Through some friendly competition, spelling bee contests can motivate children. Spelling bees help students improve their spelling skills and increase their vocabulary.
This competitive event should challenge children; but remember, it is just a game. Anyone who takes the time to practice spelling words and then participate in a spelling bee – is already a winner!
Spelling Bee
A child should be prepared to spell their grade level words plus one grade above. In addition, content specific vocabulary words as well as spelling words can be included in spelling bee contests. To prepare for a spelling bee, our school encouraged students to study the words on the lists below. They include Scripp’s practice words and commonly misspelled words.
Spelling Bee Words – Third Grade
camping | every | wrap | playground | edge |
summer | city | two | piece | please |
phone | cloth | pair | eight | happiest |
main | bridge | catch | babies | thousand |
seven | jeans | quick | might | handle |
mice | house | season | useful | between |
cents | learn | camera | crowded | fruit |
super | barefoot | because | hour | could |
join | without | fellow | cartoon | family |
happen | know | itself | true | honest |
Click here for a PDF file of the above third grade spelling bee words.
Spelling Bee Words – Fourth Grade
season | useful | between | coffee | avenue |
camera | crowded | fruit | laundry | semifinal |
because | hour | could | surround | brighten |
fellow | cartoon | family | urgent | receive |
itself | true | honest | thought | plural |
playground | edge | cancel | guard | holiday |
piece | please | furnace | suggest | squeeze |
eight | happiest | dangerous | terrible | treasure |
babies | thousand | towel | celebration | continent |
might | handle | imagine | exact | ounce |
Click here for a PDF file of the above 4th grade spelling bee words.
Spelling Bee Words – Fifth Grade
cancel | guard | holiday | headache | bargain |
furnace | suggest | squeeze | solemn | author |
dangerous | terrible | treasure | missile | courage |
towel | celebration | continent | straightforward | extinct |
imagine | exact | ounce | octopus | consonant |
coffee | avenue | specialty | senator | population |
laundry | semifinal | examine | exercise | enormous |
surround | brighten | piano | strengthen | sculpture |
urgent | receive | estimate | diamond | calories |
thought | plural | cabbage | applause | beautiful |
Click here for a PDF file of the above 5th grade spelling bee words.
Spelling Bee Words – Sixth Grade
specialty | senator | population | routine | guidance |
examine | exercise | enormous | fertilize | velocity |
piano | strengthen | sculpture | casserole | denominator |
estimate | diamond | calories | mildew | accurate |
cabbage | applause | beautiful | punctuation | monarch |
headache | bargain | chemical | artificial | pharmacy |
solemn | author | tolerant | centipede | condemn |
missile | courage | successful | dynamite | tutor |
straightforward | extinct | commentary | apology | article |
octopus | consonant | significant | immature | faucet |
Click here for a PDF file of the above sixth grade spelling bee words.
Through competitive games, spelling bees motivate children to study difficult words which increase their spelling skills and vocabulary.
Juliet Dalisay says
thanks for the very informative info…
amelia says
the best this is helping my children learn lots they have all got A’s in their report thanx
Marie Lo says
This was a little helpful because my 4th Grade daughter already knows the 6th Graders words. I think that the words should be more advanced.