Spelling and ABC orderGrade 4
4th grade spelling words
A practice chart for fourth graders that draws words from a list of 40, including accept and except, separate, receive and environment. Choose how many words to print and cover them to recall them.
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Why these words
Fourth graders write longer words and use them in reports and stories, and some of those words are easy to get wrong. The list for this page includes pairs that are confused often (accept and except), words with a stubborn middle (separate, environment, government) and words with unusual letter groups (eighth, height, weight, ceiling, receive).
What prints
The sheet carries the title "4th Grade Spelling Words", a name and date line, and a chart with four labeled columns. The headings, left to right, are Word, then two Write boxes, then Cover and write. Words print in bold in the first column. The row height shrinks a little if you ask for 20 words, so the page still fits on one sheet. No answer key is created, as the spelling is on the page.
The 4th grade list
All 40 words in the generator:
accept, except, ancient, area, attention, balance, cabinet, ceiling, certain, column, community, describe, discover, eighth, environment, especially, explain, foreign, government, guess, height, imagine, knowledge, language, library, machine, natural, opposite, popular, receive, remember, separate, several, similar, temperature, therefore, thousand, position, village, weight
Each print shuffles the full list and shows the number you pick.
The settings
- Sheet switches between the practice chart and blank test paper.
- Words is set to the 4th grade list here, with other grades and "My own words" in the same menu.
- Number of words can be 5 to 20, and the page opens with 15.
Worked example: three trouble spots
Say the page contains separate, receive, environment, accept and weight.
- Separate hides "a rat": sep-a-rat-e. A children's memory hook like this helps a lot with the middle vowel.
- Receive follows "i before e, except after c". Write it with the pair after the c. Then note that weight is another exception, with eigh.
- In environment, point to the n before the m, which is the letter people drop when they say it quickly.
- Accept begins with a, as in "agree", and except begins with e, as in "exclude". Write each in a short sentence on the back.
- Fold the page and write all five again from memory in the last column.
Words that fail twice earn a place on a card by the child's desk for a week.
Keeping it going
Fifteen words is plenty for one week. Spread them over four short sittings and use the blank spelling test on day five. When the list gets comfortable, try the 5th grade spelling words, or build your own set on the spelling practice worksheet.