6th Grade Spelling Unit | Spelling Curriculum | Spelling Lists
About This Product
This is a full year-long spelling curriculum for your sixth graders. Everything you need is included so you can print once and be done and ready for the year! These lists are organized by by spelling rule and pattern. See below for a list of which patterns and rules are taught and practiced. Each list has 10 words by spelling rule and also gives you an opportunity for 5 focus, review, or thematic words. You can choose whether to add thematic words or personal spelling words. There are enough spelling lists for 30 school weeks!
Each Week Includes:
- Teacher resource poster with spelling words and spelling rule/pattern (in color)
- Teacher resource call out page with sentences to read out during the test (so you don't have to think them up on the spot!)
- Weekly cover sheet
- Pretest
- Worksheet to trace each word twice and write each word twice.
- Worksheet to trace each word once and write each word three times.
- Worksheet to read a sentence and circle the correctly spelled word.
- Worksheet to identify the correctly spelled words.
- Spelling test
Also Provided:
Overall 6th Grade Spelling List (So you can see all years' words at a glance!)
Spelling Test Template 2 to a Page (If you'd rather print them smaller!)
Spelling Test Template 1 to a Page
Personal Spelling List Practice Sheet
Extra Spelling Practice Sheet
Spelling Rules and Patterns Included By Week:
Week 1- Short vowel words with one syllable.
Week 2- Soft and hard /g/ sound.
Week 3- Vowel digraphs such as -ou, -oi, -ie, -au, and -oa.
Week 4- Vowel digraphs such as -ou, or -ough.
Week 5- Word endings -nce and -nse.
Week 6- Commonly misspelled words
Week 7- Suffixes such as -ant, -ance, and -ence.
Week 8- Suffixes -al and -ous.
Week 9- Prefixes in-, il-, and ir-.
Week 10- Two syllable words with a vowel/consonant/vowel pattern.
Week 11- Two and three syllable words with a vowel/consonant/-e pattern.
Week 12- Commonly misspelled words
Week 13- Two syllable words that have -ible, -dle, -ple, and -tle as the second syllable.
Week 14- "R-controlled" vowels.
Week 15- Vowel combination -ea and its three sounds.
Week 16- Letter combination -sion.
Week 17- Letter combination -tion.
Week 18- Commonly misspelled words
Week 19- Prefixes pre-, pro-, and de-.
Week 20- Prefixes dis-, mis-, non-, and un-.
Week 21- Suffixes -able and -ible.
Week 22- Homophones
Week 23- Suffixes -ward and -ly.
Week 24- Commonly misspelled words
Week 25- Words that use the suffix -ing and double the first consonant.
Week 26- Words that use the suffix -ed and its three sounds.
Week 27- Plural nouns that end in -y, -f, or -fe.
Week 28- Compound words.
Week 29- Three syllable words.
Week 30- Commonly misspelled words
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