5th Grade Spelling Lists Worksheets
24 printable 5th Grade phonics worksheets on Spelling Lists. Every sheet has an answer key — 24 in all. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: Greek Word Parts; Silent Letters — gn, kn, wr; nature, national, nation and natives; reverse, conversation, version and versus; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 1 to 31 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 5. 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 5, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
Choose a worksheet below, then open the large preview to zoom.
3 of 24 worksheets free · All Access opens the other 21 and all 24 answer keys
The free sheets download from this page as PDFs. Open to everyone.
Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
Members can add these sheets to a workbook of their own: My Workbooks.
All 24 worksheets in this set
- Spelling Study List 1: Greek Word Parts Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 2: Silent Letters — gn, kn, wr Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 3: nature, national, nation and natives Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 4: reverse, conversation, version and versus
- Spelling Study List 5: regularly, region, irregular and reign
- Spelling Study List 6: popular, population, unpopular and popularity
- Spelling Study List 7: injured, justice, juror and justify
- Spelling Study List 8: denomination, nominated, nominees and denominator
- Spelling Study List 9: special, respectful, suspicious and inspected
- Spelling Study List 10: recess, succeed, successful and access
- Spelling Study List 11: grateful, gratitude, ungrateful and congratulate
- Spelling Study List 12: enthusiast, enthusiastic, theology and verify
- Spelling Study List 13: The -ible Suffix
- Spelling Study List 14: The -ation Ending
- Spelling Study List 15: Adding the Suffix -ion (Making Nouns)
- Spelling Study List 16: The -ic Suffix
- Spelling Study List 17: Adding the Suffix -ous
- Spelling Study List 18: The -ent and -ant Suffixes
- Spelling Study List 19: The -ence and -ance Endings
- Spelling Study List 20: The -ory and -ary Suffixes
- Spelling Study List 21: The -ity Suffix
- Spelling Study List 22: The -ure Ending (Makes a Noun)
- Spelling Study List 23: Silent C in SC — The S Takes Over
- Spelling Study List 24: The -ure Ending (Makes a Noun)
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 5 the lists gather word families around a shared root, such as nature, nation and national, or reverse, version and conversation, with lists for Greek word parts and silent letters.
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.
Worksheet preview
The whole page is fitted when opened. Use +/−, click the page, or pinch to inspect details.
Stay Informed with Faith Schooling
Sign up for email updates about new free worksheet releases, homeschooling law changes in your state, and resources for homeschooling families.
Your email address stays with Faith Schooling. We never sell or share your information with third parties.