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 | |||
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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 |
Curtis McVay says
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?
dkbossard says
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.