Seventh Grade reading & spelling words
Seventh grade widens vocabulary across subjects: the words of science labs, history sources and literary analysis all arrive in the same year. These sixteen weeks build the content-area words that let a student read a textbook chapter once instead of three times.
Skills covered in Seventh Grade
- Content-area vocabulary in science, history and English
- Words with multiple meanings depending on subject
- Spelling accurately under time pressure
- Reading and holding longer informational passages
- Writing with more exact word choice
Who should start at this level?
- Your student reads slowly through textbook chapters
- Their essays repeat the same handful of words
- An older student who needs to catch up before high school
- A student who has sixth grade vocabulary secure
Sample Seventh Grade words
A dozen words taken from the first four weeks of the seventh grade sets.
- abbreviate
- abrupt
- accessible
- ambiguous
- ambitious
- amiable
- arbitrary
- lucid
- obsolete
- banish
- belligerent
- benevolent
Try a 60-second activity at home
Subject swap
- 1Flash the word and write it from memory.
- 2Ask which school subject the word belongs to.
- 3Ask for a sentence from that subject.
- 4Check the spelling and move on.
The sixteen Seventh Grade weeks
Week 1
abbreviate, abrupt, accessible…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 2Week 2
ambiguous, ambitious, amiable…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 3Week 3
arbitrary, lucid, obsolete…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 4Week 4
banish, belligerent, benevolent…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 5Week 5
enthrall, turmoil, chronic…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 6Week 6
comprise, concede, concise…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 7Week 7
contemplate, context, contradict…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 8Week 8
defer, deficient, degrade…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 9Week 9
renovate, devise, dictate…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 10Week 10
diverse, divert, document…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 11Week 11
endeavor, enhance, enrich…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 12Week 12
exclusive, exempt, exile…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 13Week 13
feasible, fluctuate, forfeit…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 14Week 14
hierarchy, hinder, homogeneous…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 15Week 15
incite, incompatible, indifferent…
10 words
Seventh Grade · Week 16Week 16
intervene, intimidate, intuitive…
10 words
Ready for the full week?
Start a whole week of 7 word sets free. No account needed.
Questions parents ask about Seventh Grade
My student is in seventh grade but reading well below. Where do we start?
Start where they succeed, not where their age says. Use the free reading check and expect to work upward from a lower grade.
Ten minutes a day really works at this age?
It works because it is short enough to actually happen every day. Consistency outperforms long weekend sessions.