Grade 6 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. Common and Proper Nouns
• 2. Spelling Words as They Sound
• 3. Silent Consonants
• 4. Final "e"
• 5. Long Vowel Combinations
• 6. Review

• 7. Double Consonants
• 8. Dividing Words Between Consonants
• 9. Words Beginning with ad, com, con, or per
• 10. Dividing Long-Vowel Words after the Long Vowel
• 11. Words with re, de, pre, or pro
• 12. Review

• 13. More Vowel Combinations
• 14. Forming Plurals
• 15. Homonyms and Words Often Confused
• 16. Using the Schwa (ə)
• 17. Using "q", "w", "x" and "z"
• 18. Review

• 19. Adding Suffixes
• 20. Using "y" as a Vowel
• 21. Adding Suffixes to Ending "y"
• 22. Endings That Sound Alike
• 23. More Endings That Sound Alike
• 24. Review

• 25. Vowel-r: ėr or ər
• 26. More Vowel-r Sounds: ar, är, ir, and ȯr
• 27. Ending "ry"
• 28. Words Ending with a Vowel
• 29. Less Common Spellings
• 30. Review

• 31. Spellings of the "k" and "kw" Sounds
• 32. Spellings of the "sh" Sound
• 33. Spellings of the "ch" Sound
• 34. Spellings of the "s" Sound
• 35. Spellings of the "j" Sound
• 36. Review

• Spelling Tests

Word Lists:

• 1. companion; slave; Gethsemane; canyon; Negro; Sunday; president; accident; range; Indiana; factory; holiday; Africa; advertisement; college; salesman; Sabbath; Mississippi; chicken pox; continent
• 2. jam; rim; asks; flung; limit; dentist; admit; forth; sash; mend; thrust; depth; mumps; film; drag; hem; strap; rid; infect; fled
• 3. bough; naughty; wholesale; wrench; assign; debtor; frighten; neighborhood; balk; wrapper; depot; tomb; column; knowledge; trestle; sought; delight; kneel; straighten; design
• 4. confinement; wasteful; closely; refinement; purely; graceful; hopeful; amusement; rarely; arrangement; stroke; blame; dine; arrive; haste; phone; devote; locate; cure; price
• 5. degree; loan; appeal; daily; grieve; maintain; betray; growth; apiece; complaint; juicy; breezes; weaving; bruised; greasy; believing; praised; deceiving; breathing; sneezing
• 6. [review]

• 7. blizzard; traffic; hollow; afford; moss; pattern; wholly; borrow; occur; attic; effect; surround; canned; common; swallow; folly; pennies; gossip; offend; manner
• 8. carpet; furnace; mention; transit; wrestle; banking; concern; mantle; quarter; utmost; width; baptized; fortune; orbit; suspect; trusted; combine; furnish; method; velvet
• 9. person; perfect; comfort; Congress; advise; admire; confuse; consent; compass; per cent; permit; adjust; connect; comply; perform; compare; advice; contain; conduct; advance
• 10. beauty; equal; tasteful; item; native; agent; beyond; evil; humor; local; private; basis; cedar; famous; iron; motive; virus; data; fever; writer
• 11. recite; repair; declare; prefer; destroy; record; reveal; presume; protrude; desire; present; device; relief; review; protein; prepare; devise; request; protract; reserve
• 12. [review]

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