Spelling for Theme 4: Making of A New Nation
Story: If You
Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
zero
zeros
trio
trios
hero
heroes
echo
echoes
potato
potatoes
halo
halos
radios
buffalo
buffaloes
colonies
taxes
themselves
clothes
speeches
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Story: The
Night the Revolution Began
boys’
actor’s
boss’s
ladies’
parents’
pilot’s
girls’
waiter’s
waitress’s
babies’
director’s
officer’s
customer’s
teachers’
owner’s
friend’s
ships’
king’s
company’s
maker’s
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Story: The
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
staircase
landmark
barefoot
campground
snowflake
earthquake
bookkeeper
typewriter
granddaughter
springtime
motorcycle
newspaper
sweatshirt
background
thunderstorm
meanwhile
moonlight
churchyard
landscape
overhead
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Story:
The Declaration of Independence
heavy
heavier
worry
worried
envy
envious
butterfly
butterflies
daisy
daisies
bury
buried
supply
supplies
pastries
relied
earlier
copies
happiness
centuries
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Story: The
Master Spy of Yorktown
knotted
thinning
blurred
dropped
stirring
begged
starring
sobbed
fitting
dragged
fanned
petting
snapped
hopping
robbed
admitted
digging
trapping
hotter
winning
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Story: Shh!
We’re Writing the Constitution
caring
writing
liking
smiling
staring
icing
owed
grading
chimed
shaky
behaved
escaping
polluted
puzzling
twinkling
united
described
revising
arrived
draped
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Story: We,
the People of the United States
permitted
nighttime
skyscraper
inches
clipping
nineties
cousins’
padded
blamed
flurries
scoring
scarecrow
trophies
indexes
striking
presiding
derived
urging
astonishes
securing
End of Unit 4
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