8th Grade Spelling Unit | Spelling Curriculum | Spelling Lists

This amazing spelling curriculum has been designed to provide everything you need for your eighth graders as they study spelling. These lists are organized by by spelling rule and pattern. Common core and other educational standards and recommendations were consulted and used as these lists and activities were compiled. Read below to find out which patterns and rules are studied each week. Each week has 10 words assigned but also provides space for 5 personal words. You can choose whether to add thematic words or review spelling words. This resource includes enough spelling lists to cover 30 school weeks.

Each Week Includes:

- Teacher poster with spelling list and spelling rule or pattern (in color)

- Teacher call out page with example sentences to read out during the test (in color)

- Weekly cover sheet

- Pretest printout

- Spelling worksheet to trace each word twice and write each word twice.

- Spelling worksheet to trace each word once and write each word three times.

- Spelling worksheet to read a sentence and circle the correctly spelled word.

- Spelling worksheet to identify the correctly spelled words.

- Spelling test printout

Also Provided:

8th Grade Spelling Word List Showing all the words for the year

Spelling Test Template 2 to a Page

Spelling Test Template 1 to a Page

Personal Spelling List Practice Sheet

Extra Spelling Practice Sheet

Spelling Rules and Patterns By Week:

Week 1- Words that end with -ent/-ant

Week 2- Vowel -i words

Week 3- Double consonants

Week 4- Homophones

Week 5- Adding an -s to the end of a word

Week 6- Vowel -o words

Week 7- Double consonants

Week 8- Adding a prefix

Week 9- Tricky endings including -ent/-ant, -ence/-ance, and -ery/-ary.

Week 10- Vowel -a words

Week 11- Suffix -ous

Week 12- Homophones

Week 13- Double consonants

Week 14- Double the ending consonant when adding an -ed or -ing

Week 15- Vowel digraphs that get mixed up such as -au/-ua, and -ia /-ai.

Week 16- Words that end with -ar/-or/-er

Week 17- Words with an -ai vowel digraph

Week 18- Verbs in an -ing form

Week 19- Confusing consonants

Week 20- Adding a suffix

Week 21- Words with an -ee or -ea that often get confused

Week 22- Homophones

Week 23- Words that have an -ly ending

Week 24- Silent letters

Week 25- Combing two words to make one, some require changes

Week 26- Words with the vowel combinations -ei and -ie

Week 27- Confusing ends including -le/-el and -age/-ege

Week 28- Consonant blends including -sc and -gh

Week 29- Words that have an -ly ending

Week 30- Commonly misspelled words

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