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4 Grade Master Spelling Lists

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3
Sight words, schwa n, and academic Sight words, schwa n, and academic Sight words, schwa n, and academic
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
1. rolled 1. yourself 1. usually
2. fingers 2. maybe 2. character
3. except 3. problem 3. friends
4. speed 4. complete 4. whom
5. couldn't 5. rather 5. heard
6. questions 6. crowd 6. order
7. catch 7. since 7. villain
8. itself 8. fresh 8. basin
9. mark 9. piece 9. carton
10. button 10. contemplate 10. become
11. bargain 11. shiny 11. pumpkin
12. specific 12. response 12. summarize
13. quantity 13. support 13. infer
14. erroneous 14. revise 14. compare
15. immaculate 15. explain 15. evaluate
16. champion 16. irrelevant 16. motion
17. ad 17. aisle 17. allowed
18. add 18. isle 18. aloud
19. affect 19. threw 19. ant
20. effect 20. though 20. aunt

Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 6

Sight words, al/il, and academic Sight words, al/il, and academic Sight words, ile/il, and academic
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
1. twelve 1. hours 1. thirty
2. proverb 2. twenty 2. synonym
3. across 3. products 3. antonym
4. today 4. happened 4. usefulness
5. during 5. whine 5. covered
6. metaphor 6. measure 6. anyone
7. simile 7. remember 7. several
8. quiz 8. early 8. juvenile
9. however 9. utensil 9. reptile
10. proposal 10. mortal 10. toward
11. bridal 11. vocal 11. fragile
12.formulate 12. investigate 12. develop
13. analyze 13. justify 13. fact
14. describe 14. specific 14. event
15. incomplete 15. opinion 15. group
16. sparkle 16. vibrant 16. juicy
17. principal 17. wait 17. wring
18. principle 18. weight 18. ring
19. creak 19. scent 19. your
20. creek 20. sent 20. you’re
  
 
Unit 7 Unit 8 Unit 9
Sight words, -al/-el, and academic Sight words, -le pattern, and academic Sight words academic vocabulary
vocabulary vocabulary 1. usually
1. extend 1. vegetable 2. character
2. keyboard 2. tomatoes 3. friends
3. monitor 3. slowly 4. whom
4. vowel 4. potato 5. heard
5. portal 5. carrot 6. order
6. tunnel 6. onion 7. villain
7. against 7. jungle 8. basin
8. numerical 8. crumble 9. carton
9. fatal 9. voice 10. become
10. oval 10. puzzle 11. pumpkin
11. towel 11. ankle 12. conclude
12. conclusion 12. freckle 13. edit
13. consider 13. knuckle 14. prewrite
14. design 14. camouflage 15.draft
15. detail 15. hibernate 16. amazed
16. muscular 16. controlling 17. board
17. ate 17. be 18. bored
18. eight 18. bee 19. brake
19. ball 19. blew 20. break
20. bawl 20. blue

Unit 10 Unit 11 Unit 12

Sight words academic vocabulary Sight words academic vocabulary Sight words and academic vocabulary
1. twelve 1. hours 1. thirty
2. proverb 2. twenty 2. synonym
3. across 3. products 3. antonym
4. today 4. happened 4. usefulness
5. during 5. whine 5. covered
6. metaphor 6. measure 6. anyone
7. simile 7. remember 7. several
8. quiz 8. early 8. juvenile
9. however 9. utensil 9. reptile
10. proposal 10. mortal 10. toward
11. bridal 11. vocal 11. fragile
12. dialogue 12. neutral 12. hostile
13. beautiful 13. thrive 13. tonsil
14. terrible 14. council 14. depend
15. hemisphere 15. nutrients 15. destroyed
16. their 16. too 16. discover
17. there 17. two 17. close
18. they’re 18. to 18. clothes
19. then 19. ad 19. die
20. than 20. add 20. dye
  
 
Unit 13 Unit 14 Unit 15
Sight words, -ure pattern, and academic Sight words, -ure pattern, and academic Sight words, -et pattern, and academic
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
1. rolled 1. yourself 1. sixteen
2. fingers 2. maybe 2. chicken
3. except 3. problem 3. elephant
4. speed 4. complete 4. island
5. couldn't 5. rather 5. gorilla
6. questions 6. crowd 6. dolphin
7. catch 7. since 7. machine
8. itself 8. fresh 8. ticket
9. mark 9. piece 9. diet
10. button 10. children 10. puppet
11. bargain 11. heaven 11. banquet
12. certain 12. satin 12. gadget
13. orphan 13. penguin 13. musket
14. fountain 14. ecosystem 14. fluorescent
15. absolute 15. organism 15. strike
16. four 16. hairy 16. exclusion
17. for 17. groan 17. hair
18. fore 18. grown 18. hare
19. knew 19. guessed 19. he’ll
20. new 20. guest 20. heal

Unit 16 Unit 17 Unit 18

Sight words, -it pattern, and academic Sight words, -age pattern, and academic Sight words, -edge/-idge patterns, and
vocabulary vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. sixty 1. academic 1. seventy
2. system 2. college 2. rhombus
3. buffalo 3. university 3. equation
4. monkey 4. explain 4. average
5. alligator 5. adage 5. government
6. wolves 6. courage 6. filled
7. kangaroo 7. language 7. pledge
8. force 8. luggage 8. bridge
9. brought 9. storage 9. ridge
10. understand 10. thousands 10. wedge
11. audit 11. bandage 11. ledge
12. credit 12. cabbage 12. cartridge
13. hermit 13. carriage 13. partridge
14. vomit 14. damage 14. porridge
15. habit 15. garbage 15. knowledge
16. bandit 16. reservoir 16. navigation
17. hay 17. hi 17. whole
18. hey 18. high 18. hole
19. here 19. hoarse 19. hours
20. hear 20. horse 20. ours
  
 
Unit 19 Unit 20 Unit 21
Sight words, long -o words, and academic Sight words, long -o words, and academic Sight words, short -o words, and
vocabulary vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. object 1. solo 1..positive
2. castle 2. duet 2. negative
3. knight 3. material 3. square
4. queen 4. special 4. syllables
5. prince 5. heavy 5. perhaps
6. kingdom 6. trio 6. hammer
7. alone 7. choir 7. nail
8. ghost 8. axe 8. suddenly
9. robot 9. include 9. chain
10. program 10. homework 10. wrench
11. compose 11. lower 11. adopt
12. coastal 12. bony 12. bother
13. soapy 13. stroller 13. congress
14. toaster 14. decode 14. comment
15. owner 15. molten 15. monster
16. entrepreneur 16. engineer 16. parallel
17. I 17. knight 17. lessen
18. eye 18. night 18. lesson
19. in 19. knot 19. made
20. inn 20. not 20. maid

Unit 22 Unit 23 Unit 24

Sight words, short -u words, and Sight words, long -u words, and academic Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and
academic vocabulary vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. hotel 1. region 1. eighty
2. guest 2. return 2. sheriff
3. ready 3. believe 3. rodeo
4. anything 4. joined 4. exercise
5. elevator 5. members 5. wagon
6. generalize 6. contest 6. train
7. energy 7. reject 7. railroad
8. subject 8. cells 8. saddle
9. Europe 9. universe 9. calf
10. umbrella 10. computer 10. developed
11. bubble 11. abuse 11. alarm
12. husband 12. lukewarm 12. carbon
13. bucket 13. salute 13. charcoal
14. publish 14. rumor 14. marble
15. snuggle 15. tutor 15. scarlet
16. inflation 16. actor 16. aurora
17. mail 17. meat 17. pear
18. male 18. meet 18. pair
19. marry 19. one 19. pause
20. merry 20. won 20. paws
  
 
Unit 25 Unit 26 Unit 27
Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and Sight words, -oo/-ew words, and Sight words, -oo words, and academic
academic vocabulary academic vocabulary vocabulary
1. window 1. actress 1. factors
2. difference 2. theatre 2. result
3. eighteen 3. solve 3. camera
4. heart 4. appear 4. video
5. site 5. metal 5. image
6. burning 6. dramatic 6. frame
7. corner 7. either 7. movies
8. harmfully 8. neither 8. zoom
9. curtain 9. goose 9. cookies
10. probably 10. village 10. neighborhood
11. parsley 11. aloof 11. flooding
12. tardy 12. moody 12. cookout
13. tariff 13. raccoon 13. footprint
14. prairie 14. askew 14. woodland
15. barrel 15. jewel 15. mistook
16. ray 16. moose 16. spooky
17. piece 17. poor 17. read
18. peace 18. pour 18. red
19. plain 19. principal 19. write
20. plane 20. principle 20. right

Unit 28 Unit 29 Unit 30

Sight words, -shun sound, and academic Sight words, -shun sound, and academic Sight words, -shun sound, and academic
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
1. decade 1. orange 1. temperature
2. century 2. banana 2. mirror
3. outside 3. grapefruit 3.vbreeze
4. everything 4. pineapple 4. calm
5. release 5. strawberry 5. method
6. already 6. laughed 6. section
7. instead 7. lemon 7. devotion
8. phrase 8. quite 8. infection
9. distraction 9. type 9. within
10. completion 10. themselves 10. dictionary
11. affection 11. protection 11. digestion
12. collection 12. reaction 12. disruption
13. construction 13. compassion 13. invention
14. fraction 14. adoption 14. prevention
15. inspection 15. corruption 15. suggestion
16. inaccurate 16. illiterate 16. immobile
17. rose 17. sum 17. sew
18. rows 18. some 18. so
19. sale 19. sea 19. son
20. sail 20. see 20. sun
  
 

Studying Tips:
 
 
Say the word – night Write the word – night  
-Say each syllable if there are more than one.

Give Meaning
Stretch the word – /nnn-iii-t-t-t/ What does ______ mean? When it's dark out.
Work by syllables if necessary.
If a sound can't be stretched, stutter it. Here's a shortcut version of the
strategies for studying spelling words:
Split up the sounds.

1. Say
Work by syllables if necessary.
First sound? /n/

2.Stretch
Next sound? /i/
Last sound? /t/

3.Split up
On the first blank, write the letters – n __ __
On the next blank, write the next letters – n igh __

4. Count
On the last blank, write the last letters – n igh t
If there are silent letters, caret them in.

5.Draw blanks
Count
6.Record
the sounds. 3  

Draw blanks ___ ___ ___

-The blanks stand for the sounds. 7.Study
8.Write
-Put slashes between syllables if necessary.
-Next, help the student learn the spelling.

Record the spelling sound by sound.   9.Give meaning

Study the spelling.
Ask, what does [the pattern] say? In our Excerpted and adapted from: Murray, B. (1999). How to Study Spelling

example, what does igh say? Only ask Words. The Reading Genie, Auburn University.

about tricky parts.