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Spelling Word Cards: Short Vowels

crop plan thing

smell shut sticky

spent lunch pumpkin

clock gift class

skip swing planning

sprint wedge problem

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Spelling Word Cards: VCe Spellings

spoke mile save

excuse cone invite

cube price erase

ripe broke flame

life rule surprise

decide clothes strange

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Spelling Word Cards: More Long a and

Long e Spellings

lay real trail

sweet today dream

sleep tea treat

afraid leave bait

speed lead flavor

even between pavement

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Spelling Word Cards: More Long o Spellings

load open told

yellow soak shadow

toe follow glow

sold window almost

boast doe chosen

approach alone below

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Spelling Word Cards: More Long i Spellings

slight mild sight

pie mind tie

pilot might lie

tight blind fight

height midnight frighten

silent excite combine

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Spelling Word Cards: More Short and

Long Vowels

math toast easy

socks Friday stuff

paid cheese eighteen

elbow program shiny

piles sticky holiday

moment eager blossom

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Spelling Word Cards:

Three-Letter Blends

splash strange scratch

squeeze squeak squeal

screen split splat

sprain sprint strip

strap scrap straddle

splurge scrawl squirrel

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Spelling Word Cards:

Words with /j/, /k/, and /kw/

ledge nudge smudge

budge ridge wedge

quiet circus second

quart quick comma

stage huge quiver

constant budget enrage

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Spelling Word Cards:

Silent Consonants

wreck knee wrap

knot knife write

wring knew knock

knight wrong wrap

wrist wrote kneel

knitting wreath unwrapped

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Spelling Word Cards:

Spelling the /ch/ sound

fetch stretch roach

each peach screech

snatch hatch branch

clutch trench cinch

ouch couch stretcher

switching launch slouch

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Spelling Word Cards:

Vowel Sound in town

clown round bow

cloud power crown

thousand crowd sound

count powder blouse

frown pound mountain

announce vowel coward

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Spelling Word Cards:

Vowel Sound in talk

talk cross awful

law cloth cost

crawl chalk also

raw salt wall

lawn always squawk

haunt stalk sauce

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Spelling Word Cards: Vowel Sound in joy

joy point voice

join oil coin

noise spoil toy

joint boy soil

choice boil moisture

voyage avoid joyful

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Spelling Word Cards: Homophones

hole whole its

it’s hear here

won one our

hour their there

fur fir piece

peace waste waist

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Spelling Word Cards: Contractions

I’d aren’t haven’t

doesn’t hadn’t would’ve

wouldn’t should’ve we’d

weren’t hasn’t couldn’t

he’d they’d shouldn’t

won’t contraction placement

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Spelling Word Cards: Vowel + /r/ Sounds

horse mark storm

market acorn large

March north barking

stork thorn forest

chore restore horsepower

before artist carve

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Spelling Word Cards: Vowel + /r/ Sounds

in nurse

nurse work shirt

hurt chirp word

serve curly dirt

worry turn stir

firm skirt churning

swerve squirm twirling

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Spelling Word Cards: Vowel + /r/ Sounds

in air and fear

air wear chair

fear bare bear

hair care pear

pair share near

tear beard shearing

stairway bleary careless

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Spelling Word Cards: Compound Words

and Abbreviations

birthday anyone afternoon

airplane grandmother faraway

daylight Mr. Mrs.

Ms. Dr. Rd.

St. Ave. nighttime

granddaughter eyesight underground

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Spelling Word Cards: Irregular Plurals

leaf leaves loaf

loaves knife knives

louse lice wolf

wolves goose geese

woman women calves

oxen shelves echoes

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Spelling Word Cards: Words with /oo͝ /

and /oo͞ /

mood wooden drew

smooth blue balloon

true crooked chew

tooth hooves cool

pooch feud foolproof

spoonful footstool scrapbook

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Spelling Word Cards: Words with –ed and –ing

swimming drumming dropping

sitting taping invited

saving smiled planned

changing joking loved

gripped tasted admired

scrapped forgetting skidding

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Spelling Word Cards: Prefixes re–, un– and

Suffixes –less, –ness

unfold rejoin reheat

unfair rewrite unwrap

painless helpless kindness

fearless goodness spotless

softness darkness forgiveness

effortless reawaken unequal

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Spelling Word Cards: Changing Final y to i

cities cries puppies

hurried stories flies

parties tried pennies

happiness carried babies

spied ponies earlier

memories loveliest denied

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Spelling Word Cards: Suffixes –ful, –ly,

and –er

singer loudly joyful

teacher fighter closely

powerful farmer quickly

careful friendly speaker

wonderful truly watchful

delightful steadily container

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Spelling Word Cards: Words with ough

and augh

taught thought rough

laugh bought cough

ought caught fought

daughter tough through

enough brought laundry

naughty forethought throughout

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Spelling Word Cards: Words with /j/ and /s/

jacket pencil circle

center giant gentle

bouncing largest unchanging

replace fiercely cinch

emerge jawbone general

garbage bracelet silence

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Spelling Word Cards: VCCV Pattern

person helmet until

carpet Monday enjoy

forget problem Sunday

garden order mistake

umpire herself tunnel

lantern burden perhaps

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Spelling Word Cards: Words with

Double Consonants

jelly bottom pillow

happen butter lesson

cherry sudden arrow

dollar hello rabbit

letter button arrive

pattern sorrow suppose

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Spelling Word Cards: Words Ending

in –er or –le

apple river little

October ladder summer

purple later November

giggle uncle winter

center double whistle

struggle gather wander

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Spelling Word Cards: Review of

Position-Based Spellings

latch stitch blotch

stagecoach snatch enjoy

joyful coil moist

foil plow allow

pouch scout noisily

countless kitchen approach

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Spelling Word Cards: Words that Begin with

a– or be–

below about belong

around again alone

because above between

alive behind begin

along before beware

befallen award adore

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Spelling Word Cards: Review Syllable

Patterns: VCCV, V/CV, VC/V

spotted hobby kitten

chapter member hotel

even moment ruler

tiny cabin never

lemon limit tunnel

burden nation modern

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Spelling Word Cards: More Review Syllable

Patterns

control lizard chatted

pasted wrapping soapy

flavor fable invited

silent suppose person

lawyer stormy suggest

prefer basic timber

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Spelling Word Cards: Suffixes:

Review and Extend

thickness sickness fondness

illness stiffness hopeless

careless fearless useless

speechless peaceful skillful

movement payment forgiveness

cloudiness closeness forgetful

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Spelling Word Cards: Prefixes:

Review and Extend

untie unlucky unclear

unsure unhurt repaid

reuse recheck rewind

replay dislike disagree

displace distrust unable

dishonest restrain disgrace

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