Building Spelling Skills Gr 4 – Evan Moor

This easy-to-follow and easy-to-implement curriculum will introduce your fourth-grade students to 18 spelling words per week for 30 weeks (540 words total) and will familiarize them with not only the spelling, but the words’ meanings as well as their antonyms and synonyms. You will appreciate that this teacher’s edition includes concise teaching objectives for each of the spelling unit’s weeks to help provide direction, clarity and instruction for smooth sailing!

Spelling lists include the following:

• contractions
• blends
• vowel sounds
• prefixes and suffixes
• compound words
• words with silent letters
• homophones and easily confused spellings
• consonant digraphs
• time and calendar words
• multisyllabic words

The practice pages include the following:

• the spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word
• word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences, crossword puzzles, synonyms/antonyms)
• exercises with phonetic elements
• editing for spelling

Reproducible pages include:

• “How to Study Your List” page
• spelling strategies
• take-home spelling lists
• spelling record sheet
• individual spelling record
• spelling test form
• spelling list form
• crossword puzzle form
• master word list
• parent letter
• student spelling dictionary