Spelling Contract
All contracts need to be completed by Friday. If you are absent during the week, you are still responsible for completing the spelling contract by the due date.

Directions: Complete a different spelling activity each night for homework. Each paper should contain your name and spelling contract on the title line. Please do the activities neatly, if I can not read your handwriting you will redo the activity.

Activities

Use 8 words in a sentence. The sentences should be good fourth grades sentences containing at least 6 words. Do not start all the sentences with “I.”

Write our words three times each in cursive

Make a word search using all words

Find our words in the newspaper or magazine and glue them to paper.

Use at least 10 spelling words in a story. The story must make sense.

Rainbow words (choose 3 crayons; write each spelling word in one color, then trace over them in the other 2 colors).

Use graph paper to create a word search puzzle using all of the words from the list. Be sure to add an answer key.

Use graph paper to create a crossword puzzle using all of the words from the list. Be sure to add an answer key.

Write a paragraph using at least half of the words from the list. Underline each word used from the list.

Create a classification chart showing how the words from the list can be divided into groups. Possible groupings include -ing endings, words with prefixes, science related words, etc.

Classify the words according to their parts of speech.

Write each word four times neatly in cursive.

Print each word and circle the vowels in one color and the consonants in a different color.

Make a set of flash cards.

Write the definition for each word.

Have a family member give you a pretest. They should grade it and sign the paper.

Cut the words out of a magazine and make a collage.

Pyramid write your words. Example: Cloud
C
CL
CLO
CLOU
CLOUD

Write your words in ABC order from a-z and then backwards from z-a.

Write tongue twisters for each of your words using words that start with the same letter as your word. Example: the word is said ~ Sam and Sally said “Si” silently as they started speaking in Spanish.

Write your words from the longest to the shortest.

Write all spelling words separating the syllables with

different color markers / colored pencils. Use a
dictionary to do these correctly!

Draw a picture illustrating 8 different spelling words. Pictures must be neatly drawn and colored. Write each word under each picture.