Fourth Grade spelling words
16 weeks of fourth grade words, ten per week. Practise each list free online — your child hears the word, sees it flash, then writes it from memory — or print the cards.
Week 1· The Kitchen Surprise
- happen
- because
- kitchen
- picture
- little
- gather
- really
- different
- favorite
- surprise
Week 2· Morning with My Cousins
- morning
- hundred
- chicken
- together
- already
- garden
- people
- cousin
- against
- suddenly
Week 3· A Day at the Library
- thirsty
- holiday
- weather
- exercise
- carpet
- kindness
- library
- instead
- promise
- forward
Week 4· The Umbrella Business
- furniture
- calendar
- umbrella
- medicine
- business
- dangerous
- sandwich
- material
- musician
- vacation
Week 5· Grandma's Secret Recipe
- neighbor
- children
- yesterday
- chocolate
- recipe
- direction
- importance
- organize
- separate
- celebrate
Week 6· The Thousand-Mile Adventure
- thousand
- transport
- paragraph
- adventure
- valuable
- container
- observe
- opposite
- conclude
- dictionary
Week 7· The Fraction Detectives
- multiply
- division
- fraction
- subtract
- estimate
- quotient
- product
- remainder
- decimal
- equation
Week 8· Wild Weather
- mountain
- climate
- volcano
- desert
- tropical
- glacier
- harvest
- drought
- tornado
- hurricane
Week 9· Predators and Habitats
- mammal
- reptile
- amphibian
- habitat
- predator
- nutrient
- organism
- skeleton
- muscle
- digestion
Week 10· Pioneers and the Constitution
- ancestor
- colony
- pioneer
- explorer
- treaty
- monument
- government
- citizen
- liberty
- constitution
Week 11· Magnets, Molecules, and Space
- telescope
- microscope
- gravity
- planet
- satellite
- universe
- molecule
- chemical
- electric
- magnetic
Week 12· The Language Lab
- vocabulary
- sentence
- adjective
- adverb
- pronoun
- synonym
- antonym
- punctuation
- narrative
- summary
Week 13· The Geometry Challenge
- triangle
- rectangle
- perimeter
- diameter
- symmetry
- geometry
- measurement
- temperature
- distance
- innovation
Week 14· Inventors in the Laboratory
- invention
- technology
- industry
- factory
- machine
- engineer
- discovery
- science
- laboratory
- experiment
Week 15· Inside a Great Story
- character
- biography
- fiction
- chapter
- author
- illustration
- dialogue
- setting
- conflict
- theme
Week 16· A Festival of Democracy
- republic
- democracy
- election
- committee
- community
- tradition
- culture
- festival
- ceremony
- heritage
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