4th Grade Spelling Words
Welcome to our section for 4th Grade Spelling Words! This spelling program consists of 36 weeks of structured lessons, each focusing on specific phonetic patterns, blends, or rules and phonics skills. The program begins with vowel and consonant pattern review in Weeks 1-6, followed by syllable division review in Weeks 7-9. Weeks 10-12 cover words ending in V or J sounds, while Weeks 13-15 deal with suffix additions. Weeks 16-21 focus on possessives, irregular past form, and plurals. In Weeks 22-27, students learn about compound words and Latin or Greek roots, and in Weeks 28-33, they cover less common prefixes and suffixes. The program concludes with lessons on “schwa” vowel sound words in Weeks 34-36.
You’ll find printable lists below for each week. If you’re working on 4th grade spelling words with your child at home, consider trying a few fun activities to reinforce learning. For example, you might try the following:
- Word Scramble: Rearrange the letters of each 4th grade spelling word and have your child unscramble them.
- Word Hunt: Ask your child to find the spelling words in a magazine, book, or online. This will help your child to recognize the words and also reinforce their spelling skills.
- Flash Cards: This is always a great way to reinforce learning. Write each word on a flash card, or have your child write the words. Then, have your child spell each word out loud. If your child spelled the word correctly, put the card in a “correct” pile. If they spelled it incorrectly, put the card in an “incorrect” pile. Rinse and repeat!
First 9 Weeks (1-9) Printable Word Lists
The spelling list for week 1 focuses on vowel pattern view for long vowels, such as: repaid, knead, obey, and fruit. Bonus words are: mistletoe, nineteen, and brainstem.
Week 2 focuses on diphthongs, such as: autumn, voice, employ, and because. Bonus words are: laundromat, daughter, and annoyed.
Week 3 focuses on R-controlled vowels, such as: carport, marbles, spider, and before. Bonus words are: furniture, figured, and surprising.
Week 4 focuses on blends and digraphs, such as: tract, whooped, scent, and sixty. Bonus words are: traction, phobia, and waft.
Week 5 focuses on "mb" and "gn" words, such as: sign, thumbed, climbing, and assignment. Bonus words are: limbic, clamber, and redesign.
Week 6 focuses on "kn" and "wr" consonant patterns, such as: wrong, knock, knack, and wreath. Bonus words are: knapsack, wrinkled, and knowingly.
Week 7 focuses on short and long VccV words, such as: reflex, zebra, velvet, and sudden. Bonus words are: putrid, numbered, objection.
Week 8 focuses on short and long VCV words, such as: apex, lemon, novel, and secret. Bonus words are: propeller, basically, and hazardous.
Week 9 focuses on syllable division, such as: monster, landlord, instruct, and conflict. Bonus words are: technology and construction.
Second 9 Weeks (10-18) Printable Word Lists
Week 10 focuses on words ending in "-ve" or "-ves", such as: glove, wave, grave, and knives. Bonus words are: relative, achieve, and swerve.
Week 11 focuses on "-dge" ending words, such as: badge, edge, fridge, and smudge. Bonus words are: dredge, hedgehog, and privilege.
Week 12 focuses on "j" and "v" ending sounds, such as: strive, village, fledge, and nerve. Bonus words: creative, objective, and stooge.
Week 13 focuses on double consonants, such as: kitted, shopped, chopping, and planning. Bonus words are: rewrapped, transferring, and marvelling.
Week 14 focuses on silent "e" words, such as: scathed, deciding, inviting, and grating. Bonus words are: undecided, reciting, and dictated.
Week 15 focuses on "y to i" suffix rules, such as: tried, prettier, carrier, and friendlier. Bonus words are: beautiful, earliest, and libraries.
Week 16 focuses on possessives, such as: mother's, child's, America's, and painter's. Bonus words are: octopus', moose's, and cactus'.
Week 17 focuses on plurals, such as: heroes, wolves, sheep, and countries. Bonus words are: moose, potatoes, and roofs.
Week 18 focuses on plural possessives, such as: glasses', trucks', mice's, and women's. Bonus words are: moose's, octopi's, and cacti's.
Third 9 Weeks (19-27) Printable Word Lists
Week 19 focuses on compound words, such as: skylight, earache, afternoon, and elsewhere. Bonus words are: starstruck, authorship, and bookkeeper.
Week 20 focuses on hyphenated compound words, such as: lip-sync, one-up, blow-dry, and fast-forward. Bonus words are: editor-in-chief, merry-go-round, and father-in-law.
Week 21 focuses on compound words, such as: two-week, background, quick-witted, and cattail. Bonus words are: once-in-a-lifetime and chickpea.
Week 22 focuses on irregular past tense words, such as knew/known, flew/flown, lay/lain, and blew/blown. Bonus words are: overtook/overtaken, rode/ridden, rose/risen.
Week 23 focuses on irregular past tense words, such as: saw/seen, shrank/shrunk, wrote/written, sewed/sewn. Bonus words are: understood/understood, wrung/wrung, wove/woven.
Week 24 focuses on irregular plural nouns, such as: buffalo, knives, children, criteria. Bonus words are: radii, crises, and phenomena.
Week 25 focuses on Greek root words, such as: antifreeze, exotic, strategy, and dynamite. Bonus words are: rhythm and bibliography.
Week 26 focuses on Latin root words, such as: dentist, aquarium, central, and maternal. Bonus words are: television and introspect.
Week 27 focuses on Greek and Latin root words, such as: antacid, television, hyperactive, and sociology. Bonus words are: dysfunction, neuroscience, and monolingual.
Fourth 9 Weeks (28-36) Printable Word Lists
The spelling list for week 28 focuses on less common prefix words, such as: hindsight, astronaut, ambidextrous, and empower. Bonus words are: ambivalent, panorama, and international.
Week 29 focuses on less common prefixes in words, such as: pedestrian, ultraviolet, unicycle, and uplift. Bonus words are: surreal and ultrasonic.
Week 30 focuses on less common prefixes in words, such as: underperform, embrace, astronomy, and ambiguity. Bonus words are: monochrome and ambiguous.
Week 31 focuses on less common suffixes in words, such as: kitchenette, economics, puppy, and booklet. Bonus words are: calculus and salmonella.
Week 32 focuses on less common suffixes in words, such as: democracy, velocity, cardiac, and athletic. Bonus words are: poetic and tenacity.
Week 33 focuses on less common suffixes in words, such as: transcribe, forward, backward, and clockwise. Bonus words are: adulthood, centrifugal, and worrisome.
Week 34 focuses on words with schwa, such as: analysis, away, problem, and balloon. Bonus words are: although, system, and company.
Week 35 focuses on words with schwa, such as: upon, difficult, general, and second. Bonus words are: development and international.
Week 36 focuses on words with schwa, such as: evidence, human, open, and award. Bonus words are: security, attention, and environment.