SpellingSept. 22-Dec. 21

Helpful hints

• This Powerpoint is NOT meant to tell you everything. It is meant to give you helpful

hints about what is important in your weekly spelling sort and to help you place your words

in their correct categories. Some of the weekly lists (sorts) you will really need to work

on and think about.• Always ask in class if you have a question!

Abbreviations & Explanations• OB = oddball– These are words that don’t fit the other categories,

for one reason or another. Often they have different vowels, consonants, or they break a rule.

• Base = this means the root word– If you take away prefixes and suffixes, the root

word is the base word.• /k/ = if you see a letter in between slanted

lines, that means “this letter SOUNDS like a k” even if it is NOT a K.

SpellingSept. 22-Oct. 3

Yellow Group 36

kn gn wr OBknife gnat wrap rap

wring ring

Green Group 46

Re Un Oddball

rebuild unable reptile

uncle

Blue Group 14

Base -ct -tion Base -ss -sioncollect collection express expression

SpellingOct. 3-10

Yellow Group 37

scr str spr OBscreen strong spring NONE

Green Group 47

dis mis pre Oddball

disagree misspell preschool precious

“not” “do wrongly” “before”

Blue Group 15Base -t -ion Base -ic -ian

invent invention magic magician

(a verb… …changed to a noun)

(A noun) (people who do that noun!)

SpellingOct. 10-17

Yellow Group 38

thr shr squ OBthree shred square None

Green Group 48 – PREFIXES!

ex- non- in- fore-

exit nonsense incorrect forecast

“out” or “beyond”

“not” 1) “not” or2) “into”

“before” or “in front of”

Blue Group 16Base -te e-drop + -ion

Base –de/d

-d >sion

operate operation explode explosion

(a verb… …changed to a noun)

(a verb… …changed to a noun)

SpellingOct. 17-24

Yellow Group REVIEW (after 38)squ thr shr scr spr strsquare throw shred scrape spread straw

Green Group 49uni- bi- tri- other

unicycle bicycle tricycle pentagon

united bilingual triplet

“out” or “beyond”

“not” 1) “not” or2) “into”

“before” or “in front of”

Blue Group 17 – nouns with ion endings)

-ation -e-drop cation itioninformation organization application addition

(change the “y” to an “i” and

add-cation

SpellingOct. 24-Nov. 7

Yellow Group 39Soft c

/s/Soft g

/j/city gym

These words have a “c” or “g” followed by e, y, or i

Hard c /k/

Hard g/g/

card gave

These words have a “c” or “g” followed by a, o, or u

Green Group 50 – SUFFIXES!-y -ly -ily

sunny slowly happily

(changes a noun like “sun” into an

adjective “sunny”)

(changes an adjective like “slow”

into an adverb “slowly”

(changes an adjective ending in

a Y like “happy” into an adverb, “happily”)

Blue Group 18 – New Unit!

silent sounded silent sounded

sign signature hasten haste

bomb bombard moisten moist

soften soft

These go from shorter word to longer word.

These go from longer word to shorter word

SpellingNov. 7-14

Yellow Group 40 – Final letters-ve -ce

/s/-se

/s/ /z/-ze/z/

move chance loose please freeze

Green Group 51 –SUFFIXES that compare

-er -est -ier -iest

braver bravest happier happiest

“more than” “most” “more than” “most”

When a word ends in “y”, change the y to an i before

adding -est.

Blue Group 19Long vowel Short vowel

please pleasant

mine mineral

nature natural

SpellingNov. 14-21

Yellow Group 41

dge ge r, l, n + geedge age large

Green Group 52 – SUFFIXES!

-ness -ful -less Combo

darkness graceful homeless carelessness

“State of being”

“full of” or “having”

“without”

Blue Group 20Long

VowelSchwaǝ = uh

compōse composition

Long vowel

short vowel

volcāno volcănic

SpellingNov. 21-Dec. 5

Yellow Group 42tch ch r, l, n + ch O.B.catch reach lunch which

rich

much

(Short vowel

sounds)

(Long vowel

sounds)

(Short vowel sounds)

Green Group 53 – New unitHomophones – no sorts! (But you have to know which meaning is spelled which way!)

berry cellar

weather allowed

vary flour

bored metal

Blue Group 21-ǝl

(uhl)-ity

personal personality

hostile hostility

mental

mobile

SpellingDec. 5-12

Yellow Group 43

A- Be-away because

around become

Notice many of these words have root words or base words!

Green Group 54 - Homographs

Noun Verb

present present

desert desert

record record

Blue Group 22Long short

suff ī ce suff ĭ cient

Long schwa ǝ (uh)pres īde pres i dent

short schwa ǝ (uh)met a llic met al

SpellingDec. 12-19

Yellow Group 36 - Contractions

not is have willcouldn’t who’s could’ve they’ll

Green Group 55 – “i before e, except after c”

ie = long -e

ei = long -e

cei = long -e

ei = long -a

Oddball

thief seize receive neighbor mischief (vowel sound)

weird weigh

either

neither

Blue Group 23Base -ai derived -

ationBase -e derived -

ptionexclaim exclamation assume assumption

proclaim proclamation

Do you notice what letter is dropped?

Do you notice what letters are changed or added?