• Memory and Pattern Words

    Adventures of the Superkids: Spelling Lists and Pattern Words

     

    Unit #1

     

    I, my, she, her, he, his

     

     

    -ish

    dish, fish, wish

    -ash

    dash, crash, trash

    -unch

    lunch, punch, crunch

    -atch

    catch, match, patch

    Unit #2

     

    where, what, why, when, which, who

     

    -ath

    bath, math, path

    -oth

    moth, cloth

    th-

    thin, think, thick

    th-

    then, them

    Unit #3

     

    do, have, show, how, me, a

     

    -ing

    king, sing, bring

    -ong

    long, song, strong

    -andle

    candle, handle

    -attle

    battle, cattle, rattle

    Unit #4

     

    look, your, the, was, are, for

     

    -er

    ever, never

    -ed  /ed/

    tested, rested

    -ed  /d/

    yelled, smelled

    -ed  /t/

    jumped, bumped

    Unit #5

     

    there, from, be, to, we, or

     

    help, helping, helped

     

    ask, asking, asked

     

    hug, hugging, hugged

     

    shop, shopping, shopped

    Unit #6

     

    said, only, you, out, of, here

     

    -o

    go, no, so

    -e

    be, he, me, she, we

    -i

    hi

    Unit #7

     

    oh, any, day, good, very, want

     

    -ame

    came, same, game

    -ide

    ride, side, wide

    -oke

    joke, broke, spoke

    -ute

    cute, flute

    Unit #8

     

    boy, two, about, girl, over, before

     

    trade, traded, trading

     

    smile, smiled, smiling

     

    hope, hoped, hoping

     

    use, used, using

     

    Unit #9

     

    would, could, some, one, new, were

     

    -ain

    pain, rain, train

    -oat

    boat, coat

    -eat

    eat, heat, seat

    -eep

    deep, keep, sleep

    Unit #10

     

    Contractions:

     

    didn’t, hasn’t, isn’t, aren’t, haven’t, wasn’t, weren’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t

     

    Trickers:

     

    can’t, don’t, won’t

     

    Memory Words and Pattern Words are introduced at the beginning of each unit.  At the end of a unit, students take a spelling test on ten words- all of the Memory Words and selected Pattern Words.  If a spelling list has contractions and/or trickers, children are tested on ten of those words instead of Pattern Words and Memory Words.

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