Spelling Word List

Below is the list of spelling words first graders will learn throughout the year.  A trial test will be given on Wednesday each week.  If they get all the words correct on Wednesday, they are excused from the final test on Friday.

Initial consonants and word families

List 1        at, cat, hat, pat, rat, sat

List 2         in, fin, bin, tin, pin

List 3         jam, ram, yam, Pam, Sam, Ram

List 4        it, fit, hit, lit, sit

Final consonants and word families

List 5        if, is, fir, fill, sir

List 6        ham, him, bib, bag, sick, sack, chick

List 7        ax, sip, did, fax, dip, dad, fan, pan

Clusters

List 8        zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight , nine, ten

List 9        drop, frog, trot, prop, crop

List 10        spot, glob, clog, flog, flop, stop

List 11        fled, sled, glen, spell, stem, step

Digraphs

List 12        Beth, mesh, shed, shelf, shell, them, then

List 13        chug, much, such, chum, chunk

List 14        ship, thin, bath, chat, brush, sped, shop

Short Vowels

List 15        after, am, an, as, ask, bad, can, happy, that

List 16        red, hen, went, get, yes, help

List 17        box, on, mom, not, pot, shop, top

List 18        big, with, silk, his, little, think, this, into

List 19        up, cup, sun, but, bug, fun, jump

List 20        add, will, tell, off, egg, miss, grass, still

Long Vowels

List 21        because, boy, could, come, from, give, people, they

List 22        cake, make, take, came, late, name, chase, place, ate

List 23        time, like, hide, mine, bike, smile, write find

List 24        go, so, home, no, bone, joke, close, those

List 25        we, need, be, tree, see, me, teeth, maybe, here

List 26        eat, clean, each, read, seat, mean, please, scream

List 27        day, may, play, say, way, stay, away, today, May, clay

Sight Vocabulary

List 28        walk, want, was, what, when, where, who, why, with, word

Long I as Y

List 29        my, cry, by, try, fly, sky, shy, July

Double o's

List 30        look, book, took, good, shook, too, soon, spoon, food, school

Adding s

List 31        names, days, seats, cans, steps, kites, hands, stores

Adding es

List 32        kisses, wishes, beaches, boxes, buses, dresses, pouches, bunches

-ed and -ing endings

List 33        looked, looking, jumped, jumping, rested, resting

                    floated, floating

ar spellings

List 34        far, dark, hard, arm, car, farm, marvel, are