Your child is learning to spell words that end with -tion, -sion, and -ture: question, creature, furniture, division, collision, action, direction, culture, vacation, mansion, fiction, feature, sculpture, vision, celebration.
Your child is learning to spell words with the schwa sound: above, another, upon, animal, paper, open, family, travel, afraid, nickel, sugar, circus, item, gallon, melon.
Your child is learning words with the vowel sound in” tooth” and the vowel sound in “cook”: few, school, true, goose, fruit, cookie, cushion, noodle, bookmark, balloon, suit, chew, glue, Tuesday, bushel.
Your child is learning to spell words with the suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, and -ment: rocky, foolish, rainy, childhood, selfish, treatment, movement, neighborhood, childish, parenthood, crunchy, bumpy, payment, sleepy, shipment.
Your child is learning words with the vowel sound in ball spelled augh, ough, al, and ou: thought, fought, bought, taught, caught, walk, cough, talk, daughter, ought, sought, brought, trough, chalk, stalk.
The spelling words for the week have the vowel sound in “ball”: small, almost, always, because, straw, drawn, also, author, false, already, flaw, sausage, applause, walnut, lawn.
The spelling words this week are homophones: to, too, two, week, weak, our, hour, stair, stare, flour, flower, write, right, new, knew.
The spelling words this week have the syllable patterns CVVC (consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant) or CVV (consonant, vowel, vowel): create, medium, piano, idea, radio, video, studio, violin, duo, patio, rodeo, pioneer, trio, stadium, audio.
Your child is learning to spell words with the suffixes -er, -or, -ess, and -ist: dentist, editor, artist, hostess, actress, swimmer, seller, tutor, tourist, organist, lioness, shipper, chemist, investor, conductor.
Your child is learning to spell words with the prefixes “pre-”, “mid-”, “over-”, and “out-”: prepaid, midnight, overflow, outdoors, outline, overgrown, prefix, Midwest, pretest, midpoint, outgoing, overtime, overdue, outside, outfield.