Each week your child will receive ten Greek and Latin Root words to study. These words are made up of prefixes, bases, and suffixes. They will receive the words at the beginning of the week, and then we do lessons throughout the week to learn the mearnings. Your child is expected to know the meaning of each word for the word work test on Friday.
In addition to the definition test, students will have a dictation spelling test. The will include five high frequency words that students will also receive at the start of each week. The sentences will have the five words plus other basic fourth grade words that your child should already know how to spell from third grade. Those words are not given out ahead of time.
First Quarter Greek and Latin Roots
week 1- introduce program
week 2- in/im - meaning: in, into , on
week 3-com/col- meaning: with, together
week 4- de - meaning: down off, of
week 5- pro - meaning: forward, for
week 6- Review of previous words
week 7- audi/audit - meaning: hear, listen
week 8- voc, voke, voice - meaning: voice, call
week 9- spec, spect - meaning: watch, look
Second Quarter Greek and Latin Roots
week 10- spec, spect- mearning: watch, look at
week 11- terr - meaning: land, ground, earth
week 11- terr - meaning: land, ground, earth
week 12- trac, tract- meaning: pull, draw, drag
week 13 - Review
week 13 - Review
week 14- trans - mearning: across, change
week 15- inter- mearning- between, among
week 16- per- meaning: through
week 17- auto - mearning: self
week 18- Review
**Please check your child's agenda each week for the 5 high frequency words.
This is NOT a part of our spelling program, but these are high frequency words that all fourth graders should know. If you have extra time, have your kids work on these words. :-).
336. become | 337. grow | 338. draw | 339. yet | 340. less |
341. wind | 342. behind | 343. cannot | 344. letter | 345. among |
346. able | 347. dog | 348. shown | 349. mean | 350. English |
351. rest | 352. perhaps | 353. certain | 354. six | 355. feel |
356. fire | 357. ready | 358. green | 359. yes | 360. built |
361. special | 362. ran | 363. full | 364. town | 365. complete |
366. oh | 367. person | 368. hot | 369. anything | 370. hold |
371. state | 372. list | 373. stood | 374. hundred | 375. ten |
376. fast | 377. felt | 378. kept | 379. notice | 380. can't |
381. strong | 382. voice | 383. probably | 384. area | 385. horse |
386. matter | 387. stand | 388. box | 389. start | 390. that's |
391. class | 392. piece | 393. surface | 394. river | 395. common |
396. stop | 397. am | 398. talk | 399. whether | 400. fine |
401. round | 402. dark | 403. past | 404. ball | 405. girl |
406. road | 407. blue | 408. instead | 409. either | 410. held |
411. already | 412. warm | 413. gone | 414. finally | 415. summer |
416. understood | 417. moon | 418. animals | 419. mind | 420. outside |
421. power | 422. problem | 423. longer | 424. winter | 425. deep |
426. heavy | 427. carefully | 428. follow | 429. beautiful | 430. everyone |
431. leave | 432. everything | 433. game | 434. system | 435. bring |
436. watch | 437. shell | 438. dry | 439. within | 440. floor |
441. ice | 442. ship | 443. themselves | 444. begin | 445. fact |
446. third | 447. quite | 448. carry | 449. distance | 450. although |
451. sat | 452. possible | 453. heart | 454. real | 455. simple |
456. snow | 457. rain | 458. suddenly | 459. easy | 460. leaves |
461. lay | 462. size | 463. wild | 464. weather | 465. miss |
466. pattern | 467. sky | 468. walked | 469. main | 470. someone |
471. center | 472. field | 473. stay | 474. itself | 475. boat |
476. question | 477. wide | 478. least | 479. tiny | 480. hour |
481. happened | 482. foot | 483. care | 484. low | 485. else |
486. gold | 487. build | 488. glass | 489. rock | 490. tall |
491. alone | 492. bottom | 493. check | 494. reading | 495. fall |
496. poor | 497. map | 498. friend | 499. language | 500. job |
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Unit 1: become grow draw yet less spelling activities: | Unit 2:wind behind cannot letter among spelling activities: | Unit 3: able dog shown mean English spelling activities: | Unit 4:rest perhaps certain six feel spelling activities: |
Unit 5: fire ready green yes builtspelling activities: | Unit 6:special ran full town completespelling activities: | Unit 7:oh person hot anything holdspelling activities: | Unit 8: state list stood hundred tenspelling activities: |
Unit 9: fast felt kept notice can'tspelling activities: | Unit 10: strong voice probably area horsespelling activities: | Unit 11:matter stand box start that'sspelling activities: | Unit 12: class piece surface river commonspelling activities: |
Unit 13: stop am talk whether finespelling activities: | Unit 14: round dark past ball girlspelling activities: | Unit 15: road blue instead either heldspelling activities: | Unit 16: already warm gone finally summerspelling activities: |
Unit 17: understood moon animals mind outsidespelling activities: | Unit 18:power problem longer winter deepspelling activities: | Unit 19: heavy carefully follow beautiful everyonespelling activities: | Unit 20: leave everything game system bringspelling activities: |
Unit 21: watch shell dry within floorspelling activities: | Unit 22: ice ship themselves begin factspelling activities: | Unit 23: third quite carry distance althoughspelling activities: | Unit 24: sat possible heart real simplespelling activities: |
Unit 25:snow rain suddenly easy leavesspelling activities: | Unit 26:lay size wild weather missspelling activities: | Unit 27: pattern sky walked main someonespelling activities: | Unit 28: center field stay itself boatspelling activities: |
Unit 29:question wide least tiny hourspelling activities: | Unit 30:happened foot care low elsespelling activities: | Unit 31:gold build glass rock tallspelling activities: | Unit 32:alone bottom check reading fallspelling activities: |
If you would like to view the spelling words your child should have mastered in grades 1-3, see the links below:
First Grade Words
Second Grade Words
Third Grade Words