-All school year the students will:

-Develop mastery of given word lists at level four

-Use correct and accurate spelling in all subject areas

-Develop vocabulary meanings of different words

-Use correct proofreading skills

-Use words from spelling lists in sentence format

-Identify words that match given definitions

-Apply spelling strategies

-Learn the spelling principles for short and long "a" words

-Learn the spelling principles for short and long "e" words

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles

for short and long "i" words

-Learn the spelling principles

for short and long "o" words

principles for homophones

-Review units 1-5

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles for short "u" and long "yoo" and "oo" words

-Learn the spelling principles for short and long "oo" words

-Learn the spelling principles for short "ou" and "o"words

-Learn the spelling principles for "air," "ar," and "eer" words

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles for "ore," "ur/ir/or," and "ure" words

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Review units 7-11

-Learn the spelling principles compound words

-Learn the spelling principles for the final "ar," "or," and "er" words

A. Use correct grammar,

spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and structure

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles for "le," "el," and "al"

-Learn the spelling principles for words ending with –ed and –ing

-Learn the spelling principles for words with final long "e" – (y and ey)

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Review units 13-17

-Learn the spelling principles

for word with the sound "k," "ck," "c " "qw," and "nk"

-Learn the spelling principles for words with "j," and "s" sounds

-Learn the spelling principles for words with prefixes

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles for vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel words

-Learn the spelling  principles

for more vowel, consonant,

consonant, vowel, words

-Review units – 19-23

-Learn the spelling principles

for words changing final "y" to "i"

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles for vowel, consonant, vowel words

-Learn the spelling principles for more words with vowel, consonant, vowel words

-Learn the spelling principles for words with suffixes 

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Review units 25-29

-Learn the spelling principles for vowel, consonant, vowel

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation

words

-Learn the spelling principles

for vowel, consonant,

consonant, vowel patterns

and vowel, consonant,

vowel patterns

-Learn the spelling principles

for three syllable words

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences

-Learn the spelling principles for words with silent consonants

-Learn the spelling principles for words with unusual spellings

Write to communicate for a variety of purposes

A. Use correct grammar,

Daily work

Weekly spelling

tests

Dictation sentences