5th Grade “Personal” Spelling Words
Our fifth grade spelling program contains 3 components: personal words, exploration words and content words. Each category contains 5 words for a total of 15 spelling words.
5th Grade “Personal” Spelling Words List
If a child does not have any or only a few misspelled words on his writing assignments, he would select from the list below. A child should select words that will challenge her.
| 5th Grade Personal Spelling Words | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| absence | criticize | nickel | restaurant |
| ache | eligible | ninety | rough |
| accomplish | embarrass | notable | scheme |
| across | especially | occasion | separate |
| already | explanation | occurrence | sincerely |
| although | February | opinion | surprise |
| amateur | fourth | parallel | thorough |
| argue | forty | peculiar | though |
| athlete | grateful | privilege | thought |
| awkward | humorous | probably | through |
| because | interrupt | quiet | tragedy |
| beneficial | invisible | quit | truly |
| calendar | loose | quite | weigh |
| category | maneuver | receive | weird |
| changeable | necessary | recommend | woman |
| cousin | |||
I am beginning to explore the possibility of my fifth graders each having a personal spelling list next year. How do you manage this without it becoming a huge headache? Can you use Spelling City if there is not already a list in SC? Can students create their own lists?
Each student manages his/her 15 spelling words. On Friday, buddy tests are performed to determine if a child can correctly spell their words. The spelling buddy is selected based on location – ideally two students who sit across from each other would be spelling buddies.