4th Grade Spelling Lists Worksheets
17 printable 4th Grade phonics worksheets on Spelling Lists. Every sheet has an answer key — 17 in all. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: Word Roots, port = carry; Word Roots, struct = build; astronaut, disaster, asteroid and disastrous; sympathy, pathetic, sympathetic and prediction; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 1 to 30 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 4. Every grade is on one page: Spelling Worksheets.
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 4, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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All 17 worksheets in this set
- Spelling Study List 1: Word Roots, port = carry Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 2: Word Roots, struct = build Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 3: astronaut, disaster, asteroid and disastrous Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 4: sympathy, pathetic, sympathetic and prediction
- Spelling Study List 5: meter, symmetric, metric and diameter
- Spelling Study List 6: microphone, microscope, microscopic and thermostat
- Spelling Study List 7: multiple, multiplication, multiply and multicultural
- Spelling Study List 8: interrupted, intermediate, international and interaction
- Spelling Study List 9: transformed, translation, transmitted and transfer
- Spelling Study List 10: invisible, impossible, incomplete and inexpensive
- Spelling Study List 11: When CH Says /K/
- Spelling Study List 12: The -cious and -tious Suffixes
- Spelling Study List 13: The -cian Suffix (People Who Do Things)
- Spelling Study List 14: Greek Root, photo — Light
- Spelling Study List 15: The Silent GH
- Spelling Study List 16: Word Roots, spect = look
- Spelling Study List 17: The -cious and -tious Suffixes
Teaching Spelling Lists
What it is
These are weekly lists grouped by one pattern each: the ai words one week, the aw words another, and further on, lists built on a single prefix or suffix. Every word on a list is there because it shares a spelling, so the list teaches a pattern rather than a random handful of words. In Grade 4 each list is built on one word root, such as port, struct, astro, path and meter, so astronaut sits beside disaster and asteroid.
When a child is ready
A child is ready for a list once the pattern behind it can already be read; spelling a pattern comes after reading it, not before.
If they struggle
If the end-of-week test keeps going badly, shorten the list and study by sound: say the word, count the sounds, write the pattern chunk first, then the rest of the word. Testing two or three words on Tuesday and Thursday finds the errors while there is still time to fix them.
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