
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.
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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