4th Grade Spelling Curriculum

Week	Content	Strategies	Assessment
Aug 28th	Words with thr, scr, str, squ	Draw your own conclusion Using words in context	Spelling Test
Sept.4th	Words with kn, gn, wr, mb	Rhyming words Defining Words Dictionary – guide words	Spelling Test
Sept. 11th	Words with /k/ and /f/	Classifying words Proof reading	Proof reading Test
Sept. 18th	Olympic Spelling Contract
Sept. 25th	Olympic Spelling Contract
Oct. 2nd	Adding -ed and -ing	Context clues Add endings Antonyms	Spelling Test
Oct. 9th	Adding -er and -est	Comparison words Exaggeration	Spelling Test
Oct. 16th	Words with sh, ch, tch, wh	Making associations Word Histories	Spelling Test
Oct. 23rd	Words with Double Consonants	Antonyms Words in context Acrostics	Antonyms Test
Oct. 30th	Short e and Long e	Definitions Proverbs	Spelling Test
Nov. 6th	Short vowels - a, e, i, o, u	Base words Dictionary - pronunciation	Spelling Test
Nov. 13th	Long vowels - a, i, o	Syllables Proofread a Summary Idioms	Spelling Test
Dec. 4th	Consonant Sounds - i/ks/kw	Tongue twisters Using a Dictionary	Spelling Test
Dec. 11th	Using just enough Letters	Classifying Words in context	Spelling Test
Christmas Vacation
Jan. 1st	Contractions	Homophones Creating contractions Quotation marks	Homophones Test
Jan. 8th	Getting Letters in Correct Order	Homophones Affixes	Spelling Test
Jan. 15th	Vowels with 'r'	Poetry words Onomatopoeia	Spelling Test
Jan. 22nd	Vowel sounds IN put AND out	Syllables Rhyming words	Spelling Test
Jan. 29th	Vowel sounds IN few And moon	Analogies Tongue twisters Collective Nouns	Spelling Test
Feb. 5th	Homophones	Homophones Homographs	Spelling Test
Feb. 12th	Including all the letters	Syllables Proofreading	Spelling Test
Feb. 19th	Compound Words	Classifications Joining Words	Spelling Test
Feb. 26th	Suffixes -less, -ment, -ness	Suffixes Adding to Base Words Proofread captions	Suffixes Test
March 5th	Suffixes -ful, -ly, -ion	Adding endings Base words + suffixes Haiku	Spelling Test
March 12th	Suffixes dis-, in-, mis-, re-	Antonyms Prefix addition Proofreading a letter	Antonyms Test
March 19th	Vowels with no sound clues	Drawing conclusions Synonyms Using a Dictionary	Spelling Test
March 26th	Vowels in final syllables	Context clues Abbreviations Categorizing	Spelling Test
	Capitalization and Abbreviation	Abbreviations	Spelling Test
	Possessives	Singular possessives Using context clues Plural possessives	Plurals Test

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