4th Grade Spelling Units (Level D)

Unit D-1 is the first unit in our 4th grade spelling series. This list has 25 words with the short a and short e vowel sounds. List includes: package, meant, taxes, shelf, rapid, dwell, eggplant, alligator, camper, attitude, special, nonsense, enter, activity, festive, elephant, measure, bandage, spend, and scrap.

These spelling lists and worksheets feature short i, short o, and short u words, such as costume, olive, shock, follower, fudge, cousin, switch, fling, shrimp, window, octopus, suddenly, swift, crunch, cotton, kitchen, imitate, important, prompt, and building.

Unit D-3 has long a words, including painter, shape, danger, skater, space, drain, painful, faint, crazy, basic, famous, ranger, tasty, phrase, weight, frame, change, steak, radio, and eighth.

This list has 20 long e spelling words: cookie, season, freezing, breeze, eager, brief, shiny, stream, speaking, leader, jelly, seamstress, thirteen, relieved, honey, slimy, repeating, agree, thief, and beetle.

Short oo words are the focus on this week's spelling lessons. Word list: football, push, cushion, wonderful, pulled, pudding, sugar, bulletin, could, bookshelf, brook, goodbye, understood, woolly, wooden, crooked, bushel, would, shook, and lookout.

This week's focus is long oo and long u words. List: uniform, mute, unicorn, threw, salute, stew, chewing, juice, curfew, usually, bugle, utensil, music, duel, blueberry, tuned, excuse, toothache, unusual, using.

Long i and long o words are this week's theme. Throne, whole, mobile, boast, poet, frightening, license, throat, mileage, tonight, lighten, oldest, stolen, reply, thrive, highway, exercise, grown, recognize, toaster, icicle, and online.

These words have vowel-consonant-(silent e) endings. Full list: phone, adore, supervise, lemonade, became, calculate, include, blame, impose, behave, underline, alone, scrape, alive, surprise, awhile, ignite, froze, drapes, and beside.

The words in this unit have the /aw/ and /ou/ vowel sounds. Bounce, always, slouch, frown, sauce, aloud, sprout, mountain, false, howling, awful, drawn, jigsaw, awning, pounce, scouted, couch, scrounge, squawk, and coleslaw.

This unit has words with double consonants. Officer, worried, arrival, scanner, proceed, fitness, equally, approve, install, mirror, grammar, career, warrior, offend, succeed, cabbage, traffic, swollen, toolbar, and glimmer.

Pluralizing nouns that end with the letter y is the topic for this week. Puppies, surveys, candies, countries, parties, varieties, skies, railways, trays, hobbies, families, kidneys, journeys, flies, supplies, essays, keys, valleys, memories, and delays.

More plural nouns. Word list: children, marches, potatoes, scarves, itches, heroes, brushes, twitches, patches, halves, foxes, echoes, sketches, women, loaves, wolves, stitches, compasses, species, and buffaloes.

Words on this list are action verbs with -ed or -ing suffixes. Flying, visited, admitted, allowing, traveling, shortened, listening, controlled, participating, smiling, coughing, laughing, stopping, poured, inherited, worrying, argued, wandered, lied, and sobbed.

Each of these words ends with the letters -el or -le. Carousel, barrel, middle, towel, channel, noodle, wiggle, jewel, caramel, pickle, eagle, cancel, bicycle, kennel, chuckle, couple, multiple, scramble, vowel, and parallel.

Learn to spell comparative and superlative adjectives ending with -er and -est. Strongest, fastest, cleanest, tougher, silliest, heavier, darker, loudest, happier, sleepiest, colder, softer, highest, youngest, brighter, smoother, windiest, dirtier, hungrier, and calmer.

Practice spelling compound words, such as: skateboard, shipwreck, strawberry, saltwater, everybody, dishwasher, wallpaper, windshield, motorboat, leadership, lifestyle, staircase, applesauce, yearbook, firefighter, daredevil, meatball, overdue, clockwise, and briefcase.

These words have the /ow/ and /oi/ sounds. Allowance, noisy, royal, moisten, eyebrow, boiling, drowsy, boundary, fountain, astounding, joining, thousand, around, tower, cloudy, crowded, chowder, choice, employ, and appointment.

This week's focus is prefixes. All words have one of the following prefixes: re-, mis-, un-, im-, and in-. Full list: mismatch, removed, unknown, review, rearrange, unlike, misplace, untangle, unhealthy, unequal, incorrect, reappear, mistaken, regroup, unable, impatient, unstable, recharge, impossible, and unwrapped.

These spelling words all have suffixes. Colorful, cheerful, remarkable, adaptable, careless, active, reasonable, likable, breakable, memorable, breathless, impressive, honorable, hopeless, thoughtful, miserable, massive, wonderful, and creative, and spotless.

The theme for this unit is r-controlled vowels. Word list: porcupine, splurge, purse, morning, creature, picture, circular, according, modern, search, argue, nature, afford, surround, service, pardon, tomorrow, sharpen, urgent, and apartment.

This unit's words all have silent consonants. Words include: muscle, debris, salmon, doubt, cupboard, whistle, ballet, yolk, wrestle, plumber, column, gourmet, autumn, buffet, subtle, castle, soften, knowledge, answer, and daughter.

Learn about homophones! List includes horse/hoarse, chilly/chili, cents/scents, disgust/discussed, ate/eight, and aisle/I'll.

With these printable worksheets, students will practice spelling a variety of three-syllable words, such as telephone, pajamas, imagine, telescope, rectangle, principal, hospital, envelope, celery, policeman, internet, cabinet, spaghetti, banana, library, microwave, tomato, privacy, history, and vitamin.

Long, four-syllable words are found on this list. Transportation, caterpillar, appreciate, relaxation, information, ability, relationship, watermelon, eternity, discovery, ordinary, helicopter, certificate, technology, apologize, identical, geography, macaroni, and community.

Spotlight phonics topic for this week is vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel (VCCV) words. List includes: dentist, welcome, insect, perfume, corner, capture, pencil, survive, extend, subject, silver, sandal, shelter, hunger, dislike, reptile, absent, college, confess, and secret.

Practice spelling and writing contractions! They'll, couldn't, you've, mustn't, they've, she's, you'll, he's, would've, wouldn't, who'll, could've, they're, shouldn't, who's, who'd, you'd, should've, o'clock, they'd, there's, and you're.

This unit has words with the letters w, x, y, and z. Taxicab, between, zebra, zoology, awkward, examine, yawned, bronze, exhale, hexagon, yeast, exhibit, youthful, oyster, tuxedo, dynamite, rhythm, maximize, ozone, civilized, warmth, and awesome.

Learn to spell proper nouns. Words include oceans, city names, countries, people's names, and famous landmarks. Earth, John F. Kennedy, Mount Everest, Times Square, California, London, Central Park, Taj Mahal, Atlantic Ocean, Stonehenge, Venus, Neil Armstrong, Egypt, Elvis Presley, George Washington, Brazil, Honolulu.

This list has many rhyming words: kangaroo, review, avenue, and through; appreciate, activate; delete, parakeet, athlete, and retreat; appetite, delight invite.

This is the final unit in the 4th grade spelling series. These words have the /kw/ sound, spelled with the letters qu. Word list: squint, inquire, masquerade, quotation, conquer, aquarium, squirm, squirrel, question, squash, squiggle, quiver, bouquet, squeak, squeeze, quieter, liquid, quail, squat, quarter, quarrel, and equator.

This list has twenty-five Halloween words for your students to spell. Nighttime, witch, wizard, pumpkin, ghost, vampire, goblin, tombstone, October, shadows, jack-o-lantern, trick-or-treat, Frankenstein, scariest, and broomstick.

This unit has the words Thanksgiving, autumn, colony, longhouse, Squanto, settler, squash, celebration, Pilgrim, Native American, grateful, vegetables, delicious, England, utensils, November, tradition, Thursday, stuffing, and cranberry.

This holiday-themed spelling unit includes the following words: ornaments, evergreen, reindeer, Christmas tree, holly berries, gifts, mistletoe, wreath, hot cocoa, elf, angel, chimney, cookies, Santa Claus, gingerbread, eggnog, Mrs. Claus, snowflakes, December, exchange, decorations, tinsel, caroling, chestnuts, and twinkling lights.

This Easter-themed unit contains the following words: basket, pastels, carrots, parade, coloring eggs, chocolates, hopping, brunch, duckling, tulips, daffodil, jellybeans, Easter, springtime, decorate, rabbits, Sunday, butterfly, hidden, and bonnet.

This theme unit is all about Canada. Words in this unit include: Prime Minister, Parliament, Canada, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, maple leaf, beaver, Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto, hockey, Niagara Falls, Northern Hemisphere, Alberta, New Brunswick, province, Quebec, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Queen Elizabeth II, Ontario, Yukon, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, and British Columbia.

This electricity-themed spelling unit includes the following words: circuit, battery, heat, charge, amperage, insulators, plug, wire, power, current, spark, flow, terminals, positive, negative, voltage, closed, open, parallels, components, lightning, electrical, energy, zapped, and complete.

Here is your sports-themed spelling unit: coach, running, volleyball, championship, gymnasium, field, ball, throw, pitcher, soccer, cyclist, racing, overtime, kickball, baseball, athletics, basketball, diving, dodgeball, hockey, halftime, waterskiing, referee, wrestling, and golfing.

This theme unit is all about the periodic table of the elements. The words in this unit include: elements, periodic table, gases, metals, magnesium, aluminum, gold, silver, copper, atomic number, science, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, neon, lead, zinc, carbon, helium, mercury, nickel, platinum, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sodium.

The old STW spelling curriculum has 24 units. Each unit has one or two worksheets to go along with it.

Fourth grade spelling marks an important stage where students build upon foundational skills and tackle more advanced word patterns, vocabulary, and spelling rules. At this level, students expand their understanding of root words, prefixes, suffixes, and commonly misspelled words. Super Teacher Worksheets provides a comprehensive fourth-grade spelling curriculum with 30 weekly units, as well as special holiday-themed units, to help students sharpen their skills. Activities like sentence completion, word scrambles, word hunts, flashcards, alphabetical order exercises, and regular quizzes keep students engaged while strengthening their spelling, reading, writing, and overall language proficiency.

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