5th Grade Spelling Unit | Spelling Curriculum | Spelling Lists
About This Product
Equip your 5th graders for spelling success with this comprehensive year-long curriculum spanning 30 weeks of engaging content. Meticulously designed for elementary classrooms and homeschools, it takes students on a spelling adventure grounded in patterns and rules. Each week presents 10 thoughtfully selected words, plus space to add 5 personalized picks – perhaps tied into current themes or trouble spots. This flexibility enables customization while covering essential 5th grade spelling skills.
Strategically organized around spelling patterns like prefixes/suffixes, vowel variants, syllable breaks, and more, the curriculum builds understanding rather than just memorization. Students actively study rules behind why words are spelled certain ways. Over 250 pages of vivid materials simplify planning so you can focus on instruction.
Each weekly package includes a colorful teacher poster modeling that week’s words and spelling pattern, a call-out sheet for test sentences, handy pretest/test templates, and diverse worksheets. Tracing activities, identifying correctly spelled words, circling accurate options or composing original sentences – a variety of approaches promote engaged learning.
Supplementary resources empower further customization: an overall 5th grade spelling list, multiple test templates, personalized practice sheets. This robust spelling adventure aims to make both teaching and learning this vital skill more engaging and effective. Reinforce 5th graders’ language development with an immersive curriculum designed to foster active exploration and deeper understanding.
Spelling Rules and Patterns Included By Week:
Week 1- Words that use the suffix -ant
Week 2- Words that use the suffix -ent
Week 3- Words that use the suffix -able
Week 4- Words that use the suffix -ible
Week 5- Commonly misspelled words
Week 6- Words that have a /shun/ sound spelled with "tion"
Week 7- Words that have a /shun/ sound spelled with "tion"
Week 8- Homographs
Week 9- Homographs
Week 10- Commonly misspelled words
Week 11- Unusual Plurals
Week 12- Unusual Plurals
Week 13- Words with double consonants and an -ed ending
Week 14- Words with double consonants and an -ing ending
Week 15- Commonly misspelled words
Week 16- Polysyllabic words ending with -ing
Week 17- Polysyllabic words ending with -ing
Week 18- Polysyllabic words ending with a suffix ending
Week 19- Polysyllabic words ending with a suffix ending
Week 20- Commonly misspelled words
Week 21- Words with an ad- prefix
Week 22- Words with a com- prefix
Week 23- Words with a coll- prefix
Week 24- Words with a dis- prefix
Week 25- Commonly misspelled words
Week 26- Words with an in- prefix
Week 27- Words with an ob- prefix
Week 28- Words with a sub- prefix
Week 29- Words with an -ology suffix
Week 30- Commonly misspelled words
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