Grade 5 of the Practical Spelling series. 36 weekly lessons designed to help students gain practice in both spelling and handwriting, with minimal teacher involvement.

• To the Teacher...

Contents

• 1. Long and Short Vowel Sounds
• 2. Vowel-r Words
• 3. Various Vowel Sounds
• 4. "ei" or "ie"
• 5. Consonant Blends and Digraphs
• 6. Review

• 7. Nouns
• 8. Verbs
• 9. Adjectives
• 10. Adverbs
• 11. Possessives
• 12. Review

• 13. Compounds
• 14. Contractions
• 15. Synonyms
• 16. Antonyms
• 17. Homonyms
• 18. Review

• 19. Schwa Sound
• 20. gh
• 21. Double Consonants
• 22. Ch
• 23. Words Often Mispronounced
• 24. Review

• 25. Adding Suffixes
• 26. Forming Plurals
• 27. Using Suffixes to Form Nouns
• 28. Using Suffixes to Form Adjectives
• 29. Words with Prefixes
• 30. Review

• 31. Words Easily Confused
• 32. Words From The Kitchen
• 33. Insects
• 34. Animals
• 35. Birds
• 36. Review

• Spelling Tests

Word Lists:

• 1. sail; twist; ruler; tired; self; boast; decay; repeat; mist; understand; mused; risk; thrive; accent; dusty; rod; solid; grasp
• 2. carpenter; worth; worse; target; normal; glare; terror; mirror; cheer; shirts; dollars; honor; afterwards; powder; favor; return; worry; doctor
• 3. drowsy; soot; outlook; yawn; booklet; flaw; stronger; shook; loiter; resume; pout; pronoun; alter; avoid; oblong; soybeans; jewels; moon
• 4. brief; deceive; believe; thief; niece; neither; theirs; weight; either; neighbor; fields; friends; eighth; achieve; fierce; receive; grief; receipt
• 5. chest; swished; whisper; spout; brought; skill; slicing; wither; plural; batch; bathe; plainly; scared; umbrella; pilgrims; trace; protest; click
• 6. [review]

• 7. mishap; reply; radishes; lunch; partner; mistake; automobile; illness; banana; captain; bacon; nickel; salmon; wilderness; zipper; vase; canal; autograph
• 8. beat; burst; gleam; relax; recline; imitate; slice; split; exhale; inhale; scream; invent; laughed; bury; gain; hire; improve; reaching
• 9. wonderful; useful; healthy; restless; truthful; polite; lively; anxious; excited; false; fancy; vain; special; pleasant; formal; frank; sincere; curious
• 10. quietly; clearly; seldom; always; earlier; forward; rudely; together; almost; completely; forever; hereafter; outside; everywhere; elsewhere; tonight; yesterday; later
• 11. states'; pilot's; poets'; nation's; foxes'; group's; clerks'; animals'; policemen's; visitors'; reporter's; enemy's; shepherds'; puppies'; creature's; colonies'; driver's; Americans'
• 12. [review]

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