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GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #1: Short Vowels
a e i o u
1. arithmetic 11. original
2. sandwich 12. tactic
3. practice 13. prosper
4. advertise 14. occur
5. alphabet 15. college
6. splendid 16. convince
7. mentally 17. supported
8. gentlemen 18. muscle
9. vinegar 19. insulting
10. disgust 20. luxury
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #2: Long A Spellings
1. operate 11. container
2. escape 12. vacant
3. toothache 13. acre
4. replacement 14. potato
5. x-ray 15. native
6. decay 16. eighty-eight
7. essay 17. neighbor
8. despair 18. weight
9. raisin 19. reindeer
10. waistline 20. veil
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GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #3: Long E Spellings
1. sesame 11. shield
2. recipe 12. thief
3. career 13. cashier
4. proceed 14. achieve
5. feature 15. ceiling
6. increase 16. either
7. complete 17. conceit
8. delete 18. deceit
9. grief 19. neither
10. relief 20. weird
e ee ea e_e ie ei
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #4: Long I Spellings
1. describe 11. nylon
2. realize 12. highlight
3. excitement 13. design
4. dynamite 14. icicle
5. tyrant 15. silence
6. deny 16. horizon
7. cyclone 17. diary
8. style 18. island
9. hydrant 19. rye
10. bicycle 20. height
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GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #5: Long O Spellings
1. cocoa 11. approach
2. tornado 12. cockroach
3. piano 13. gloat
4. grocery 14. unknown
5. ocean 15. sorrowful
6. motto 16. ownership
7. total 17. although
8. tomato 18. poultry
9. omit 19. thorough
10. trombone 20. borough
o o_e ow oa ou
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #6: Long U and /oo/ Spellings
1. annual 11. jewel
2. utensil 12. curfew
3. computer 13. continue
4. community 14. avenue
5. perfume 15. recruit
6. confused 16. bruise
7. costumes 17. coupon
8. useless 18. cougar
9. usable/useable 19. wound
10. interview 20. through
u u_e ew ue ui ou
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #7: R Controlled Vowel Spellings
1. regular 11. confirm
2. popular 12. miracle
3. argument 13. corridor
4. article 14. refrigerator
5. remarked 15. enormous
6. error 16. urgency
7. governor 17. furniture
8. conserve 18. curtain
9. external 19. disturbing
10. consider 20. rumor
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R Controlled Vowel Combinations
1. flair 11. desire
2. affair 12. entire
3. flare 13. inquire
4. declare 14. inspire
5. appear 15. require
6. weary 16. galore
7. rehearse 17. cardboard
8. pearl 18. culture
9. jeer 19. mixture
10. pioneer 20. insure
air are ear eer ire ore oar ure
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #8:
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #9: /ow/ and /oi/ Spellings
1. however 11. country
2. browse 12. appointment
3. allowance 13. moisture
4. rowdy 14. poise
5. scowl 15. poisonous
6. doubt 16. oyster
7. fountain 17. voyage
8. surrounding 18. decoy
9. mountain 19. annoying
10. pronounce 20. soybean
ow ou oi oy
Homophones
1. allowed 11. least
2. aloud 12. leased
3. due 13. root
4. dew 14. route
5. doe 15. suede
6. dough 16. swayed
7. paws 17. whether
8. pause 18. weather
9. seller 19. guessed
10. cellar 20. guest
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #10:
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #11: Silent Letters
1. salmon 11. exhibit
2. palm 12. resign
3. knowledge 13. assigned
4. sword 14. guardian
5. shipwreck 15. column
6. debt 16. autumn
7. doubt 17. hymn
8. graham 18. schedule
9. vehicle 19. stomachache
10. exhaust 20. mechanic
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GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #12: /aw/ Spellings
1. awkward 11. autograph
2. withdrawn 12. sausage
3. awning 13. daughter
4. all ready 14. haul
5. already 15. vault
6. altered 16. automobile
7. altogether 17. ought
8. talkative 18. sought
9. alternative 19. broadcast
10. audio 20. abroad
aw all al au ough oa
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #13: /s/ and /j/ Spellings
1. signature 11. justice
2. several 12. jealous
3. similar 13. gesture
4. certain 14. generous
5. recently 15. genius
6. decision 16. register
7. circulate 17. imagine
8. cylinder 18. energy
9. scissors 19. fidget
10. fascinate 20. cartridge
s c[e] c[i] c[y] sc [i] [y] d j g g ge
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #14: Double Consonants
1. success 11. commute
2. piccolo 12. summon
3. buffalo 13. mammal
4. millipede 14. hurricane
5. trillion 15. cassette
6. syllable 16. passenger
7. pollute 17. messenger
8. llama 18. blizzard
9. controller 19. buzzard
10. comment 20. grizzly
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GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #15: Compound Words
1. elsewhere 11. lifeguard
2. scoreboard 12. halfback
3. background 13. homemade
4. roommate 14. woodland
5. otherwise 15. wheelbarrow
6. videotape 16. outstanding
7. headache 17. household
8. windshield 18. headquarters
9. overheard 19. fire escape
10. network 20. test tube
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #16: Plural Spellings
1. anchor/anchors 11. memory/memories
2. character/characters 12. battery/batteries
3. suffix/suffixes 13. country/countries
4. crutch/crutches 14. essay/essays
5. thief/thieves 15. x-ray/x-rays
6. belief/beliefs 16. hero/heroes
7. chief/chiefs 17. echo/echoes
8. safe/safes 18. rodeo/rodeos
9. victory/victories 19. trio/trios
10. treaty/treaties 20. piano/pianos
s es ves ies
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #17: Adding Suffixes to –y Endings
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #18: Abbreviations
1. P.O./Post Office 11. ME/Maine
2. R.F.D./ 12. AK/Alaska
Rural Free Delivery
3. co./company 13. CA/California
4. dept./department 14. CO/Colorado
5. bldg./building 15. NV/Nevada
6. Jr./Junior 16. MD/Maryland
7. Sr./Senior 17. MA/Massachusetts
8. govt./government 18. TX/Texas
9. M.D./Medical Doctor 19. MT/Montana
10. D.D.S./Doctor of 20. D.C./District of
Dental Surgery Columbia
1. decoy/decoys 11. decay/decaying
2. beauty/beauties 12. rely/relies
3. injury/injuries 13. rely/relied
4. memory/memories 14. rely/relying
5. energy/energize 15. scurry/scurries
6. prepay/prepays 16. scurry/scurried
7. prepay/prepaid 17. scurry/scurrying
8. prepay/prepaying 18. apply/applies
9. decay/decays 19. apply/applied
10. decay/decayed 20. apply/applying
s ies ize ed ied ing irregular
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #19: Adding Endings to Magic E Words
1. balance/balances 11. require/requiring
2. balance/balancing 12. require/requirement
3. suppose/supposed 13. improve/improves
4. suppose/supposing 14. improve/improving
5. believe/believes 15. improve/ improvement
6. believe/believing 16. amuse/amused
7. amaze/amazes 17. amuse/amusing
8. amaze/amazing 18. amuse/amusement
9. amaze/amazement 19. settle/settling
10. require/required 20. settle/settlement
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Homophones
1. pearl 11. bail
2. purl 12. bale
3. creek 13. chord
4. creak 14. cored
5. boarder 15. cord
6. border 16. links
7. quarts 17. lynx
8. quartz 18. there
9. wade 19. their
10. weighed 20. they’re
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #20:
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #21: Prefixes
1. prehistoric 11. dissatisfied
2. prearranged 12. misfortune
3. precise 13. miscounted
4. unexpected 14. misleading
5. unnumbered 15. misbehaved
6. uncommon 16. misjudge
7. recaptured 17. independent
8. returnable 18. informal
9. disrespectful 19. incorrectly
10. discontinue 20. incomplete
pre- [before] un- [not] re- [again] dis- [not, lack of] mis- [not, wrong] in- [not]
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #22: Suffixes
1. far farther farthest 2. costly costlier costliest 3. dreary drearier dreariest 4. juicy juicier juiciest 5. lively livelier liveliest 6. lovely lovelier loveliest 7. tasty tastier tastiest 8. spicy spicier spiciest 9. healthy healthier healthiest 10. wealthy wealthier wealthiest 11. advertise advertiser 12. promote promoter 13. treasure treasurer 14. produce producer 15. arrange arranger 16. navigate navigator 17. operate operator 18. invent inventor 19. instruct instructor 20. project projector
er [more] est [most] [a person who does] er, or
15. begin begins 16. travel traveling 17. focus focused 18. panel paneling 19. pedal pedaling 20. shovel shoveling
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #24: Contractions
1. will not won’t 2. does not doesn’t 3. had not hadn’t 4. should not shouldn’t 5. could not couldn’t 6. it will it’ll 7. who will who’ll 8. they will they’ll 9. when is when’s 10. there is there’s 11. who is who’s 12. they have they’ve 13. we have we’ve 14. who would who’d 15. he would he’d 16. they would they’d 17. we would we’d 18. they are they’re 19. you are you’re 20. we are we’re
Doubling Final Consonants
1. occur occurred 2. occur occurs 3. control controlling 4. control controls 5. permit permitted 6. permit permits 7. prefer preferring 8. prefer prefers 9. forgot forgotten 10. forgot forgetting 11. forgot forgetful 12. admit admitted 13. admit admits 14. begin beginner
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #23:
1. extracted 11. personally
2. exchanging 12. actually
3. expensive 13. various [vary + ous]
4. excavate 14. furious [fury + ous]
5. ex-president 15. adventurous
6. combined 16. hazardous
7. compartment 17. admirable
8. comfortable 18. adorable
9. competing 19. excitable
10. comparison 20. available
-ous [full of] -able [able to; likely to] ex- [out or beyond] com- [with] -ly [like, how]
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #25: More Prefixes and Suffixes
GREEN LEVEL SPELLING LIST #26: Final Review Test
1. vinegar 11. autumn 21. independent
2. neighbor 12. daughter 22. instructor
3. complete 13. energy 23. permitted
4. dynamite 14. success 24. they’ll
5. cocoa 15. outstanding 25. furious
6. annual 16. heroes
7. disturbing 17. applying
8. mixture 18. Sr.
9. allowance 19. improving
10. weather 20. their
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #1: Short Vowels
a e i o u
1. stamp 11. brisk
2. clasp 12. cling
3. brand 13. cloth
4. scrap 14. frost
5. bench 15. stock
6. blend 16. honk
7. swept 17. lunch
8. spent 18. truck
9. print 19. pumpkin
10. think 20. crust
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #2: Long A Spellings
1. crave 11. spray
2. trade 12. haystack
3. scrape 13. sideways
4. behave 14. brain
5. chase 15. paint
6. became 16. plain
7. always 17. trail
8. subway 18. faith
9. crayon 19. drain
10. maybe 20. sprain
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #3: Long E Spellings
1. become 11. stream
2. behind 12. Easter
3. wheel 13. scream
4. greet 14. peanut
5. greed 15. squeak
6. sweep 16. beast
7. street 17. rear
8. queen 18. here
9. screen 19. these
10. teacher 20. eve
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #4: Long I Spellings
1. while 11. grind
2. write 12. mind
3. alive 13. wild
4. beside 14. child
5. quite 15. flight
6. crime 16. fright
7. lifetime 17. tight
8. pry 18. night
9. sly 19. sight
10. kind 20. high
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #5: Long O Spellings
1. also 11. elbow
2. post 12. below
3. almost 13. coast
4. broke 14. groan
5. globe 15. goal
6. shone 16. boast
7. owner 17. throat
8. lower 18. toast
9. shadow 19. coach
10. window 20. float
o ost o_e ow oa
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #6: Long U and /oo/ Spellings
1. used 11. balloon
2. tune 12. school
3. rule 13. loose
4. flute 14. choose
5. tube 15. smooth
6. drew 16. proof
7. threw 17. glue
8. chew 18. true
9. screw 19. blue
10. raccoon 20. clue
u_e ew oo ue
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #7: R Controlled Vowel Spellings
1. apart 11. corner
2. scarf 12. world
3. charm 13. morning
4. partner 14. worst
5. starve 15. order
6. perfect 16. curve
7. every 17. church
8. power 18. nurse
9. thunder 19. purple
10. afternoon 20. turtle
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #8: R Controlled Vowel Combinations
1. airplane 11. wire
2. chairman 12. tire
3. rare 13. hire
4. square 14. fire
5. clear 15. store
6. fear 16. wore
7. hear 17. tore
8. nearer 18. shore
9. tear [a salty tear] 19. score
10. dearest 20. swore
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #9: /ow/ and /oi/ Spellings
1. crowd 11. grouch
2. growl 12. mouth
3. shower 13. proud
4. snowplow 14. moist
5. flower 15. spoil
6. flour 16. coil
7. around 17. noise
8. ground 18. voice
9. southeast 19. enjoy
10. counter 20. royal
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #10: Homophones
1. past 11. wood
2. passed 12. would
3. steal 13. ate
4. steel 14. eight
5. find 15. witch
6. fined 16. which
7. tide 17. oh
8. tied 18. owe
9. mail 19. hole
10. male 20. whole
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #11: Silent Letters
1. chalk 11. bomb
2. half 12. comb
3. known 13. crumb
4. knife 14. doorknob
5. knight 15. hour
6. knapsack 16. ghost
7. wreck 17. honest
8. wring 18. soften
9. wrong 19. often
10. wrench 20. listen
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ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #12: /aw/ Spellings
1. crawled 11. thaw
2. shawl 12. basketball
3. squawk 13. all right
4. coleslaw 14. wallpaper
5. scrawl 15. stall
6. strawberry 16. walnut
7. lawyer 17. walrus
8. outlaw 18. false
9. sawdust 19. salt
10. drawing 20. halt
aw all al
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #13: /s/ and /j/ Spellings
1. mustard 11. cider
2. second 12. jelly
3. silent 13. Jupiter
4. center 14. jacket
5. fences 15. large
6. twice 16. change
7. chance 17. orange
8. once 18. germ
9. since 19. giant
10. circus 20. gym
s c[e] c[i] [e] [i] [y] j g g g
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #14: Double Consonants
1. bubble 11. common
2. ribbon 12. hammer
3. stubble 13. suppose
4. sudden 14. supper
5. middle 15. carrot
6. dollar 16. borrow
7. follow 17. lesson
8. jello 18. cotton
9. swallow 19. bottom
10. command 20. lettuce
bb dd ll mm pp rr ss tt
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #15: Compound Words
1. campfire 11. meatball
2. slowpoke 12. grandmother
3. playground 13. grandfather
4. fingerprints 14. sunshine
5. forever 15. rainbow
6. upstairs 16. anything
7. classroom 17. sometimes
8. airport 18. someone
9. paintbrush 19. popcorn
10. washcloth 20. nobody
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #16: Plural Spellings
10. flash/flashes 20. goose/geese
1. insect/insects 11. crash/crashes
2. handle/handles 12. mailbox/mailboxes
3. quilt/quilts 13. tax/taxes
4. stroke/strokes 14. buzz/buzzes
5. tower/towers 15. glass/glasses
6. bunch/bunches 16. mouse/mice
7. witch/witches 17. die/dice
8. match/matches 18. child/children
9. hairbrush/ 19. woman/women hairbrushes
s es irregular plural spellings
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #17: Adding Suffixes to –y Endings
1. monkey/monkeys 11. hurry/hurries
2. turkey/turkeys 12. hurry/hurried
3. bluejay/bluejays 13. study/studies
4. runway/runways 14. study/studied
5. spy/spies 15. enjoy/enjoys
6. berry/berries 16. enjoy/enjoyed
7. butterfly/butterflies 17. pay/pays
8. party/parties 18. pay/paid
9. copy/copies 19. say/says
s ies ied ed irregular
10. copy/copied 20. say/said
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #18: Abbreviations
1. Mon./Monday 11. W or W./West
2. Tues./Tuesday 12. NE or NE./Northeast
3. Wed./Wednesday 13. SW or SW./Southwest
4. Thurs./Thursday 14. NJ or N.J./New Jersey
5. Fri./Friday 15. NY or N.Y./New York
6. Sat./Saturday 16. NYC or N.Y.C./ New York City 7. Sun./Sunday 17. USA or U.S.A./United States of America 8. N, N., No./North 18. tpke./turnpike
9. S, S., So./South 19. rte./route
10. E or E./East 20. mph or m.p.h./ miles per hour
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #19: Adding Endings to Magic E Words
1. shine/shines 11. dance/danced
2. shine/shining 12. dance/dancing
3. taste/tasted 13. lose/loses
4. taste/tasting 14. lose/losing
5. bore/bores 15. carve/carved
6. bore/boring 16. carve/carving
7. skate/skated 17. share/shares
8. skate/skating 18. share/sharing
9. close/closes 19. paste/pasted
10. close/closing 20. paste/pasting
s ing ed
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #20: Homophones
1. cell 11. some
2. sell 12. sum
3. soar 13. main
4. sore 14. mane
5. tic 15. groan
6. tick 16. grown
7. tees 17. cheap
8. tease 18. cheep
9. chute 19. their
10. shoot 20. there
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #21: Prefixes
1. preschool 11. reminded
2. prewashed 12. rewinding
3. prefer 13. removed
4. prevent 14. rewriting
5. predict 15. replacing
6. uncover 16. discolor
7. unbuttoned 17. distrust
8. unknown 18. dismount
9. unwanted 19. disabled
10. unfair 20. discount
pre- [before] un- [not] re- [again] dis- [not, lack of]
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #22: Suffixes
1. fresh fresher freshest 2. young younger youngest 3. warm warmer warmest 4. faint fainter faintest 5. cheap cheaper cheapest 6. clean cleaner cleanest 7. brave braver bravest 8. late later latest 9. happy happier happiest 10. sorry sorrier sorriest 11. pretty prettier prettiest 12. ugly uglier ugliest 13. merry merrier merriest 14. easy easier easiest 15. close closer closest 16. dream dreamer 17. pitch pitcher 18. train trainer 19. speak speaker 20. report reporter
er [more] est [most] [a person who does] er
14. chop chopping 15. drum drummer 16. shut shutter 17. swim swimmer 18. flat flattest 19. glad gladdest 20. thin thinnest
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #24: Contractions
1. can not can’t 2. do not don’t 3. were not weren’t 4. has not hasn’t 5. he will he’ll 6. we will we’ll 7. you will you’ll 8. that is that’s 9. what is what’s 10. here is here’s 11. I have I’ve 12. you have you’ve 13. we have we’ve 14. I would I’d 15. they would they’d 16. she would she’d 17. you would you’d 18. I am I’m 19. let us let’s 20. of the clock o’clock
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #23: Doubling Final Consonants
1. stab stabbed 2. grip gripping 3. trap trapped 4. grin grinning 5. step stepped 6. trip tripping 7. shop shopping 8. wrap wrapping 9. scrub scrubbed 10. trim trimming 11. whip whipped 12. grab grabbing 13. drop dropped
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #25: More Prefixes and Suffixes
1. uneven 11. darkness
2. unskilled 12. sadness
3. unharmed 13. shortness
4. unbroken 14. illness
5. uncaring 15. kindness
6. rebound 16. dearly
7. regained 17. safely
8. restrain 18. lovely
9. disorder 19. luckily [luck + ly]
10. disrupt 20. happily [happy + ly]
un- [not] re- [again] dis- [not, lack of] -ness [way of being] -ly [like, every]
ORANGE LEVEL SPELLING LIST #26: Final Review Test
1. pumpkin 11. comb 21. discount
2. sprain 12. false 22. younger
3. teacher 13. circus 23. dropped
4. while 14. bottom 24. weren’t
5. throat 15. someone 25. kindness
6. school 16. children
7. morning 17. hurried
8. tire 18. Tues.
9. shower 19. closing
10. witch 20. groan
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #1: Short Vowels
a e i o u
1. ankle 11. spinach
2. traffic 12. instead
3. salad 13. doctor
4. animal 14. collar
5. plenty 15. ostrich
6. sketch 16. promise
7. parent 17. adult
8. celery 18. hundred
9. pitcher 19. crunchy
10. hinge 20. suddenly
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #2: Long A Spellings
1. parade 11. straight
2. inflate 12. radio
3. lemonade 13. stable
4. safety 14. laser
5. relay 15. flavor
6. highway 16. hazy
7. display 17. break
8. crayfish 18. steak
9. explain 19. greatly
10. failure 20. they
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YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #3: Long E Spellings
1. between 11. money
2. evil 12. journey
3. agree 13. medley
4. indeed 14. chimney
5. beetle 15. people
6. repeat 16. cheese
7. wreath 17. sneeze
8. treason 18. grease
9. scene 19. please
10. scheme 20. leave
e ee ea e_e ey eo combinations
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #4: Long I Spellings
1. admire 11. plight
2. umpire 12. idea
3. surprise 13. iron
4. guide 14. quiet
5. polite 15. title
6. retire 16. dinosaur
7. type 17. buy
8. reply 18. guy
9. delight 19. goodbye
10. thigh 20. eyesore
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YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #5: Long O Spellings
1. bonus 11. pillow
2. hotel 12. oath
3. moment 13. loaded
4. program 14. blindfold
5. clothes 15. molding
6. chose 16. dough
7. alone 17. though
8. tightrope 18. shoulder
9. quote 19. boulder
10. following 20. soul
o o_e ow oa old ou
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #6: Long U and /oo/ Spellings
1. human 11. cashew
2. music 12. withdrew
3. future 13. review
4. menu 14. bamboo
5. museum 15. whirlpool
6. pupil 16. rescue
7. accuse 17. value
8. excuse 18. fruit
9. huge 19. juice
10. nephew 20. cruise
u u_e ew oo ue ui
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #7: R Controlled Vowel Spellings
1. liar 11. circle
2. hazard 12. squirrel
3. alarming 13. author
4. wizard 14. editor
5. errand 15. horror
6. insert 16. terror
7. perhaps 17. murmur
8. expert 18. purchase
9. squirming 19. surface
10. thirsty 20. murderer
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YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #8: R Controlled Vowel Combinations
1. repair 11. earthquake
2. dairy 12. search
3. beware 13. earning
4. prepare 14. heard
5. fearless 15. bored
6. beard 16. ignore
7. cheerful 17. explore
8. peer 18. board
9. heartbeat 19. hoard
10. early 20. soaring
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YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #9: /ow/ and /oi/ Spellings
1. eyebrow 11. ounce
2. horsepower 12. crouch
3. prowler 13. avoid
4. drowning 14. hoist
5. vowel 15. choices
6. amount 16. ointment
7. blouse 17. toilet
8. drowsy 18. loyal
9. countdown 19. employ
10. thousand 20. destroy
ow ou oi oy
1. foul 11. pore
2. fowl 12. pour
3. tax 13. peek
4. tacks 14. peak
5. choose 15. worn
6. chews 16. warn
7. peace 17. forth
8. piece 18. fourth
9. waist 19. pole
10. waste 20. poll
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #10: Homophones
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #11: Silent Letters
1. calm 11. herbal
2. yolk 12. honored
3. almond 13. castle
4. kneel 14. fasten
5. knuckle 15. gnaw
6. answered 16. gnome
7. wrestle 17. gnarl
8. wrinkle 18. guitar
9. numb 19. guilty
10. plumber 20. guinea pig
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YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #12: /aw/ Spellings
1. awful 11. faucet
2. awesome 12. applaud
3. drawer 13. haunt
4. dawdle 14. brought
5. install 15. cough
6. malted milk 16. thought
7. launch 17. caught
8. fault 18. naughty
9. laundry 19. offering
10. drawing 20. coffee
aw all al au ough augh off
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #13: /s/ and /j/ Spellings
1. single 11. project
2. secure 12. garbage
3. officer 13. stranger
4. advance 14. cottage
5. scarce 15. engine
6. cigar 16. gigantic
7. citizen 17. rigid
8. science 18. judge
9. crescent 19. edge
10. jungle 20. bridge
s c[e] c[i] [e] [i] d sc j g g ge
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #14: Double Consonants
1. occur 11. quill
2. address 12. hammock
3. different 13. cannon
4. waffle 14. blossoming
5. snuggle 15. recess
6. giggle 16. missile
7. gorilla 17. battleground
8. umbrella 18. mutter
9. pollen 19. dizzy
10. vanilla 20. puzzle
cc dd ff gg ll mm nn ss tt zz
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #15: Compound Words
1. everywhere 11. another
2. whenever 12. livestock
3. newspaper 13. cheerleader
4. flashlight 14. bumblebee
5. tablecloth 15. greenhouse
6. peppermint 16. bloodhound
7. drugstore 17. eardrum
8. supermarket 18. earthworm
9. anybody 19. alarm clock
10. nearby 20. seat belt
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #16: Plural Spellings
1. whistle/whistles 11. family/families
2. friend/friends 12. army/armies
3. nerve/nerves 13. jockey/jockeys
4. cartoon/cartoons 14. holiday/holidays
5. question/questions 15. valley/valleys
6. wristwatch/ 16. calf/calves wristwatches 7. address/addresses 17. loaf/loaves
8. library/libraries 18. bookshelf/ bookshelves 9. flurry/flurries 19. yourself/yourselves
10. duty/duties 20. ox/oxen
s es ies ves irregular plural spellings
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #17: Adding Suffixes to –y Endings
1. delay/delays 11. buy/buying
2. alley/alleys 12. multiply/multiplies
3. driveway/driveways 13. multiply/multiplied
4. bakery/bakeries 14. multiply/multiplying
5. enemy/enemies 15. empty/empties
6. replay/replays 16. empty/emptied
7. replay/replayed 17. empty/emptying
8. replay/replaying 18. bury/buries
9. buy/buys 19. bury/buried
10. buy/bought 20. bury/burying
s ies ied ed ing irregular past tense
1. doz./dozen 11. Jan./January
2. sq./square 12. Feb./February
3. amt./amount 13. Mar./March
4. pkg./package 14. Apr./April
5. wt./weight 15. Jul./July
6. apt./apartment 16. Aug./August
7. cm or cm./ 17. Sept./September centimeter 8. m or m./meter 18. Oct./October
9. l or l./liter 19. Nov./November
10. k.o./knockout 20. Dec./December
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #18: Abbreviations
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #19: Adding Endings to Magic E Words
1. decide/decides 11. force/forced
2. decide/deciding 12. force/forcing
3. scribble/scribbled 13. combine/combines
4. scribble/scribbling 14. combine/ combining 5. arrive/arrives 15. handle/handled
6. arrive/arriving 16. handle/handling
7. dodge/dodged 17. sense/senses
8. dodge/dodging 18. sense/sensing
9. tackle/tackles 19. glare/glared
10. tackle/tackling 20. glare/glaring
s ing ed
Homophones
1. great 11. hire
2. grate 12. higher
3. died 13. current
4. dyed 14. currant
5. coward 15. based
6. cowered 16. baste
7. loan 17. thrown
8. lone 18. throne
9. bold 19. their
10. bowled 20. there
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #20:
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #21: Prefixes
1. preserved 11. reappear
2. presented 12. recycle
3. pretending 13. research
4. prefixes 14. rebuilding
5. prescribes 15. reviewed
6. unfriendly 16. disinfect
7. unselfish 17. discharged
8. unwelcome 18. disloyal
9. unpopular 19. dishonest
10. unstable 20. disagree
pre- [before] un- [not] re- [again] dis- [not, lack of]
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #22: Suffixes
1. rough rougher roughest 2. gentle gentler gentlest 3. bald balder baldest 4. tough tougher toughest 5. simple simpler simplest 6. humble humbler humblest 7. sticky stickier stickiest 8. greedy greedier greediest 9. homely homelier homeliest 10. fancy fancier fanciest 11. heavy heavier heaviest 12. curly curlier curliest 13. angry angrier angriest 14. lazy lazier laziest 15. hungry hungrier hungriest 16. dirty dirtier dirtiest 17. handy handier handiest 18. grouchy grouchier grouchiest 19. adventure adventurer 20. discover discoverer
er [more] est [most] [a person who does] er
16. fit fitness 17. bag bagged 18. bag bagful 19. ship shipping 20. ship shipment
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #24: Contractions
1. will not won’t 2. does not doesn’t 3. have not haven’t 4. would not wouldn’t 5. had not hadn’t 6. it will it’ll 7. they will they’ll 8. who will who’ll 9. where is where’s 10. what is what’s 11. here is here’s 12. you have you’ve 13. they have they’ve 14. we would we’ve 15. he would he’d 16. they would they’d 17. you would you’d 18. we are we’re 19. they are they’re 20. you are you’re
Doubling Final Consonants
1. scar scarred 2. drip dripping 3. skin skinned 4. swat swatted 5. drug drugged 6. quit quitting 7. blot blotter 8. slug slugger 9. slip slippery 10. blur blurry 11. flop floppy 12. jar jarful 13. dim dimmed 14. dim dimly 15. fit fitting
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #23:
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #25: More Prefixes and Suffixes
1. inactive 11. wasteful
2. inability 12. forgetful
3. misfit 13. secretly
4. misused 14. instantly
5. misspell 15. totally
6. mistreated 16. easily [easy + ly]
7. misprinted 17. angrily [angry + ly]
8. thankful 18. merrily [merry + ly]
9. helpful 19. politeness
10. grateful 20. crunchiness [crunchy + ness]
un- [not] mis- [not, wrong, incorrectly] - [full of] [like, how]
YELLOW LEVEL SPELLING LIST #26: Final Review Test
1. animal 11. answered 21. rebuilding
2. parade 12. cough 22. angriest
3. between 13. bridge 23. scarred
4. surprise 14. address 24. wouldn’t
5. clothes 15. earthworm 25. totally
6. future 16. holidays
7. circle 17. emptying
8. prepare 18. cm or cm.
9. thousand 19. combining
10. piece 20. their
ful -ly -ness [way of being]
