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Words with /oo/Fourth Grade Spelling Words
1. Words Long and Short a
played, escape, thank, subway, gray, safely, mistake, greatest, break, after, planting, scratch, address, holiday, natural, paragraph, blanket, capital, taken, cabin
2. Words Long and Short e
asleep, empty, queen, deal, needed, spelling, east, feelings, tea, keeping, beneath, agree, elevator, coffee, suggested, method, feature, metal, disease, television
3. Words Long and Short i
mine, tie, wild, type, smile, drive, size, blind, visit, thick, die, prize, fifty, picnic, arrived, decide, child, civil, divide, library
4. Words Long and Short o and u
those, coach, solid, include, crew, plus, operate, broke, upset, tune, June, floating, plume, renew, husband, honor, smoke, conflict, stew, thunder
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Words with /oo/
loop, wounded, shoot, booth, broom, boost, mood, fooling, afternoon, room, smooth, tooth, raccoon, bloomed, souvenir, routine, roofs, loose, coop, stoop
6. Words with /är/
carved, garden, harm, farther, barked, alarm, chart, starved, harder, parked, smartest, charge, guard, argument, hardware, garbage, harsh, parts, radar, harbor
7. Words with the /Ôr/ Sound
pour, orbit, fourth, source, sports, forward, force, order, wore, yourself, support, sore, orange, anymore, ignore, portrait, border, course, tornado, your
8. Words with the /âr/ Sound
cared, dairy, unfair, rarely, stared, dared, glare, airplanes, barely, farewell, software, staircase, everywhere, declare, square, therefore, despair, prepared, beware, repair
9. Words with /ûr/
curve, learned, curly, pearl, purse, further, turtle, urgent, burning, hurried, earth, earned, purpose, surface, overheard, rehearse, current, disturb, furniture, research
10. Words with /ou/
ground, frown, downtown, bounced, council, about, scout, counter, background, amount, bound, shower, mountain, county, thousand, allowance, counselor, discount, countless, rebound
11. Words with the /oi/ Sound
boiled, annoyed, choices, poison, employer, joining, spoiled, voices, destroyed, pointing, avoided, enjoying, employee, voyage, appointed, poisonous, foil, loyal, noisy, disappointed
12. Plurals
shelves, sheep, teeth, elves, mice, calves, spacecraft, jeans, feet, women, men, geese, salmon, series, scissors, halves, oxen, crises, knives, thieves
13. 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
14. Abbreviations
Pres., Dr., Ave., Hwy., Rd., St., Fri., Sat., Sept., Dec., tsp., lb., Wed., Gov., Mt., Rte., Jan., Pkwy., Sun., Mon.
15. 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
16. Words That End with –y or –ey
tiny, hockey, heavy, every, money, turkey, early, hungry, already, valley, nobody, monkey, company, country, ability, steady, everybody, industry, activity, honey
17. Prefixes un- and dis-
unused, dislike, unclean, unheard, disagree, disabled, unkind, unfriendly, unable, unhappy, unsafe, disobey, uncertain, disappear, undecided, dishonest, disadvantage, distrust, unknown, unlike
18. 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
19. Changing y to i
families, worried, ugliest, funnier, happily, easily, heavier, earlier, tiniest, supplied, luckily, relied, activities, countries, enemies, scurried, libraries, prettier, readily, carried
20. 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
21. Words with /¶r/
doctor, dollar, power, sugar, corner, collar, danger, ladder, labor, cellar, other, motor, hunger, calendar, horror, officer, finger, director, master, regular
22. Words with the /¶l/ Sound
table, final, handle, personal, animal, usual, jungle, actual, example, bottle, possible, single, several, national, hospital, trouble, candle, dial, equal, jingle
23. Words with /¶n/
pollen, even, urban, seven, kitchen, reason, human, season, burden, wagon, oven, dragon, horizon, orphan, sudden, eleven, button, canyon, slogan, golden
24. Adding –ed and –ing
stepped, entered, reaching, allowing, argued, speaking, reading, unfolding, finished, closing, hugged, belonged, divided, determined, rewarding, occurred, controlled, injured, permitting, practicing
25. Words with “Silent” Letters
lamb, often, castle, listen, comb, climbed, fasten, crumbs, soften, thumb, doubt, whistle, honest, rhyme, answer, column, numb, tomb, glisten, hasten
26. Contractions
hasn’t, I’ve, I’d, we’ve, wouldn’t, you’d, haven’t, wasn’t, they’ve, you’ve, she’d, didn’t, won’t, shouldn’t, couldn’t, weren’t, we’d, hadn’t, they’d, don’t
27. Homophones
some, sum, tale, tail, plains, planes, close, clothes, blew, blue, piece, peace, night, knight, peddle, pedal, sight, site, stake, steak
28. VCCV Words
practice, members, dinner, suppose, except, problem, shallow, stubborn, logger, cotton, object, shelter, distance, pattern, captive, publish, sitting, tractor, servant, hidden
29. VCV Words
major, cedar, spiders, locate, legal, ruler, motive, raven, pilot, silent, super, paper, native, rivals, solar, bison, humor, moment, nature, virus
30. Words with Three Syllables
difficult, probably, beginning, direction, discover, excellent, important, imagine, energy, remember, different, another, beautiful, dangerous, government, interest, becoming, description, engineer, wonderful