Theme 1
| The Gardner | Donovan’s Word Jar | My Name is Maria Isabel | Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man | Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride |
| Words with long and short a played escape thank subway gray safely mistake greatest break after planting scratch address holiday natural paragraph blanket capital taken cabin |
Words with long and short e asleep empty queen deal needed spelling east feelings tea keeping beneath agree elevator coffee suggested method feature metal disease television |
Words with long and short i mine tie wild type smile drive size blind visit thick die prize fifty picnic arrived decide child civil divide library |
Words with long and short o
and u
|
Words with oo loop wounded shoot booth broom boost mood fooling afternoon room smooth tooth raccoon bloomed souvenir routine roofs loose coop stoop |
Theme 2
|
The Baker’s Neighbor |
The Emperor and the Kite | Nights of the Pufflings | The Garden of Happiness | “How to Babysit and Orangutan” |
| Words with /är/ carved garden harm farther barked alarm chart starved harder parked smartest charge guard argument hardware garbage harsh parts radar harbor |
Words with /ôr/ sound pour orbit fourth source sports forward force order wore yourself support sore orange anymore ignore portrait border course tornado your |
Words with the /âr/ sound cared dairy unfair rarely stared dared glare airplanes barely farewell software staircase everywhere declare square therefore despair prepared beware repair |
Words with /ûr/ curve learned curly pearl purse further turtle urgent burning hurried earth earned purpose surface overheard rehearse current disturb furniture research |
Words with /ou/ ground frown downtown bounced council about scout counter background amount bound shower mountain county thousand allowance counselor discount countless rebound |
Theme 3
| Sarah Plain
and Tall |
Stealing Home |
The Cricket in
Times Square
|
Two Lands, One Heart | Look to the North |
| Words with /oi/
sound boiled annoyed choices poison employer joining spoiled voices destroyed pointing avoided enjoying employee voyage appointed poisonous foil loyal noisy disappointed |
Unusual plurals shelves sheep teeth elves mice calves spacecraft jeans feet women men geese salmon series scissors halves oxen crises knives thieves |
Words showing
possession team’s player’s bird’s wolf’s horse’s class’s group’s girls’ student’s trees’ parents’ owners’ cousins’ teachers’ aunts’ friend’s children’s city’s classes’ country’s |
Words with
abbreviations Mt. Mount Dr. Doctor Jan. January Rte. Route Rd. road St. Street Fri. Friday lb. Pound Ave. Avenue Dec. December tsp. teaspoon Sat. Saturday Wed. Wednesday Gov. governor Pres. President Hwy. Highway Sept. September Pkwy. Parkway Sun. Sunday Mon. Monday |
Words with ei,ie and eigh weighs ceiling field reindeer freight eighteen neighbor receive weird chief believe seize either fierce relief windshield pierce thief achieve eighth |
Theme 4
| The Kid’s Invention Book | The Case of Pablo’s Nose | In the Days of King Adobe | Red Writing Hood | One Grain of Rice |
| Words ending with y or ey tiny hockey heavy every money turkey early hungry already valley nobody monkey company country ability steady everybody industry activity honey |
Prefixes un and dis unused dislike unclean unheard disagree disabled unkind unfriendly unable unhappy unsafe disobey uncertain disappear undecided dishonest disadvantage distrust unknown unlike |
Prefixes non, in and re nonstop replaced inactive refill incorrect rethink nonfat reread retell return incomplete repay nonfiction nonsense indirect independent invisible nonprofit redo relocate |
Changing y to i families worried ugliest funnier happily easily heavier earlier tiniest supplied luckily relied activities countries enemies scurried libraries prettier readily carried |
Suffixes ion, ness, able, and ful addition sadness lovable endless handful plentiful breathless happiness solution careful function stillness information celebration capable available believable careless reusable forgiveness |
Theme 5
| Fire |
A Very Important Day | Saguaro Cactus |
Blue Willow | In My Family |
| Words with er, or, ar doctor dollar power sugar corner collar danger ladder labor cellar other motor hunger calendar horror officer finger director master regular |
Words with al or le table final handle personal animal usual jungle actual example bottle possible single several national hospital trouble candle dial equal jingle |
Words with an, en, or on pollen even urban seven kitchen reason human season burden wagon oven dragon horizon orphan sudden eleven button canyon slogan golden |
add ed or ing stepped entered reaching allowing argued speaking reading unfolding finished closing hugged belonged divided determined rewarding occurred controlled injured permitting practicing |
Words with silent letters lamb often castle listen comb climbed fasten crumbs soften thumb doubt whistle honest rhyme answer column numb tomb glisten hasten |
Theme 6
| The Gold Rush |
I Have Heard of a Land |
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox | Fly Traps! The Plant That Bites Back | The Down and Up Fall |
| Contractions hasn’t I’ve I’d we’ve wouldn’t you’d haven’t wasn’t they’ve you’ve she’d didn’t won’t shouldn’t couldn’t weren’t we’d hadn’t they’d don’t |
Homophones some sum tale plains close blew piece clothes tail planes blue peace night knight peddle pedal sight site stake steak |
vccv words practice members dinner suppose except problem shallow stubborn logger cotton object shelter distance pattern captive publish sitting tractor servant hidden |
vcv words major cedar spiders locate ruler motive raven pilot silent super paper native rivals solar bison legal humor moment nature virus |
Words with three syllables difficult probably beginning direction discover excellent important imagine energy remember different another beautiful dangerous government interest becoming description engineer wonderful |