Spelling Words

January-March 2016

Week / Phonics Words / HF Words
Jan. 4- 8 / Lesson 18: ar, or (r-controlled sounds)
Words: star, fork, born, mark, sort, short, march, corn, arm, dark, horn, part, shark, north, start, storm, pork, fort, yard, farm, spark, sharp, march, smart, scarf, park, cork, barn, torn, card, sport, chart, porch, stork, archer, art, bark, carpet, dart, acorn. Challenge: alarmed, radar, archery, barnyard, calendar, darling, carve, adore, color, coral, favor, anchor, effort, factory. / because right, write, mother, asked
Jan. 11- 15 / Lesson 19: ir, er, ur (r-controlled sounds)
Words: her, fur, shirt, burn, girl, skirt, curve, thirst, surf, twirl, over, church, birth, herb, blur, zero Challenge: squirt, thirsty, flier, furry, swerving, squirm, perched, hurl, purring, swirling, stronger. / animals, mother, once our, hour,
Jan. 19- 22
No School 1/18
MLK day / Lesson 20: oi and oy
Words: coin, boy, join, toy, soil, foil, enjoy, point, soy, hoist, ploy, voice, joy, noise, choice, broil, coil, boil, oil, moist. Challenge: employee, voiceless, joyful, enjoyment, topsoil, noises, hoisted, boyfriend, pointing, uncoiled, boiling. / they, father, there, their, they’re
Jan. 25 - 29 / Lesson 21: Sounds of ow (now ), long o sound (low)
Words: how, snow, low, now, town, blow, crowd, brown, cow, crow, frown, grow, know, now, owl, clown, glow, frown, flown, drown, bowl.
Challenge: flowers, allowed, blowing, frowning, thrown, crown, snowball, grown, snowy, slowly, knowingly. / threw, through, until, morning,
Feb. 1- 5 / Lesson 22: aw (law) and ew (new)
Words: law, new, saw, draw, chew, knew, claw, raw, stew, yawn, grew, threw, screw, thaw, flew, dawn. Challenge: shrewd, squawk, gawking, shawl, drawn, awed, brewing, awards, coleslaw, curfew, dewdrop, interview, jewelry. / new, knew, children, now, coming
Feb. 8- 12 / Lesson 23: au (sauce) and ou (out)
Words: loud, haul, house, sauce, bounce, fault, mouth, around, aloud, fraud, pause, sound, cloud, ouch, our. Challenge: foul, launch, mouthwash, mountain, caught, taught, announce, background, counter, compound, taunt, audience. / together, hole, whole, could, those
Feb. 16- 19
No School 2/15
President Day / Lesson 24: sounds of oo (zoo), oo ( cook)
Words: zoo, shook, food, cool, foot, soon, pool, shoot, wood, spoon, moon , roof, tooth, noon, hood, stool, broom, stood, spook, root, spool, pool, bloom, book, goose, Challenge: smoothie, bookcase, hooves, poodle, toothache, cooking, moonlight, moody, droop, choosy, bamboo, cookie. / sometimes, one, won, was, everybody
Feb. 22- 26 / Lesson 25: ough (cough) and our (four)
Words: brought, four, cough, mourn, ought, fourth, thought, course, trough, fought, pour, bought, court, source, your. Challenge: fourteen, thoughtful, mournful, coughing, refought, pouring, resourceful, yourself, courage, backcourt, hourly. / here, hear, another, own, while
Feb. 29- March 4 / Lesson 26 : Words with prefix un- , pre-, and re-
Words: undo, unzip, untie, uneven, unpaid, unlock, undone, unkind, unwise, unbend, unsafe, unclip, unloved, unlucky, prebake, precook, precut, prepay, preheat, premixed, redo, refinish, rewrite, react Challenge: unhook, untied, unwrap, unbaked, unequal, unleash, reapprove, reassign, premeasured, prepackage, preview, reaccept. / Review HF words from previous weeks.