Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
mumbling
hollering
imitate
mugged
temper tantrum
demonstrate
beckoned
ruin
aisle
peered
Harcourt Trophies (Theme 1) Spelling Words
The Gardener: Words with Long and Short a
played escape thank subway gray
safely
mistake greatest break after
planting scratch
address holiday natural paragraph blanket
capital
taken cabin
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
sprouting chrysanthemum bulbs orchid
dandelion
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Donavan’s Word Jar: Words with Long and Short e
asleep empty queen deal
needed spelling
east feelings tea keeping
beneath agree
elevator coffee suggested method feature
metal
disease television
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
collector collage assortment arrangement
acquire
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
My Name is Maria Isabel: Words with Long and Short i
mine tie wild type
smile drive
size blind visit thick
die prize
fifty picnic arrived decide
child civil
divide library
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
audience backstage performance applause
famous
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man: Words with Long and Short o & u
those coach solid include
crew plus
operate broke upset tune
June floating
plume renew husband honor
smoke conflict
stew thunder
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
accountant recruiter mayor teammate
citizen
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride: Words with /oo/
loop wounded shoot booth
broom boost
mood fooling afternoon room
smooth tooth
raccoon bloomed souvenir routine
roofs loose
coop stoop
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
navigator license aviator copilot
adventurer
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points) Look under "This Week."
Harcourt Trophies (Theme 2) Spelling Words
The Baker’s Neighbor: Words with /ar/
carved garden harm
farther barked alarm
chart starved harder
parked smartest
charge
guard argument hardware
garbage harsh
parts radar harbor
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
tapioca gourmet delicious
delicatessen pastry
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
The Emperor and the Kite: Words with /or/
pour orbit fourth
source sports forward
force order wore
yourself support sore
orange anymore ignore
portrait border course
tornado your
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
emperor monarch kingdom palace
noble
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Nights of the Pufflings: Words with the /ar/ sound
cared dairy unfair
rarely stared dared
glare airplanes barely
farewell software staircase
everywhere declare square
therefore despair
prepared beware repair
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
puffins geyser volcanic
boulder island
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
The Garden of Happiness: Words with /ur/
curve learned curly pearl
purse further
turtle urgent burning hurried
earth earned
purpose surface overheard rehearse
current disturb
furniture research
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
pickax crisscrossed cultivate raspberries
irrigate
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
How to Babysit an Orangutan: Words with /ou/
ground frown downtown bounced
council about
scout counter background amount
bound shower
mountain county thousand allowance
counselor discount
countless rebound
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
orangutan primate rain forest banana
species
Harcourt Trophies (Theme 3) Spelling Words
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Words with /oi/
boiled annoyed choices poison
employer joining
spoiled voices destroyed pointing
avoided enjoying
employee voyage appointed poisonous
foil loyal
noisy disappointed
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
prairie caravan settlers homestead
grassland
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Stealing Home: Words with unusual plurals
shelves sheep teeth elves
mice calves
spacecraft jeans feet women
men geese
salmon series scissors halves
oxen crises
knives thieves
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
acceptance cooperation endure
allowances sympathy
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
The Cricket in Times Square: Possessive Nouns
team’s player’s bird’s wolf’s
horse’s class’s
group’s girls’ students’ trees’
parents’ owners’
cousins’ teachers’ aunts’ friend’s
children’s city’s
classes’ country’s
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
melodious chirping violinist orchestra
musician
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Two Lands, One Heart: Words with Abbreviations
Mt. Mount Dr. Doctor Jan.
January Rte. Route
Rd. Road St. Street Fri.
Friday lb. pound
Ave. Avenue Dec. December tsp. teaspoon
Sat. Saturday
Wed. Wednesday Gov. Governor Pres. President
Hwy. Highway
Sept. September Pkwy. Parkway Sun. Sunday
Mon. Monday
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
refrigerator microwave appliance dishwasher
food processor
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Look to the North: Words with /ei/, /ie/, and /eigh/
weighs ceiling field reindeer
freight eighteen
neighbor receive weird chief
believe seize
either fierce relief windshield
pierce thief
achieve eighth
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
hierarchy community alpha prey
assistant
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Harcourt Trophies (Theme 4) Spelling Words
The Kids’ Invention Book: Words with /-y or -ey/
tiny hockey heavy every
money turkey
early hungry already valley
nobody monkey
company country ability steady
everybody industry
activity honey
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
manufacturer inventor machinery mechanical
massproduce
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
The Case of Pablo’s Nose: Prefixes un- and dis-
unused dislike unclean unheard
disagree disabled
unkind unfriendly unable unhappy
unsafe disobey
uncertain disappear undecided dishonest
disadvantage distrust
unknown unlike
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
detective investigation sleuth
mysterious villain
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
In the Days of King Adobe: Prefixes non-, in-, and re-
nonstop replaced inactive refill
incorrect rethink
nonfat reread retell return
incomplete repay
nonfiction nonsense indirect independent
invisible nonprofit
redo relocate
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
stomach ravenous famished nourishment
calorie
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Red Writing Hood: Changing y to i
families worried ugliest funnier
happily easily
heavier earlier tiniest supplied
luckily relied
activities countries enemies scurried
libraries prettier
readily carried
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
ballet leotard recital
encore flexible
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
One Grain of Rice: Suffixes –ion, -ness, -able, -less, and -ful
addition sadness lovable endless
handful plentiful
breathless happiness solution careful
function stillness
information celebration capable available
believable careless
reusable forgiveness
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
doubles multiplication arithmetic
tripling subtraction
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Harcourt Trophies (Theme 5) Spelling Words
Fire: Words with the “controlled r” sound
doctor dollar power sugar
corner collar
danger ladder labor cellar
other motor
hunger calendar horror officer
finger director
master regular
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
firefighter inferno inflammable
fiery smoldering
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
A Very Important Day: Words with the “controlled l” sound
table final handle personal
animal usual
jungle actual example bottle
possible single
several national hospital trouble
candle dial
equal jingle
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
citizenship allegiance petition immigration
examination
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points) ____________________
Saguaro Cactus: Words with the “controlled n” sound
pollen even urban seven
kitchen reason
human season burden wagon
oven dragon
horizon orphan sudden eleven
button canyon
slogan golden
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
ecosystem precipitation region
climate creatures
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
Blue Willow: Add –ed or -ing
stepped entered reaching allowing
argued speaking
reading unfolding finished closing
hugged belonged
divided determined rewarding occurred
controlled injured
permitting practicing
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
scholar education professor studious
extracurricular
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
In My Family: Words with “silent” letters
lamb often castle listen
comb climbed
fasten crumbs soften thumb
doubt whistle
honest rhyme answer column
numb tomb
glisten hasten
Challenge words are NOT required, but are worth an extra 3 points each on
test:
alligator fiesta mosquito vanilla
patio
Bonus Word: (not required, worth 4 points)
“Commonly Misspelled Words”
1. address
2. all right
3. because
4. bought
5. chocolate
6. choose
7. enough
8. forty
9. fourth
10. knew
11. know
12. making
13. minute
14. often
15. principal
16. quarter
17. quit
18. quiet
19. received
20. skiing
21. studying
22. surprise
23. their
24. thought
25. tomorrow
“Plurals”
1. desks
2. benches
3. foxes
4. cities
5. families
6. turkeys
7. journeys
8. beliefs
9. roofs
10. knives
11. leaves
12. halves
13. heroes
14. potatoes
15. videos
16. radios
17. sandboxes
18. oxen
19. moose
20. salmon
21. dozen
22. music
23. series
24. air
25. police
Spelling List and Definitions for “Twelve Powerful Words”
For this test, you will need to know how to spell each of the “Twelve Powerful
Words” and be able to
match each word to the definition when given.
1. Analyze
· Break apart or examine
· Study the pieces
2. Compare
· Tell how they are alike
· List how they are similar
3. Contrast
· Tell the differences
4. Describe
· Tell about in your own words
· Who, What, When, Where, and How
5. Evaluate
· Judge its worth, assess
· Example 4x = ? when x = 5
6. Explain
· Tell how in your own words
7. Formulate
· Put together or create
· Come up with a plan
8. Infer
· Read between the lines
· What do you think?
· Draw conclusions
9. Predict
· What will happen next?
· Make a guess
10. Summarize
· Give the short version
11. Support
· Back up with details
· Give facts that describe
12. Trace
· List in steps (1,2,3)
· Sequence