5th Grade Master Spelling List

Week 1 Week 3 Week 5 Week 7

Sight words, suffix -ant, and Sight words, suffix -able, Sight words, suffix -able, and Sight words, “shun” words, and
academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary academic vocabulary academic vocabulary

1. possibility 1. continent 1. beetle 1. February

2. grasp 2. Africa 2. jewelry 2. entrance
3. comic 3. killed 3. avenue 3. valley
4. quiet 4. melody 4. climbed 4. freight
5. feast 5. bottom 5. wrote 5. discard
6. sheepish 6. register 6. youth 6. president
7. betray 7. sleeve 7. continued 7. aware
8. defendant 8. infant 8. launch 8. trouble
9. immigrant 9. eagle 9. debate 9. situation
10. irritant 10. layer 10. plains 10.station
11. assistant 11. desirable 11. adaptable 11. description
12. brilliant 12. excitable 12. allowable 12. prescription
13. compliant 13. breakable 13. comfortable 13. subscription
14. extravagant 14. notable 14. distinguishable 14. condition
15. ignorant 15. tolerable 15. preferable 15. introduction
16. artifact 16. religion 16. membrane 16. technique
17. migration 17. tradition 17. transportation 17. divisible
18. nomad 18. ceremony 18. active 18. array
19. adapt 19.customary 19. passive 19. composite
20. agriculture 20. folklore 20. inverse 20. factorization
21. rounding 21. organ 21. regroup 21. greatest
Week 2 Week 4 Week 6 Week 8
Sight words, suffix -ent, and Sight words, suffix -ible, and Sight words, number-related, Sight words, “shun” words, and
academic vocabulary academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. wobble 1. surprise 1. January 1. April
2. ashamed 2. French 2. England 2. coward
3. consonant 3. hesitate 3. route 3. symbols
4. someone 4. sway 4. design 4. loyal
5. shovel 5. exactly 5. bruise 5. application
6. wheelbarrow 6. remain 6. awkward 6. beckon
7. hedges 7. beige 7. billion 7. saucer
8. wonder 8. breathe 8. triple 8. admission
9. smiled 9. succeed 9. bicycle 9. politician
10. angle 10. horrible 10. octave 10. drawing
11. absent 11. tangible 11. pentameter 11. recession
12. decadent 12. gullible 12. quadruple 12. concession
13. excellent 13. possible 13. unique 13. deception
14. frequent 14. permissible 14. quadriceps 14. production
15. impatient 15. comprehensible 15. uniform 15. reduction
16. cell 16. invisible 16. interact 16. chlorophyll
17. cytoplasm 17. tissue 17. specialize 17. chloroplast
18. organelle 18. function 18. surplus 18. activate
19. diffusion 19. specific 19. barter 19. photosynthesis
20. osmosis 20. mitochondria 20. economy 20. stomata
21. respiration 21. glucose 21. cultural 21. vascular

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 5th Grade Master Spelling List
Week 9 Week 11 Week 13 Week 15
Sight words, altered sound, Sight words, altered sound, Sight words, homographs, Sight words, plural changes,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary

1. June 1. suppose 1. direct 1. supply

2. choose 2. August 2. October 2. December
3. single 3. coast 3. squirm 3. mentor
4. novel 4. menu 4. scissors 4. insects
5. information 5. period 5. desert 5. internal
6. express 6. autumn 6. increase 6. external
7. crimson 7. journey 7. convict 7. index
8. ancestor 8. flavor 8. finance 8. indices
9. further 9. substantial 9. wound 9. doctor
10. elasticity 10. spatial 10. business 10. provide
11. authenticity 11. essential 11. separate 11. fungus
12. criticize 12. inferential 12. approximate 12. fungi
13. electricity 13. influential 13. estimate 13. hippopotamus
14. publicity 14. palatial 14. associate 14. hippopotami
15. partial 15. residential 15. certificate 15. octopus
16. transpiration 16. artery 16. navigation 16. octopi
17. xylem 17. vein 17. convert 17. tributary
18. phloem 18. circulatory 18. emperor 18. mission
19. pigment 19. capillary 19. circumnavigation 19. slavery
20. absorb 20. chamber 20. cartographer 20. trading
21. evaporate 21. ventricle 21. colony 21. charter

Week 10 Week 12 Week 14 Week 16

Sight words, altered sound, Sight words, homographs, Sight words, plural changes, Sight words, double w/-ed,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary

1. July 1. September 1. category 1. thus

2. control 2. received 2. November 2. Asia
3. practice 3. worthwhile 3. library 3. ignore
4. naughty 4. dairy 4. hospital 4. chapter
5. straight 5. strange 5. restaurant 5. mall
6. comet 6. caught 6. clinic 6. volunteer
7. statement 7. haunted 7. students 7. modern
8. meteor 8. lawyer 8. human 8. compound
9. galaxy 9. God 9. shelf 9. grinned
10. ethnicity 10. captain 10. shelves 10.plugged
11. commercial 11. advocate 11. alumnus 11. admitted
12. financial 12. alternate 12. alumni 12. controlled
13. racial 13. animate 13. cactus 13. permitted
14. sacrificial 14. articulate 14. cacti 14. referred
15. circumstantial 15. graduate 15. nucleus 15. inferred
16. process 16. latitude 16. nuclei 16. settlement
17. rely 17. longitude 17. reform 17. exponent
18. cohesion 18. magnetic 18. esophagus 18. notation
19. gravity 19. compass 19. digestive 19. exponent
20. respiratory 20. expedition 20. intestine 20. regularly
21. interdependent 21. entrepreneur 21. stomach 21. standard

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 5th Grade Master Spelling List
Week 17 Week 19
Sight words, double w/-ing, Sight words, polysyllabic -
and academic vocabulary ing, and academic
vocabulary
Week 21 Week 23
Sight words, polysyllabic w/ Sight words, prefix com-,
suffix, and academic and academic vocabulary
vocabulary

1. Australia 1. sense 1. position 1. Spain

2. scowl 2. Canada 2. entered 2. cruel
3. cougar 3. mayor 3. Egypt 3. compression
4. encounter 4. famous 4. laughter 4. needle
5. soldiers 5. senator 5. giggling 5. bothering
6. tremor 6. colonel 6. whispers 6. tragedy
7. silent 7. movement 7. murmur 7. particular
8. strapping 8. upsetting 8. wailing 8. tremble
9. spinning 9. exciting 9. chief 9. communicate
10.stopping 10. branches 10. Japanese 10.comparison
11. forgetting 11. editing 11. measuring 11. combine
12. expelling 12. entering 12. tolerating 12. companion
13. transferring 13. exiting 13. radiating 13.committee
14. equipping 14. limiting 14. replacing 14. commission
15. regretting 15. suffering 15. forbidding 15.completely
16. excretory 16. threatening 16. inquiry 16. desalination
17. bladder 17. multiple 17. scientific 17. groundwater
18. kidney 18. simplify 18. accompany 18. runoff
19. vessel 19. giant 19. ally 19. aquifer
20. sophisticated 20. quotient 20. treaty 20. aqueduct
21. oxygen 21. substitute 21. massacre 21. irrigation
Week 18 Week 20 Week 22 Week 24
Sight words, polysyllabic - Sight words, polysyllabic w/ Sight words, prefix coll-, and
Sight words, prefix ad-, and
ing, and academic suffix, and academic academic vocabulary
academic vocabulary
vocabulary vocabulary
1. Antarctica 1. Mexico 1. Italy 1. Brazil
2. headache 2. instant 2. visual 2. merchant
3. enjoy 3. burglar 3. rhythm 3. shoulder
4. elements 4. museum 4. mischief 4. industry
5. indicate 5. normal 5. freeze 5. conscience
6. throughout 6. contentment 6. major 6. casual
7. expect 7. cloudiness 7. observe 7. sausage
8. exhausting 8. consider 8. trophy 8. cattle
9. mumbling 9. suggested 9. necessary 9. realize
10. interesting 10. illustrated 10. weight 10. quarrel
11. appearing 11. corresponding 11. adhesive 11. collate
12. complaining 12. presenting 12. addict 12.collegiate
13. explaining 13. pronouncing 13. adhere 13. collide
14. developing 14. beginning 14. adjacent 14. colloquial
15. benefiting 15. committing 15. adjourn 15. collusion
16. alveoli 16. divisor 16. connection 16. reservoir
17. dioxide 17. dividend 17. symbol 17. watershed
18. saliva 18. remainder 18. represent 18. conservation
19. obstacles 19. analyze 19. obvious 19. reclamation
20. journal 20. unpredictable 20. reasonableness 20. assimilate
21. conflict 21. collectively 21. interpret 21. rivalry

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 5th Grade Master Spelling List
Week 25 Week 27 Week 29 Week 31
Sight words, prefix dis-, and Sight words, prefix ob-, and Sight words, suffix -ology, Sight words, Greek root aero,
academic vocabulary academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary

1. company 1. France 1. Venus 1. pleasant

2. radio 2. repeated 2. passage 2. Washington
3. China 3. column 3. merciless 3. Greek
4. genuine 4. western 4. afraid 4. Saturn
5. capital 5. violin 5. article 5. arbor
6. factories 6. piano 6. adverb 6. orchard
7. patriot 7. trumpet 7. adjective 7. foliage
8. appreciate 8. plural 8. conjunction 8. northern
9. channel 9. various 9. subordinate 9. create
10. southern 10. oblique 10. preposition 10. British
11. disadvantage 11. oblong 11. biology 11. aeronautics
12. dissatisfied 12. obstruct 12. archaeology 12. aerobics
13. dislike 13. oblige 13. technology 13. aerodynamic
14. disappoint 14. obnoxious 14. pathology 14. aerosol
15. disapprove 15. obsessed 15. mythology 15. aerospace
16. condensation 16. environment 16.terminology 16. dissenter
17. evaporation 17. contrast 17. zoology 17. pilgrim
18. precipitation 18. misconception 18. saturated 18. persecution
19. vapor 19. convection 19.formation 19. intolerant
20. seep 20.unevenly 20. stalagmite 20. numerator
21. glacier 21. humidity 21. stalactite 21. denominator
Week 26 Week 28 Week 30 Week 32
Sight words, prefix in-, and Sight words, prefix sub-, and Sight words, suffix -ology, Sight words, Greek root ambi,
academic vocabulary academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
1. Germany 1. opposite 1. Jupiter 1. difficult
2. knitting 2. Mercury 2. similar 2. Uranus
3. printed 3. media 3. fossil 3. oboe
4. wouldn’t 4. prepared 4. rehearse 4. trombone
5. ahead 5. plentiful 5. victory 5. cello
6. terrified 6. solution 6. stretched 6. clarinet
7. loveliest 7. apostrophe 7. experience 7. guitar
8. level 8. comma 8. serious 8. banjo
9. noisily 9. exclamation 9. allow 9. evening
10. molecules 10. especially 10. chronology 10. ridiculous
11. inaccurate 11. subdivision 11. meteorology 11. ambidextrous
12. inefficient 12. subheading 12. sociology 12. ambivalent
13. ineffective 13. submarine 13. psychology 13. ambient
14. insecure 14. subcommittee 14. theology 14. ambiguity
15. inadequate 15. submerge 15. geology 15. ambition
16. equivalent 16. multiplicative 16. erosion 16. nitrogen
17. multiplying 17. dew 17. weathering 17. atmosphere
18. hundredth 18.indigo 18. dissolve 18. troposphere
19. thousandth 19. capacity 19. sediment 19. mesosphere
20. tenth 20. indentured 20. deposition 20. thermosphere
21. millionth 21. servant 21. deposit 21. stratosphere

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 5th Grade Master Spelling List
Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36
Sight words, Greek root Sight words, Greek root ann/ Sight words, Gk Roots audi/ Sight words, Gk Roots graph/
anti, and academic enn, and academic astro, and academic fract, and academic
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
1. Neptune 1. Mississippi 1. auditorium 1. autograph
2. apology 2. tracks 2. auditory 2. biography
3. performance 3. arrived 3. audience 3. autobiography
4. details 4. located 4. audiometer 4. graphic
5. entire 5. soprano 5. audition 5. Columbia
6. explanation 6. prejudice 6. audit 6. spinach
7. substances 7. heritage 7. audio 7. lettuce
8. voyage 8. effect 8. audible 8. biographer
9. dozen 9. underline 9. auditor 9. graphite
10. conditions 10. fortress 10. astrolabe 10. fracture
11. antibiotic 11. annual 11. astronaut 11. infraction
12. antiseptic 12. anniversary 12. astrophysics 12. telegraph
13. antithesis 13. centennial 13. astronomical 13.refraction
14. antidote 14. millennium 14. astrology 14. judge
15. antisocial 15. perennial 15. astronomy 15. fringe
16. planetary 16. artisan 16. auction 16. hydrogen
17. altitude 17. apprentice 17. rebel 17. helium
18. diagram 18. meteorologist 18. nuclear 18. photosphere
19. typhoon 19. blizzard 19. fusion 19. nebula
20. cyclone 20. tornado 20. sunspot 20. constitution
21. hurricane 21. intensify 21. gravitational 21. ratify

Choose one spelling activity each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. If the activity
you choose does not produce something you can turn in, write a note explaining what you did, and
turn the note in with your other homework. 13. Read your spelling words out loud in as many different
1. Write your spelling words in alphabetical order.
silly voices as you can think of.
2. Find synonyms for each of your spelling words.
14. Write your spelling words on flashcards. Then choose
3. Write an illustrate a picture book using all of your
one without looking and hold it on your forehead with
spelling words, then read it to a Kindergarten or
the word showing. Ask a friend to give you clues to help
first grade student.
you guess the word.
4. Sort your spelling words into categories based on
15. Write and perform a short skit or readers’ theater that
the similarities you can find between them
uses all of your spelling words.
5. Break your spelling word up into syllables.
16. Put up your favorite song and turn up the volume. Sing
6. Act out your spelling words to make a silent video.
your spelling words along with the music.
See if your classmates can guess the words by
17. Write your spelling words each on two separate flashcards.
watching the video.
Mix them all up and turn them face-down on the table.
7. Shout your words while you jump rope.
Play the memory match game with them
8. Bounce a ball and spell your words to the rhythm.
18. Use rocks, twigs, and leaves to form your spelling words on
9. Write each spelling word using a different color.
the ground outside.
10. Paint your spelling words using paint and a paint
19. Go on a word hunt in your spelling words. Can you find any
brush on paper.
smaller words within your words?
11. Use a stick to scratch your spelling words in the dirt.
20. Count the letters in each spelling word. Write your words
12. Use a whiteboard or chalkboard to write your words.
in order from least to most letters.

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