The following spelling word lists (15 words) are connected to the weekly
reading selections taken from the Open Court Language Arts textbook. Your
child will be responsible for completing daily homework spelling worksheets
to supplement the class spelling workbook. The weekly vocabulary words (5 or 6)
can be used as CHALLENGE WORDS if your child wishes to extend his/her spelling
words. A final spelling test will be given every Friday.

Unit 1 Friendship
Story: "Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend"
path
lamp
damp
plant
math
trash
stamp
hatbox
have
grass
rags
back
black
that

Challenge Words
tease
lonely
seriously
collection
stiff
probably

Challenge Words
tease
lonely
seriously
collection
stiff
probably


Story: "Angel Child, Dragon Child"

deck
tent
spent
fence
head
dead
bread
desk
thread
sweater
edge
bell
next
send
them
Challenge Words
jangled
twittered
gleamed
darted
scrawled
margins

Story: "The Tree House"
pick
risk
film
grip
brick
give
stitch
finish
trick
live
window
visit
lift
with
into
Challenge Words
magnificent
marvelous
beautiful
peered
height

Story: "Rugby and Rosie
rot
shot
crop
sock
clock
flock
body
spot
stocking
lobby
stop
got
lots
job
pond
Challenge Words
commands
manners
proud
trainers
graduation

Story: "Teammates"
dusk
blush
crust
thump
shut
dump
scrub
pump
buff
buzz
but
just
bus
upon
much
Challenge Words
exist
extraordinary
apathetic
intimidate
experiment
humiliations

Story: The Legend of Damon and Pythias
brand
candy
plan
hobby
best
read
us
top
jump
send
tell
prison
last
robbers
struggle
Challenge Words
tyrant
rebel
appointed
traitor
honorable

UNIT 2 City Wildlife

Story: "The Boy Who Didn't Believe In Spring"

bare
dare
fare
share
hair
fair
glare
chair
bear
wear
air
car
dark
apartments
started
Bonus Words
crops
decorated
vacant
mound
patch

STORY; "City Critters: Wild Animals Live in Cities, Too"

porch
fort
sport
storm
tore
burn
curb
hurt
hurry
nurse
urban
forget
bird
short
before

BONUS WORDS

biologist
skyscraper
migrating
laboratories
observation

STORY: " Make Way For Ducklings"

candle
handle
tangle
jungle
marble
apple
bubble
jingle
pebble
people
turtles
little
waddle
whistle
bottle

BONUS WORDS
cozy
enormous
responsibility
delighted
bursting
beckoned

STORY: "Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City"
mouse
count
mouth
south
bound
gown
crown
brown
frown
crowd
flowerpot
house
throughout
surrounds
found

BONUS WORDS
abandoned
originally
species
cavity
suburbs
clamor

STORY: " Two Days in May"

boy
enjoy
broil
loyal
oil
boil
soil
coil
coin
join
destroy
poison
royal
point
voices

BONUS WORDS
does
bucks
territory
relocates
organization
population

STORY: "Secret Place"

noisy
choice
grouch
growl
puddle
dirt
pear
corner
rare
return
clouds
tangled
cradle
noise
jangled

BONUS WORDS
shallow
concrete
slopes
shadowed
wilderness
plumes

UNIT 3 Imagination

STORY: "Through Grandpa's Eyes"

flame
blaze
spade
fail
mail
stain
play
away
plate
raise
clay
rain
awake
face
chain

BONUS WORDS:
carved
burrow
exercises
bow
imitating
sculpture

STORY: "The Cat Who Became A Poet"

neat
deal
clean
please
beast
keep
street
seen
easy
creek
eat
hearing
feel
real
tree

BONUS WORDS:
poet
nibbling
alarm
temperature
commanded
burglars

STORY: "A Cloak For The Dreamer"

line
pipe
wise
smile
glide
high
sigh
fright
sight
light
fine
wide
right
time
night

BONUS WORDS:
fabric
rectangle
pattern
diagonal
triangles
hexagons

STORY: "Picasso"

cone
vote
spoke
froze
chose
coal
goal
soap
choke
goat
over
alone
noses
most
old

BONUS WORDS:
encouraged
style
controversial
monuments
originality
scenery

STORY: "The Emperor's New Clothes"

moon
cute
loose
scoop
choose
dune
flute
chew
few
grew
new
noon
rule
fool
looms

BONUS WORDS:
wardrobe
scholars
finery
royal
procession
garments

STORY: "Roxaboxen"

made
note
sail
boat
use
soon
bright
pool
open
each
became
like
reach
stone
jewels

BONUS WORDS:
ford
traced
mayor
decorated
blossomed
bordering

UNIT 4 Money

STORY: "A New Coat For Anna"

better
letter
potter
rubber
soccer
ladder
hammer
scatter
dinner
slippers
tomorrow
summer
pretty
button
happy

BONUS WORDS:
remained
strung
wound
weaver
bolt


STORY: "Alexander, Who Used To Be ..."

spill
hill
gull
smell
mess
odd
add
cliff
mitt
fuzz
all
still
fall
till
guess

BONUS WORDS:
tokens
absolutely
positively
vanish
non-returnable
rent

STORY: "Kids Did It in Business"

he'll
she'll
we'll
I'd
we'd
they'll
you'd
that's
she'd
you'll
it's
she's
what's
I'm
can't

BONUS WORDS:
malfunction
profitable
merchandise
earnings
donates
charity


STORY: "The Cobbler's Song"

making
biting
diving
hiking
skated
prized
shaking
skating
hiding
shining
thinking
entered
opened
passing
safekeeping


BONUS WORDS:
cobbler
mended
recognizing
workbench
treasures

STORY: "Four Dollars and Fifty Cents"

berries
bunnies
guppies
hobbies
pennies
puppies
ponies
babies
donkeys
families
dollars
horses
sleeves
cowboys
britches


BONUS WORDS:
blacksmith
collecting
decent
volunteered
determined


STORY: "The Go-Around Dollar"

playground
underground
chalkboard
cardboard
spacewalk
sidewalk
rainbow
anything
campfire
eyelash
shoelaces
something
overprinting
neighborhood
sometimes

BONUS WORDS:
tender
formula
official
pyramid
emblem
circulation

STORY: "Uncle Jed's Barbershop"

offer
winner
zipper
will
well
he'd
isn't
taking
monkeys
stitches
used
cutting
clippers
saving
died

BONUS WORDS:
equipment
sharecroppers
exchange
examine
delayed
failing