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Unit 1


  Unit 1 Week 1

Clever Ideas

Vocabulary
:  brainstorm    muttered    flattened    official    frantically    original    gracious    stale

Spelling:  Short Vowels
Approaching Level: 
flat, tax, band, cash, past, bell, left, smell, when, list, mill, hint, plot, rot, blot, odd, plum, mud, lunch, gym
Challenge Words:  wealth, shop

On Level:  flat, cash, band, bell, left, shelf, wealth, grim, mill, hint, plot, dock, blot, odd, sum, plum, bluff, crunch, build, gym
Challenge Words: heavy, shovel

Beyond Level:  sandwich, clamped, shelves, sketches, heavy, wealth, alibi, grimace, miller, skimming, slipped, plots, dock, blot, smudge, plum, bluff, culprit, crunches, typical
Challenge Words:  shoveled, successful

Unit 1 Week 2

Think of Others

Vocabulary:  advise, desperately, hesitated, humiliated, inspiration, self-esteem, uncomfortably

Spelling:  Long a
Approaching Level:  major, clay, today, tray, paid, rail, drain, faint, aim, rain, save, cane, pale, face, crate, late, mane, break, weigh, they
Challenge Words:  replacement, railway

On Level:  major, clay, stray, today, bail, rail, drain, faint, claim, pale, face, graze, cane, slate, ache, steak, break, eight, they, obey
Challenge Words:  neighbor, railway

Beyond Level:  major, display, stray, railway, relay, bail, wailing, frail, fainting, claimed, remain, pale, parade, mistake, ache, nickname, break, steak, eighteen, obeyed
Challenge Words:  neighbor, celebrate


Unit 1 Week 3

Take Action

Vocabulary Words:  collapse, crisis, destruction, hazard, severe, substantial, unpredictable

Spelling Words:  Long e
Approaching Level:  maybe, zebra, beam, heal, please, leak, weep, seem, reef, deed, speech, feet, gene, scene, chief, either, key, money, busy, only
Challenge Words:  freedom, speak

On Level:  evening, zebra, breathe, league, squeaky, healer, sleek, indeed, reef, deed, speech, wheeze, concrete, scheme, belief, chief, honey, donkey, family, weary
Challenge Words:  appeal, freedom

Beyond Level:  evening, feline, breathe, league, creature, increased, appealing, tea, eerie, thirteen, succeed, wheeze, concrete, scheme, belief, chief, donkey, honeybee, mystery, weary
Challenge Words:  believe, serene


Unit 1 Week 4

Ideas In Motion

Vocabulary Words:  accelerate, advantage, capabilities, friction, gravity, identity, inquiry, thrilling

Spelling Words:  Long i
Approaching Level:  minding, climb, mind, pies, die, flight, sigh, kite, file, wipe, inside, pride, line, alike, time, twice, cry, sly, shy, spy
Challenge Words:  high, wildlife

On Level:  climb, minding, pies, die, height, sigh, fright, slight, drive, file, kite, prime, pride, slice, twice, wipe, pry, sly, shy, spy
Challenge Words:  highway, wildlife

Beyond Level:  shiny, climb, minding, reminded, wiping, die, height, frightened, lightning, sigh, slightly, tightly, filed, likely, prime, pride, twice, slyly, pry, spy
Challenge Words:  highway, analyze


Unit 1 Week 5

Putting Ideas to Work

Vocabulary Words:  compassionate, enterprise, exceptional, funds, innovative, process, routine, undertaking

Spelling Words:  Long o
Approaching Level:  bolt, most, mold, own, flow, tow, know, mows, lower, mole, stone, stove, chose, stole, sole, woke, goal, groan, foam, woe
Challenge Words:  coast, loan

On Level:  bolt, mold, toll, shadow, flow, mows, lower, blown, quote, mole, stone, stove, chose, sole, stole, goal, groan, load, roasting, woe
Challenge Words:  coaster, motor

Beyond Level:  mold, toll, motionless, slowly, lower, blown, closer, stovetop, chosen, poled, lonely, whole, quote, goalie, floating, soaked, groaned, loading, coaster, woefully
Challenge Words:  rotate, motorize



Unit 2

Unit 2 Week 1
Literary Lessons

Vocabulary:  attracted, dazzling, fabric, greed, honest, requested, soared, trudged

Approaching Level:  unblock, unborn, unchain, unload, unlock, recall, repay, resell, rewash, rewind, retie, indirect, incorrect, illegal, overact, overheat, subway, premix, preplan, superheat

On Level:  unblock, unborn, unchain, unload, unlock, recall, relearn, resell, rewash, rewind, imperfect, indirect, incorrect, illegal, overact, overheat, subway, premix, preplan, supersize

Beyond level:  unblock, unborn, unchained, unloaded, unlocked, recalled, relearned, reselling, rewashed, rewind, imperfect, indirectly, incorrectly, illegally, overacting, overheat, submarine, preseason, preplan, superpower

Unit 2 Week 2
Animals in Fiction

Vocabulary:  annoyed, attitude, commotion, cranky, familiar, frustrated, selfish, specialty

Approaching Level:  fifth, north, thanks, choose, touch, branch, couch, chef, chance, march, patch, ketchup, kitchen, rush, shed, whine, whirl, bring, graph, photo 

On Level:  thirty, width, northern, fifth, choose, touch, chef, chance, pitcher, kitchen, sketched, ketchup, snatch, stretching, rush, whine, whirl, bring, graph, photo

Beyond Level:  
width, bathtub, beach, touchdown, flinched, cherish, chef, charade, kitchen, sketched, ketchup, marshal, finished, whine, whirl, nowhere, bringing, photograph, physical, phase

Unit 2 Week 3
Natural Connections

Vocabulary:  crumbled, droughts, ecosystem, extinct, flourished, fragile, imbalance, ripples

Approaching Level:  shred, shrink, shrimp, shrunk, script, screech, screw, straps, strand, straight, sprout, sprang, spring, split, splash, thrill, throne, through, throb, throat

On Level:  
shred, shriek, shrimp, shrink, script, screw, screech, straighten, straps, strand, sprout, sprawl, sprang, splashing, splotch, thrill, throb, throat, thrift, through

Beyond Level:  shredding, shrink, shrugged, shriek, script, scrawny, screech, straighten, stringy, strand, sprout, sprawl, sprang, splashing, splotch, thrillingly, thrift, throughout, throb, throttle


Unit 2 Week 4
Adaptations

Vocabulary:  camouflaged, dribbles, extraordinary, poisonous, pounce, predator, prey, vibrations

Approaching Level:  dart, carpet, spark, yard, smart, large, far, bark, card, backyard, warp, door, fort, floor, stork, cord, worn, stormy, core, bore

On Level:  dart, guard, award, backyard, argue, spark, target, smart, charge, carpet, warp, door, fort, morning, stork, cord, worn, stormy, core, bore

Beyond Level:  
seminar, charcoal, guard, enlarge, barnyard, argue, spark, predator, guitar, charge, carpet, force, forward, morning, scorch, afford, uproar, aboard, Oregon, forecast

Unit 2 Week 5
Animals All Around

Vocabulary:  brittle, creative, descriptive, outstretched,

Approaching Level:  sickly, hardly, quickly, slowly, carefully, wonderful, thankful, graceful, spoonful, darkness, shapeless, ageless, illness, goodness, spotless, painless, weakness, darkest, clearest, oldest

On Level:  sickly, hardly, quickly, slowly, carefully, wonderful, beautiful, graceful, spoonful, darkness, shapeless, ageless, illness, goodness, spotless, painless, weakness, darkest, clearest, thoughtful

Beyond Level:  
acrobatic, gymnastic, fantastic, allergic, carefully, wonderful, beautifully, graceful, spoonful, darkness, shapeless, ageless, illness, goodness, spotless, painless, weakness, darkest, clearest, thoughtful


Unit 3

Unit 3 Week 1
Friendship

Vocabulary: acquaintance, cautiously, complementary, jumble, 
logical, scornfully, scrounging, trustworthy

Approaching Level:  person, herb, perfect, serve, worse, learn, pearl, dirty, birth, shirt, twirl, third, purse, curl, nurse, purr, hurl, turkey, turns, surf

On Level:  herb, person, sternly, serpent, worse, pearl, dirty, birth, shirt, twirl, swirl, purse, curl, curve, curb, hurl, turkey, turnip, purpose, blurred

Beyond Level: permit, emergency, herbs, sternly, serpent, superbly, pearl, swirl, whirlwind, birthmark, squirming, purse, curved, curbed, further, hurl, turkey, turnip, purpose, blurred

Unit 3 Week 2
Helping the Community

Vocabulary:  assigned, generosity, gingerly, mature, organizations, residents, scattered, selective

Approaching Level:  write, wrap, wrist, knew, knee, knot, knob, known, knives, crumb, combs, plumber, thumbs, lambs, climb, sign, doubt, hour, honest, honor

On Level:  wrinkle, wriggle, wrapper, wrench, answer, knead, knives, known, kneel, knew, plumber, combs, thumbs, lambs, condemn, resign, doubtful, hour, honesty, honor

Beyond Level: 
wrinkle, wriggle, wrapper, wreckage, wrench, knead, kneel, knives, knapsack, knowledge, combs, thumbs, lambs, plumber, assignment, resign, doubtless, autumn, honesty, honorable

Unit 3 Week 3
Liberty and Justice

Vocabulary:  boycott, encouragement, fulfill,
injustice, mistreated, protest, qualified, registered


Approaching Level:  center, once, dance, nice, chance, cement, police, ounce, strange, urge, orange, cage, bridge, change, germs, ginger, pages, arrange, sponge, village

On Level:  center, once, scene, spice, circus, cement, police, certain, ounce, glance, germs, bridge, badge, strange, orange, ginger, wedge, arrange, sponge, village

Beyond Level:  
officers, difference, scene, decision, circus, cement, audience, introduce, certain, ounce, passage, general, exchange, badge, manager, orange, gingerly, arranged, languages, villagers

Unit 3 Week 4
Powerful Words

Vocabulary:  address, divided, haste, opposed, perish, proclamation, shattered, tension

Approaching Level:  clams, mints, props, friends, dresses, parents, caves, glasses, hobbies, tigers, couches, arrows, holidays, babies, ranches, flowers, mistakes, berries, mosses, armies

On Level:  clams, mints, props, arches, dresses, parents, caves, glasses, hobbies, engines, couches, arrows, enemies, babies, ranches, patches, mistakes, supplies, mosses, armies

Beyond Level:  
tipis, mints, belongings, arches, dresses, parents, batteries, trophies, hobbies, engines, couches, arrows, enemies, babies, ranches, patches, mistakes, supplies, mosses, armies

Unit 3 Week 5
Feeding the World

Vocabulary:  advancements, agriculture, characteristics, concerns, disagreed, inherit, prevalent, resistance

Approaching Level:  fishbowl, lookout, yardstick, desktop, campfire, overhead, waterproof, grandparent, railroad, snowstorm, classroom, airport, bedroom, anyway, newborn, footstep, yourself, overdo, driveway, undertake

On Level:  fishbowl, lookout, yardstick, desktop, campfire, overhead, waterproof, grandparent, railroad, snowstorm, loudspeaker, bookcase, bedroom, blindfold, newborn, bedspread, yourself, overdo, clothesline, undertake

Beyond Level:  
fishbowl, courtroom, yardstick, heartbroken, campfire, overhead, waterproof, grandparent, teammate, snowstorm, loudspeaker, bookcase, skateboard, blindfold, eyesight, bedspread, undergrowth, gentleman, clothesline, undertake

Unit 4

Unit 4 Week 1
Government


Vocabulary: amendments, commitment, compromise, democracy, eventually, legislation, privilege, version

Approaching Level:  tasted, ripping, liked, flipping, tapped, flipped, cared, hopped, ripped, skipped, tapping, saved, skipping, caring, hopping, trimmed, saving, tasting, liking, trimming

On Level:  tasted, ripping, forced, flipping, tapped, flipped, scared, flagged, ripped, skipped, tapping, saved, skipping, scaring, flagging, discussed, saving, tasting, forcing, discussing

Beyond Level:  endured, strumming, exploded, flipping, admitted, flipped, outwitted, flagged, strummed, realized, exploding, admitting, skipping, appreciating, flagging, discussed, demonstrated, demonstrating, forcing, discussing


Unit 4 Week 2
Leadership


Vocabulary:  accompanies, campaign, governor, intend, opponent, overwhelming, tolerate, weary

Approaching Level:  funnier, families, pennies, worried, replied, babies, marries, carries, easily, silliest, flier, berries, copier, cries, happier, sorriest, prettily, lazier, happiest, dizziest

On Level:  funnier, families, pennies, worried, replied, varied, marries, carries, easily, silliest, jumpier, emptier, merrier, applied, cozily, sorriest, prettily, lazier, happiest, dizziest

Beyond Level:  
funnier, handily, pennies, worried, replied, varied, abilities, carries, easily, silliest, jumpier, emptier, merrier, societies, cozily, sorriest, communities, lazier, happiest, dizziest

Unit 4 Week 3
Breakthroughs

Vocabulary:  decade, directing, engineering, gleaming, scouted, squirmed, technology, tinkering

Approaching Level:  tooth, food, zoom, spool, new, grew, stew, tunes, true, clue, fruit, suit, group, you’ll, huge, July, used, cookie, wool, should

On Level:  mood, stoop, zoom, crew, stew, ruler, produce, issue, tutor, truth, bruised, juicy, suits, group, you’ll, huge, crook, wool, used, should

Beyond Level:  
boost, doodle, zoom, smooth, crew, shrewd, parachute, produce, tissue, truthful, tutor, bruised, juicy, suits, you’ll, huge, mute, communication, crooked, should

Unit 4 Week 4
Sky

Vocabulary:  astronomer, crescent, phases, rotates, series, 
sliver, specific, telescope

Approaching Level:  voices, noise, coin, loyal, mound, south, pound, hound, pouch, thousand, wound, grouch, cloud, cowboy, flower, tower, gown, frown, howl, brown

On Level:  noises, voices, rejoice, annoy, destroy, voyage, mound, south, pound, hound, pouch, thousand, wound, grouch, cowboy, gown, frown, howling, flower, tower

Beyond Level:   
void, hardboiled, rejoice, annoyance, destroy, voyage, mound, trouser, encounter, announce, thousand, wound, grouch, southpaw, nowadays, downtown, cowboy, prowl, empower, howling 

Unit 4 Week 5
Achievements

Vocabulary:  attain, dangling, hovering, triumph


Approaching Level:  fault, taught, laws, thaw, draw, awful, straw, awe, saw, raw, alter, halt, walk, chalk, talking, tall, caller, small, cough, false


On Level:  caught, laws, drawn, strawberry, straw, awe, shawl, alter, halt, talking, walker, chalk, stalk, small, caller, squall, cough, fought, thought, false


Beyond Level:  
daughter, dinosaur, applauded, caught, clause, audiences, because, vault, sprawling, strawberry, shawl, malt, halted, alteration, stalk, squall, wallpaper, sought, thoughtful, fought

Unit 5

Unit 5 Week 1
Making It Happen

Vocabulary:  bouquet, emotion, encircle, express, fussy, portraits, sparkles, whirl

Approaching Level:  dinner, dipper, finger, foggy, fossil, hello, holly, kitten, lesson, member, pillow, planner, plastic, problem, summer, swallow, thriller, traffic, welcome, willow

On Level:  blanket, blossom, dipper, distant, foggy, fossil, member, nodded, planner, plastic, rumbles, slender, summer, swallow, tablet, thriller, traffic, welcome, willow, witness

Beyond Level:  blanket, blossom, canyon, comfort, dipper, distant, foggy, fossil, magnet, palmetto, perhaps, planner, plastic, rumbles, slender, swallow, welcome, willow, windows, witness

Unit 5 Week 2
On the Move

Vocabulary:  plunging, prospector, scoffed, settlement, shrivel, territories, topple, withered

Approaching Level:  basic, major, paper, radar, razor, delay, return, fever, meter, secret, spicy, pilot, spider, tiny, spoken, stolen, ruby, truly, tulip, music

On Level:  famous, radar, razor, vacancy, beside, beyond, defend, delay, demand, prevent, secret, veto, bison, diver, cider, silence, clover, spoken, stolen, tulip

Beyond Level:  
beyond, weasel, famous, radar, razor, vacancy, decay, defense, delayed, demanding, prevention, rehearse, secretive, vetoed, bison, cider, finance, silence, spoken, humid

Unit 5 Week 3
Inventions

Vocabulary:  dizzy, experiment, genuine, hilarious, mischief, nowadays, politician, procedure

Approaching Level:  brain, bait, staircase, remain, trainer, domain, oatmeal, beneath, repeat, defeat, reveal, sneak, steam, boat, discount, compound, tree, between, speed, balloon

On Level:  brain, staircase, domain, praise, trainer, oatmeal, beneath, repeat, reveal, increase, sneak, boast, afloat, croak, compound, discount, speed, sleeve, sheep, baboon

Beyond Level:  
afraid, maintain, quail, sprain, trainer, oatmeal, beneath, defeat, revealing, repeated, sneaker, afloat, boast, croaking, woeful, discounted, accountable, sheepish, speeding, baboon

Unit 5 Week 4
Zoom In

Vocabulary:  cling, dissolves, gritty, humid, magnify, microscope, mingle, typical

Approaching Level:  cleaner, pepper, barber, grader, polar, tanker, singer, enter, odor, collar, zipper, powder, danger, solar, dollar, trainer, motor, actor, skater, victor

On Level:  grocer, pepper, barber, grader, polar, tanker, singer, enter, odor, collar, zipper, powder, danger, cheddar, popular, harbor, anchor, elevator, daughter, victor

Beyond Level:  
grocery, professor, barbershop, grammar, polar, tractor, composer, ranger, odor, collar, waiter, powder, danger, cheddar, popular, harbor, anchor, elevator, daughter, victory

Unit 5 Week 5
Digging Up the Past

Vocabulary:  archaeology, document, era, evidence, expedition, permanent, tremendous, uncover

Approaching Level:  pebble, able, table, double, uncle, cuddle, bundle, candle, cradle, fiddle, waffle, juggle, tackle, ankle, couple, maple, turtle, battle, bottle, hustle

On Level:  pebble, humble, double, gamble, trouble, uncle, needle, fiddle, cuddle, cradle, jungle, single, marble, ramble, tackle, ankle, freckle, buckle, hustle, tangle

Beyond Level:  
scribble, trouble, gamble, humble, pebble, bicycle, needle, cradle, ruffle, single, jungle, struggle, scramble, marble, ankle, freckle, buckle, wrinkle, hustle, stifle

Unit 6

Unit 6 Week 1
Old and New

Vocabulary:  ancestors, despised, endurance, forfeit, honor, intensity, irritating, retreated

Approaching Level:  woman, shaken, garden, eleven, ripen, kitten, widen, open, robin, cousin, muffin, button, reason, cotton, dragon, person, common, season, wagon, lemon


On Level:  shaken, sunken, eleven, woven, widen, ridden, proven, often, robin, cousin, raisin, muffin, penguin, button, reason, cotton, wagon, dragon, common, skeleton 

Beyond Level:  fasten, sunken, eleven, woven, straighten, kitchen, oxygen, mistaken, proven, often, certain, mountain, cousin, raisin, muffin, penguin, salmon, pardon, common, skeleton

Unit 6 Week 2
Notes from the Past

Vocabulary:  depicts, detested, discarded, eldest, ignored, obedience, refuge, treacherous

Approaching Level:  root, tale, peak, tail, prince, dough, oar, prints, herd, heard, whose, who’s, route, blue, blew, peek, need, knead, doe, ore

On Level:  root, tale, wade, tail, prince, dough, moose, prints, we’ve, weave, whose, who’s, route, boulder, bolder, weighed, patience, patients, doe, mousse

Beyond Level:  
taught, principle, straight, strait, principal, presence, dough, moose, presents, weather, whether, whose, who’s, taut, boulder, bolder, patience, patients, doe, mousse

Unit 6 Week3
Resources

Vocabulary:  coincidence, consequences, consume, converted, efficient, incredible, installed, renewable

Approaching Level:  disorder, displease, distaste, distrust, disloyal, misplace, mislabel, mislead, misstep, misnumber, nonfat, nonfiction, nonsense, nonstop, unable, unplug, unkind, unfair, uncover, unclean

On Level:  discourage, disappoint, disbelief, distrust, disloyal, misplace, mislabel, mislead, misstep, misnumber, nonfat, nonfiction, nonsense, nonstop, unable, unplug, uncertain, uncomfortable, uncover, unclean


Beyond Level:  
discourage, disappointment, disbelief, disappear, disloyal, mismanage, misheard, misfortune, misstep, misnumber, nonessential, nonfiction, nonsense, nonspecific, unable, unofficial, uncertain, uncomfortable, unpredictable, unnecessary

Unit 6 Week 4
Money Matters

Vocabulary:  currency, economics, entrepreneur, global, 
invest, marketplace, merchandise, transaction


Approaching Level:  wireless, sunny, furry, really, hairy, barely, tasteless, handful, lifeless, fitness, hopeful, shortness, fullness, foggy, purely, sickness, joyful, hopeless, cordless, hardly

On Level:  wireless, sunny, furry, really, hairy, barely, tasteless, handful, lifeless, fitness, hopefully, happiness, fullness, sorrowful, gently, sickness, joyfully, aimless, breathless, certainly

Beyond Level:  
wireless, casually, furry, constantly, hurriedly, barely, tasteless, wonderful, lifeless, fitness, hopefully, happiness, truthfulness, sorrowful, assuredly, foolishness, annually, aimless, breathlessly, certainly

Unit 6 Week5
Finding My Place

Vocabulary:  gobble, individuality, mist, roots

Approaching Level:  unchanged, unnamed, restate, reverse, underdog, invisible, prepaid, displease, action, establishment, oversized, prepack, interstate, intersect, deplane, semiweekly, happily, kindness, finally, fearful

On Level:  unchanged, unnamed, restate, reverse, infrequent, invisible, prepaid, displease, action, establishment, oversized, prejudge, interstate, intersect, deflate, semiweekly, happily, kindness, finally, fearful

Beyond Level:  
unchanged, unnamed, restated, reversible, infrequently, invisible, prepaid, displeased, inaction, establishment, oversized, prejudged, interstate, intersection, deflate, semiweekly, happily, kindness, finally, fearful






























































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