
10. afternoon
11.   sunshine
12. himself
13. anybody
14. something
15. without
16. crystal
17. remarkable
18. treasure
19. sparkling
20. echoing

ZB Spelling Unit #36 Review of 31-35 Strategies

1.    animals
2.   bigger
3.   safely
4.   shelves
5.   sunlight
6.   states
7.   older
8.   mostly
9.   wives
10. rowboat
11. sunglasses
12. friendly
13. speeches
14. nicest
15. loaves
16. creating
17. bundled
18. flushed
19. launch
20. blinding