5th Grade Spelling Units (Level E)

This spelling unit has short a and short e words. Word list: captain, battery, distract, gratitude, expand, relax, thrash, attack, snagged, empty, thread, elect, expect, present, nestle, trendsetter, century, spread, and rebel.

Unit two's word list has short i, short o, and short u words. List includes umbrella, shriveled, pulse, injure, lodge, wilted, ignite, nominate, shimmer, pondering, obscure, punish, nonsense, spinning, publish, prong, function, longitude ultimate, and signal.

This week's focus is on the long a and long e vowel sounds. The words are: skiing, gracious, breathe, complain, waist, ratio, angrily, concrete, believe, behave, remain, reason, nation, niece, ashamed, between, squeal, decade, evict, and amaze.

Unit E-4's focus is on words with a long i and long o sounds, such as island, choke, arrival, silent, twilight, iodine, cocoa, photo, ignite, rivalry, shoulder, publish, bowling, wholesome, strike, ninety, trial, blown, dough, sparrow, stow, pondering, zodiac, motivation, and growth.

This unit features words with r-controlled vowel sounds. Full list: consumer, pier, hangar, charcoal, porch, concrete, churn, scorch, amaze, orchard, heartfelt, spider, explorer, garden, clerk, evict, guitar, computer, error, charge, thirsty, nerve, quarter, and scarce.

Words in unit E-6 have the /z/ and /s/ sounds. Bicycle, license, phase, medicine, cancel, cereal, because, triceps, sincere, sizes, those, accept, closet, recent, lose, forceful, city, adjacent, distance, arose, scores, and choose.

Plural nouns are the topic for E-7. Complete spelling words: monkeys, criteria, lenses, knives, pennies, thieves, wives, addresses, loaves, puppies, families, oxen, alumni, shelves, intestines, geese, tomatoes, batteries, radios, potatoes, bakeries, and roofs.

Look for the sounds /j/, /ch/, and /sh/ is these words: refrigerator, lotion, hinge, vision, vacation, shambles, initial, precious, challenge, advantage, college, question, general, fortune, mansion, culture, cherish, capture, genius, correction, giraffe, and patient.

These words have silent letters. Word list: lightning, yacht, kneel, crumb, honorable, calf, lamb, character, flight, psychology, resign, condemn, rhythm, butcher, debris, plumber, castle, knife, autumn, assignment, climb, and whistle.

Practice words ending in -ar, -er, -ir, and -or. Anchor, elevator, cylinder, lighter, ancestor, grammar, solar, laser, discolor, counselor, educator, whimper, believer, narrator, censor, carrier, projector, triangular, vinegar, and neighbor.

This week we have more words with silent letters. Ballet, chaos, knowledge, knitting, tomb, wrestle, thorough, gnaw, hustle, rustle, assign, wrench, match, playwright, scissors, handsome, answer, muscle, scratch, fudge, bomb, and knuckle.

These words have prefixes. Preschool, review, rearrange, forewarn, prefix, transform, preview, disconnect, remove, rewind, disorder, forecaster, transportation, previously, disappear, disapprove, prehistoric, preface, impolite, and transition.

This week's words each have one of the following suffixes: -full, -ous, -less, -able. Word list: graceful, careful, harmless, humorous, breakable, worthless, helpless, predictable, peaceful, beautiful, cordless, sleepless, faithful, hazardous, thoughtless, dependable, lovable, comfortable, poisonous, and fearful.

Unit fourteen has words with the /ow/ and /oi/ vowel sounds. Mountain, oyster, employee, surrounded, joust, soiled, poise, oily, bound, loyal, outsider, drowsy, chowder, coiled, coward, grounded, allowed, avoid, annoying, appointment, grouchy, and pounded.

These words have the /k/ and /kw/ sounds. Squid, quality, inquire, confusion, quantity, unequal, unique, squeeze, quadrilateral, ache, quieter, echo, magical, occupy, confident, quickly, chemical, squawk, cosmic, and luckily.

Homophones are the topic for this spelling list. Witch-which; steel-steal; plane-plain; flour-flower; hole-whole; petal-peddle; weather-whether; night-knight; bare-bear; they're-their-there.

This list has regular and irregular past tense verbs, such as: wrapped, delayed, visited, repaired, understood, became, caught, managed, awoke, studied, shook, belonged, signed, preferred, withdrew, attacked, traveled, puzzled, bought, and chatted.

This week's list has present participle verbs and adjectives with the -ing ending. Observing, agreeing, mimicking, exciting, pleasing, frustrating, panicking, scrubbing, selecting, munching, confusing, sounding, appearing, complaining, hiking, laughing, copying, squirting, regulating, and changing.

These words have the /aw/ sound. Hawk, faucet, cause, awfully, taught, sauce, alright, daughter, officer, thought, frosted, laundry, installation, awning, applaud, coleslaw, cough, sausage, lawful, author, scrawny, and brawl.

Three syllables in each spelling word. Dinosaur, artistic, tomorrow, paragraph, reaction, syllable, miracle, frantically, company, however, magazine, probably, sanitize, area, dangerous, celebrate, department, elephant, regulate, faithfully, exercise, and accident.

Four-syllable words are the topic for this set. Librarian, impossible, understanding, institution, discovery, anonymous, resolution, alphabetize, automatic, disagreement, experience, obedient, disillusion, personally, reservation, regulation, patriotic, salutations, conservative, temperature, invisible, and contribution.

All of the words in this list have five-syllables. Cafeteria, electricity, curiosity, generosity, unforgettable, particularly, university, organization, imagination, underestimate, undeniable, discrimination, appreciation, misunderstanding, classification, anniversary, congratulations, elementary, anticipation, and diagonally.

These words have the long-oo and long-u vowel sounds. Balloon, peruse, cubic, unicycle, value, duet, beauty, usually, mutation, amuse, musical, nephew, vacuum, bruise, unicorn, unit, pursue, confuse, youthful, and issue.

This list has words with the letters W, X, Y, and Z. Wheelbarrow, whimsical, awesome, awful, yawning, pretzel, bypass, wreckage, zipper, wrestle, hoax, agonize, yearning, coax, amazing, wardrobe, seized, gazed, yogurt, and woozy.

In this unit, kids will practice spelling compound words, such as knapsack, merry-go-round, extracurricular, lifeguard, cleanup, background., storyteller, roommate, childcare, headquarters, graveyard, brainstorm, commonplace, outpatient, highway, flashlight, workstation, headache, fundraiser, goodbye, spokesperson, and self-defense.

Practice spelling words with double consonants, such as: juggle, flatter, happily, mattress, broccoli, finally, bookkeeper, questionnaire, current, traffic, business, galloping, recommend, accidentally, tissue, strawberries, intelligent, collections, zucchini, embarrass, valley, savvy.

This week students will be spelling proper nouns. Statue of Liberty, Antarctica, February, Pacific Ocean, Niagara Falls, January, Empire State Building, San Diego Zoo, Mt. Everest, Walt Disney, Golden Gate Bridge, Jupiter, Grand Canyon, December, Queen Elizabeth, Eiffel Tower, Friday, Florida, North America, St. Patrick's Day, Neptune, and Wednesday.

The twenty-eighth unit focuses on demonyms. (A demonym is a name given to the residents of a specific continent, country or region.) American, Peruvian, German, Italian, Australian, Japanese, Norwegian, Colombian, European, Hispanic, French, British, African, Chinese, Canadian, Welsh, Dutch, Cuban, Asian, Bolivian, Portuguese, Mexican.

Learn to spell the full variation of clipped words. Telephone (phone), referee (ref), teenager (teen), veterinarian (vet), photograph (photo), influenza (flu), advertisement (ad), mathematics (math), luncheon (lunch), microphone (mic), fanatic (fan), laboratory (lab), gasoline (gas), moving picture (movie), dormitory (dorm), limousine (limo), memorandum (memo), gymnasium (gym), examination (exam), airplane (plane), champion (champ), and demonstration (demo).

Master the spellings of commonly misspelled words, such as: calendar, dessert, quiet, acknowledgment, definitely, separate, desert, twelfth, quite, chief, surprise, medieval, reference, weird, grateful, jewelry, mischievous, rhyme, restaurant, conscience, accommodate, and receipt.

This special Halloween unit contains the following spelling words: skeleton, Halloween, trick-or-treat, gruesome, werewolf, haystacks, ghostly, ghoulish, haunted house, costumes, spooky, frightening, pumpkin, Frankenstein, tombstone, nightmare, phantom, horror, cemetery, cauldron, hoax, vampire, magical, spider, and goblins.

This list has Thanksgiving-themed words, such as: Mayflower, delicious, Puritans, Native American, autumn, potatoes, feast, cranberry sauce, Thanksgiving, centerpiece, November, Plymouth Rock, fowl, tradition, Thursday, Pilgrim, celebration, canoe, vegetables, and Squanto.

The Christmas-themed list includes: Rudolph, exchange, mistletoe, twinkling lights, presents, angel, sleigh bells, wrapping, Christmas, Santa Claus, elves, chestnuts, snowfall, evergreen, reindeer, poinsettia, chimney, caroling, tinsel, pageant, ornaments, gingerbread, wreath, and fruit cake.

The follow spelling words are in this Easter-themed unit: lily, joyous, blossoms, bonnet, brunch, Peter Cottontail, chocolates, Easter, rabbits, colored eggs, springtime, baskets, hard-boiled eggs, pastels, decorate, jellybeans, daffodil, parade, outfits, and butterfly.

This math-themed spelling unit contains the following words: addend, subtraction, difference, measurement, circumference, angle, dividend, probability, geometry, fraction, product, infinity, symmetry, polygon, octagon, denominator, numerator, numeral, cylinder, pyramid, graphing, decimal, perimeter, diameter, and radius.

Here are the spelling words in this science-themed unit: scientist, astronomer, biologist, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, energy, chemist, laboratory, oxygen, atom, fossil, hypothesis, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, molecule, experiment, environment, ecosystem, graduated cylinder, microscope, electron, genome, organism, photosynthesis, and cellular.

This social studies-themed spelling unit contains the following words: soldier, colonist, American Revolution, archaeology, Appalachian Mountains, capitalism, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, republic, railroad, president, Hoover Dam, Civil War, Industrial Revolution, historical, Washington D.C., Thomas Jefferson, immigration, Mt. Rushmore, pioneer, geography, hemisphere, Star Spangled Banner, and Mississippi River.

This page will connect you to all 30 of our 4th grade units.

Link to spelling levels A, B, C, D, and F for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th grade students.

Fifth-grade spelling introduces students to more sophisticated vocabulary and spelling conventions, preparing them for the increased academic demands of middle school. At this stage, students deepen their understanding of word structures, including complex prefixes, suffixes, homophones, and irregular spelling patterns. Super Teacher Worksheets offers a full 30-week fifth-grade spelling curriculum, complete with engaging weekly word lists and additional holiday-themed units. Activities like sentence completion, word scrambles, word hunts, flashcards, alphabetizing exercises, and quizzes are designed to reinforce key spelling skills while enhancing students' reading, writing, and language abilities.

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Strong spelling skills are essential for fifth graders as they transition to more advanced writing tasks and begin to engage with more complex texts. Spelling accuracy supports clearer communication and boosts confidence in writing and reading. With the comprehensive resources available on Super Teacher Worksheets, teachers can provide consistent practice and help students excel. By mastering fifth-grade spelling concepts, students gain a solid foundation for academic success and lifelong language skills.