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Quarter 2
Week 1 ~
Words with or, ur, and oo sounds
Challenge
Words
1. thoroughbred
2. hurdle
3. earnest
4. hoarse
5. discourse
6. squirm
7. uproar
8. secure
9. urban
10. mature
11. fortunate
12. foreign
13. enormous
14. gorgeous
15. whirl
16. adore
17. thirsty
18. purchase
19. yearn
20. manicure
Week 1 ~
Basic Word List
1. horse
2. chore
3. firm
4. learn
5. dirty
6. curve
7. world
8. pure
9. board
10. course
11. heard
12. return
13. cure
14. score
15. worm
16. thirteen
17. worn
18. curl
19. shirt
20. search
Week 2 ~ Words with ou , o, oo, ir, ar, or and ur sounds
Challenge Word List
1. pounce
2. pudding
3. cocoon
4. awareness
5. fortunate
6. boundary
7. soothe
8. cushion
9. weary
10. fearsome
11. scrawny
12. marooned
13. pioneer
14. marvel
15. earnest
16. faucet
17. superb
18. startle
19. compare
20. squirm
Basic Word
List
1. howl
2. false
3. sauce
4. chore
5. return
6. hardly
7. dairy
8. charge
9. world
10. bounce
11. year
12. alarm
13. horse
14. curl
15. search
16. heard
17. couch
18. dirty
19. gear
20. spare
Week
3 ~ Homophones
Challenge
Word List
1. cereal
2. ceiling
3. genes
4. died
5. ore
6. choral
7. guessed
8. close
9. dense
10. presence
11. serial
12. sealing
13. jeans
14. dyed
15. oar
16. coral
17. guest
18. clothes
19. dents
20. presents
Basic Word
List
1. heard
2. herd
3. loan
4. lone
5. flea
6. flee
7. hall
8. haul
9. forth
10. fourth
11. heal
12. heel
13. steak
14. stake
15. pare
16. pear
17. berry
18. bury
19. groan
20. grown
Week
4 ~ Compound Words
Challenge
Word List
1. landmark
2. postscript
3. handkerchief
4. masterpiece
5. furthermore
6. submarine
7. whirlwind
8. hamburger
9. fieldtrip
10. videotape
11. nationwide
12. motorcycle
13. toothache
14. poison ivy
15. self-defense
16. loose-leaf
17. light-year
18. supermarket
19. flashbulb
20. knapsack
Basic Word
List
1. railroad
2. airport
3. seatbelt
4. everywhere
5. homesick
6. understand
7. background
8. anything
9. ninety-nine
10. already
11. fireplace
12. ourselves
13. all right
14. forever
15. breakfast
16. whenever
17. everything
18. meanwhile
19. afternoon
20. make-believe
Week 5 ~ Words with weak vowel sounds or vowel sounds and “l”
Challenge
Words
1. shoulder
2. trifle
3. cancel
4. recital
5. pretzel
6. trickle
7. regular
8. similar
9. corridor
10. error
11. decimal
12. solar
13. spiral
14. general
15. cancel
16. tremble
17. familiar
18. eraser
19. consider
20. director
Basic Word
List
1. harbor
2. final
3. middle
4. weather
5. labor
6. model
7. chapter
8. special
9. sugar
10. bottle
11. medal
12. collar
13. proper
14. towel
15. beggar
16. battle
17. trouble
18. shower
19. uncle
20. doctor
Week 6 ~ Words that end with ed or ing
Challenge
Words
1. breathing
2. urged
3. striving
4. forgetting
5. balanced
6. quizzed
7. drummed
8. stared
9. slammed
10. becoming
11. tiring
12. scrubbed
13. upsetting
14. damaged
15. permitted
16. cruising
17. wasted
18. bluffing
19. spinning
20. freezing
Basic Word
List
1. dancing
2. skipped
3. hiking
4. flipped
5. snapping
6. raced
7. landed
8. pleasing
9. checking
10. dared
11. dimmed
12. rubbing
13. striped
14. wasting
15. traced
16. stripped
17. tanning
18. smelling
19. phoning
20. fainted
Week 7 ~ Review Lists
Challenge
List
1. loose-leaf
2. toothache
3. whirlwind
4. corridor
5. decimal
6. bluffing
7. striving
8. quizzed
9. browse
10. faucet
11. poison ivy
12. video tape
13. familiar
14. trickle
15. consider
16. permitted
17. becoming
18. trousers
19. awkward
20. scald
Basic Word
List
1. railroad
2. homesick
3. seat belt
4. battle
5. beggar
6. smelling
7. dimmed
8. trouble
9. ninety-nine
10. proper
11. doctor
12. towel
13. medal
14. striped
15. checking
16. all right
17. uncle
18. fainted
19. hiking
Week 8 ~ spelling words that have k, ng or kw sounds
Challenge
Word List
1. aquatic
2. tropical
3. peculiar
4. conquer
5. anchor
6. request
7. stomachache
8. vacant
9. rascal
10. sequel
11. rinky-dink
12. comic
13. speckled
14. quiver
15. inquire
16. blanket
17. chuckle
18. volcano
19. scandal
20. freckled
Basic Word
List
1. shark
2. attack
3. risk
4. public
5. sink
6. question
7. electric
8. jacket
9. blank
10. ache
11. crooked
12. drink
13. topic
14. track
15. blanket
16. struck
17. mistake
18. junk
19. squirrel
20. stomach
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