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Unit 1

The Lost Lake
Vocabulary:  brand-new, compass, darted, mug, muttered, talker
Spelling:  drank, rest, ahead, drink, dock, hung, trouble, magazines, self, deaf, lift, flock, trust, cousin, cannon, swept, pleasant, fist, couple, wealth

Amelia's Road
Vocabulary:  accidental, labored, occasions, rhythms, shortcut, shutters
Spelling:  cape, gray, station, rail, freight, agree, teacher, secret, family, cane, crayon, cable, fail, tea, zebra, rusty, raisin, bean, tidy

Sarah, Plain and Tall
Vocabulary:  eerie, huddled, overalls, pesky, reins, squall
Spelling:  tiger, drive, reply, roll, note, crow, oak, iron, alike, supply, tomato, stove, below, groan, title, pine, overhead, chose, hollow, file

Seal Journey
Vocabulary:  assured, horizon, jagged, mature, nursery, squealed
Spelling:  ruler, avenue, raccoon, loose, commute, continue, gloomy, until, whose, humor, improve, beautiful, cube, stool, movement, ruin, bugle, argue, community, tuna

Time for Kids:  Open Wide, Don't Bite!
Vocabulary:  broad, fangs, patients, healthy, reptiles, skills
Spelling:  dentist, crown, hospital, medicine, diet, gums, gland, joint, fever, chewing, brain, cavity, disease, plaque, vitamin, ache, dental, clinic, oral, molars

Unit 2

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

Vocabulary:  festival, guilt, inspecting, lingered, pranced, resounded

Syllable patterns
Spelling:  biscuit, cabin, local, razor, clover, plastic, mustard, fancy, public, radar, pupil, limit, oven, mitten, sofa, famous, bandage, knapsack, welcome, item
    Challenge Words:  festival, guilt, inspecting, lingered, resounded


Just a Dream

Vocabulary:  bulging, crumpled, foul, haze, shrieking, waddled

Words with consonant clusters
Spelling:  blank, bridge, brand, credit, daring, float, among, darling, claim, plank, flatter, flutter, flour, classified, clothesline, clatter, crack, cradle, bridle
    Challenge Words:  bulging, crumpled, haze, shrieking, waddled


Leah's Pony

Vocabulary:  bidding, clustered, county, glistened, overflowing, sturdy

Words with consonant clusters
Spelling:  thrill, sprint, stern, stung, spruce, spare, spectacle, sparkle, stand, threw, strap, stress, speed, stranger, thrifty, special, stretch, springtime, street, steak
Challenge Words:  clustered, county, glistened, overflowing, sturdy


Baseball Saved Us

Vocabulary:  crate, ditches, endless, glinting, inning, mound

Plurals
Spelling:  cities, engines, eyelashes, sunglasses, mistakes, soldiers, uniforms, groceries, foxes, ranches, batteries, loaves, babies, hobbies, calves, mattresses, knives, yourselves, shovels, ferries
Challenge Words:  crate, ditches, endless, glinting, inning


Time For Kids:  Will Her Native Language Disappear?

Vocabulary:  backgrounds, century, communicate, extinct, generations, native

Words from Social Studies
Spelling:  language, accent, folktale, symbol, history, tribe, practice, guide, pottery, human, relatives, totem, study, custom, interview, colony, spoken, village, region, prints
Challenge Words:  extinct, native, backgrounds, generations, century

Unit 3

The Hatmaker's Sign

Vocabulary:  admitted, brisk, displaying, elegantly, strolling, wharf

Spelling:  oily, annoy, around, growl, disappoint, royalty, bounce, bowing, moist, enjoyment, aloud, tower, avoid, employ, lookout, however, appointment, scout, powder, noun

Pat Cummings:  My Story

Vocabulary:  exist, image, inspire, loft, reference, sketch

Spelling:  curious, pure, fully, sure, wooden, should,furious, cure, handful, crooked, would, bulldozer, soot, tour, butcher, woolen, pudding, goodness, pulley, overlook

Grass Sandals:  The Travels of Basho

Vocabulary:  chanted, nipped pouch, restless, scribbled, stitching

Spelling:  changed, watch, fresh, shoulder, whatever, south, chimney, scratch, shove, wheat, cloth, themselves, crunch, batch, harsh, whittle, thoughtful, birch, switch, theater

A Place Called Freedom

Vocabulary:  fretted, gourd, plantation, settlement, sunrise, weary

Spelling:  freed, hugged, emptied, figured, budding, carried, believed, dimmed, studied, providing, shedding, sledding, magnified, wedged, rotting, varied, arrived, plugging, rising, celebrated

Time For Kids:  Twisted Trails

Vocabulary:  challenge, combine, contained, entertaining, mazes, requires

Spelling:  designs, artist, building, activity, museum, art, create, master, poster, statue, assemble, craft, express, arrange, professional, mold, easel, plaster, masterpiece, exhibit

Unit 4

Scruffy:  A Wolf Finds His Place In the Pack
Vocabulary:  affection, climate, clinging, injury, methods, threat
Spelling:  awful, daughter, roar, order, office, toward, already, brought, form, author, false, jaw, offer, sauce, chorus, dawn, hoarse, war board, cough

Gluskabe and the Snow Bird

Vocabulary:  confusion, freeze, hilltop, lodge, messenger, praised

Spelling:  apart, hardly, yarn, army, marbles, repair careful, scare, somewhere, wear, starve, barber, carnival, carpet, unfair, therefore, dairy, hare, prepare, pear

Meet an Underwater Explorer

Vocabulary:  connected, endangered, haul, overcome, poisonous, sponge

Spelling:  fern, curve, worst, shirt, clear, mere, cheer, serious, germ, burst, worse, swirl, gear, sincerely, volunteer, period, insert, purpose, twirling, spear

On The Bus with Joanna Cole

Vocabulary:  abandon, absorb, available, original, research, traditional

Spelling:  bedroom, anymore, everybody, classroom, anyway, backyard, railroad, forever, bathtub, homemade, outline, windowpane, evergreens, grandparents, photocopy, whirlwind, loudspeaker, northwest, thunderstorm, bedspread

Time for Kids:  Earth's First Creatures

Vocabulary:  ancestors, disaster, microscope, snout, spikes, weird

Spelling:  shells, crabs, liquid, fact, butterfly, discovered, cast, lobster, hatch, expert, mineral, dolphin, systems, clam, imprint, kelp, caterpillar, depth, skeleton, fungus

Unit 5

The Fox and the Guinea Pig

Vocabulary:  amazement, destroyed, eldest, fowl, stake, strewn

Spelling:  mess, sorry, balance, police, classic, rough, certain, telephone, surprise, elephant, laughter, citizen, advice, photograph, cider, alphabet, triumph, careless, tough, enormous

Mom's Best Friend

Vocabulary:  clippers, errands, instinct, memorizing, relieved, sirens

Spelling:  brother, honor, either, popular, number, pictures, odor, enter, vinegar, capture, member, nature, tender, visitor, polar, anchor, pasture, chapter, suffer, furniture

The Rajah's Rice

Vocabulary:  attendants, awkwardly, celebration, knowledge, released, spice

Spelling:  final, uncle, several, model, terrible, pencil, lion, taken, simple, women, reason, gentle, total, settle, level, medical, evil, listen, common, cotton

Yeh-Shen:  A Cinderella Story from China

Vocabulary:  beloved, bid, desire, heaved, marveled, permit

Spelling:  that's he'll, wasn't, what's, I'd, there's, couldn't, he'd,could've, let's, they'll, weren't, here's, she'd, who's, it'll, hadn't, they'd, where's, wouldn't

Time For Kids:  Can We Rescue the Reefs?

Vocabulary:  coral, damage, loosened, percent, reefs, ton

Spelling:  rescue, survival, channel, vessel, expose, dying, shelter, extreme, danger, protect, seaweed, creatures, dissolve, motion, feature, adapt, locate, assist, future, divers

Unit 6

Teammates

Vocabulary:  circulated, extraordinary, launched, opponents, organizations, teammmate

Spelling:  knew, climb, although, knight, writer, knob, numb, delight, wren, knead, plumber, chalk, midnight, wreck, stalk, kneel, sought, thorough, wrestle

The Malachite Palace

Vocabulary:  cultured, feeble, fragrance, mingled, resembled, scampered

Spelling:  seen, great, light, beat, lean, scene, beet, bowl, grate, fan, peak, post, pail, bury, punch, pale, grave, berry, peek, dates

The Toothpaste Millionaire

Vocabulary:  brilliant, commercials, expensive, gallon, ingredient, successful

Spelling:  useless, entertainment, construction, adjustable, darkness, motionless, description, measurement, adorable, breathless, fairness, government, protection, dependable, sickness, hopeless, production, enjoyable, greatness

Whales

Vocabulary:  identify, mammals, marine, pods, preserve, related

Spelling:  redo, unkind, disappear, reread, nonfat, inactive, international, unlucky, dislike, unpack, nonstop, refill, uncertain, interstate, incomplete, rewind, unsure, disagree, reheat, nonsense

Time For Kids:  Saving the Everglades

Vocabulary:  compares, importance, instance, lurk, soggy, wildlife

Spelling:  area, hundreds, size, billions, weight, minute, noon, cone, yard, edge, amount, cylinder, zero, figure, calendar, quart,decade, rectangle, era, length
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