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Week 1
bridge, gravity, hungry, eclipse, secret, applaud, laundry, trouble, attract, twilight, between, describe, snowflake, freedom, slimy, glance, burglar, switch
DICTATION: We stood on the bridge to glance to glance at the eclipse.
Week 2
attach, where, sandwich, change, watch, singer, slippery, spring, gather, these, thread, athlete, worth, thirsty, whisper, whistle, awhile, nowhere
DICTATION: The thirsty athlete drank spring water to wet his whistle.
Week 3
fact, began, clasp, rapid, able, later, space, stranger, grade, display, main, explain, freight, neighbor, weigh, vein, April ankle
DICTATION: Please explain why the main display will end in April.
Week 4
then, else, edge, when, tenth, empty, sketch, spelling, easy, eager, sneakers, mean, fifteen, receive, piece, believe, people, squeeze
DICTATION: The girl was eager to receive her lost sneakers.
Week 5
since, which, inch, string, picnic, shrimp, title, mind, wild, decide, why, skyscraper, buy, right, lightning, write, cypress, bicycle
DICTATION: Which bicycle is the right one to buy?
Week 6
strong, wrong, copy, cloth, problem, bottom, whole, explode, control, shown, bowl, October, smoky, coach, throat, toast, doughnut, foe
DICTATION: I had no control when I saw the doughnuts in the bowl.
Week 7
blush, crutch, crunch, grumpy, much, umpire, uncle, none, does, fuel, cute, cubicle, human, future, usual, uniform, used, beautiful
DICTATION: My uncle wears a used uniform when he works as an umpire.
Week 8
follow, matter, summer, million. dollar, scissors, cattle, address, office, suppertime, blizzard, penny, wrapper, wallet, occurrence, village, collide, battle
DICTATION: All of the dollars in his wallet won't buy a million scissors.
Week 9
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, January, February, July, August, September, November, month, year, holiday, season, calendar, second, minute
DICTATION:The calendar says that school starts the first Wednesday in September.
Week 10
across, alone, among, brother, again, front, banana, appear, compass, pedal, given, heaven, mountain, ocean, cousin, purchase, often, color
DICTATION: I asked my brother to purchase a banana for me.
Week 11
didn't, that's they're, you're, couldn't, haven't, o'clock, we're, isn't, I'm, it's, who's, they'd, could've, they've, you'll, don't, aren't
BONUS: won't doesn't
DICTATION: I'm sure you'll be the one who's next.
Week 12
anyone, however, everything, himself, birthday, herself, somewhere, afternoon, chalkboard, daydream, downstairs, grandparents, breakfast, outfield, scarecrow, nobody, dragonfly, keyboard
BONUS: headache, baffled
DICTATION: Anyone would be surprised to find a scarecrow in the outfield.
Week 13
lived, living, rattled, rattling, studied, studying, traveled, traveling, changed, changing, appeared, appearing, raced, racing, hoped, hoping, wrapped, wrapping
BONUS: drenched, amusing
DICTATION: I was hoping we would be studying vertebrates.
Week 14
cleaner, cleanest, bigger, biggest, earlier, earliest, quicker, quickest, busier,busiest, rougher, roughest, heavier, heaviest, happier, happiest, lazier, laziest
BONUS: stories, luminous
DICTATION: Was the busiest dog happier than the laziest dog?
Week 15
early, earth, search, service, wonder, surface, curly, shirt, thirty, doctor, sailor, shower, bakery, another, barber, collar, worse, world
BONUS: absorb, belligerent
Dictation: I wonder if the service is worse at the bakery or the flower shop.
Week 16
leaf, leaves, wolf, wolves, potato, potatoes, roof, roofs, family, families, library, libraries, journey, journeys, hero, heroes, ditch, ditches
BONUS: casual, hermit
DICTATION: Will you eat one potato or two potatoes?
Week 17
also, bought, cough, almost, false, officer, soft, stalk, halt, faucet, saucer, caution, lawyer, awesome, stall, crawl, awful, because
BONUS: curtail, heirloom
DICTATION: Use caution because the faucet is leaking water.
Week 18
cinder, circle, cardinal, cereal, cycle, concert, dancer, celebrate, twice, dangerous, strange, ledge, damage, geography, gentle, signal, regular, sugar
BONUS: fickle, brawl
DICTATION: A loud concert is dangerous and may damage your hearing.
Week 19
shoes, clues, wound, junior, truth, duty, news, through, few, who, schoolroom, whose, conclusion, June, shampoo, cruel, choose, ruin
BONUS: tedious, especially
DICTATION: Is there any news about who ruined the schoolroom?
Week 20
voice, oyster, voyage, annoy, choice, avoid, appoint, enjoy, moisture, noise, drown, amount, fountain, crowded, southwest, thousand, four, pronounce
BONUS: foreign, frantic
DICTATION: Did you enjoy making a large amount of noise to annoy me?
Week 21
enough, tougher, fifty, pharmacy, alphabet, nephew, trophy, paragraph, telephone, photograph, giraffe, forest, figure, refrigerator, draft, phrase, traffic, chief
BONUS: peer, humdrum
DICTATION: My nephew told me the alphabet over the phone.
Week 22
frighten, flight, brighter, flashlight, mighty, delight, tighten, nightly, sight, brought, ought, thought, fought, caught, daughter, taught, naughty, fault
BONUS: lecture, agriculture
DICTATION: My daughter ought to use a brighter flashlight.
Week 23
calf, walked, ghost, gnawed, climber, wreath, listen, island, scent, wrench, judge, fasten, wrist, doubt, knock, answer, knelt, sign
BONUS: sacrifice, Lent
DICTATION: The calf walked to the door and gnawed on the wreath.
Week 24
action, fiction, mission, divide, division, attend, attention, pollute, pollution, express, expression, educate, education, music, musician, magic, magician, physician
BONUS: knickknack, souvenir
DICTATION: I'm on a mission to educate students about the problems of pollution.
Week 25
lazy, volcano, flavor, piano, recent, really, item, pilot, triangle, climate, gigantic, program, obey, puny, prepare, vacant, pulley, menu
BONUS: congratulations, receiving
DICTATION: The pilot saw the gigantic volcano erupt.
Week 26
herd, heard, clothes, close, hour, our, two, too, their, there, ceiling, sealing, shoot, chute, strait, straight, medal, medal
BONUS: metal, scavenger
DICTATION: I heard a herd of cattle heading straight for the strait.
Week 27
quiet, quite, angel, angle, already, all ready, desert, dessert, weather, whether, pitcher, picture, loose, lose, aisle, isle, dairy, diary
BONUS: bliss, encounter
DICTATION: The angel was quite quiet.
Week 28
hopeless, careless, homeless, tireless, hopeful, fearful, cheerful, careful, graceful, happily, friendly, angrily, swiftly, suddenly, darkness, goodness, sadness, kindness
BONUS: vanilla, cinnamon
DICTATION: The tireless volunteer was hopeful that she could help the homeless faimily.
North East States Unit
Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Delaware, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, capital
BONUS: Columbus, glamorous
South East States Unit
West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida
BONUS: Chocolate, narrative
DICTATION: My dad and I hope the chocolate we bought in Virginia does not melt on our drive to Tennessee.
Middle West States Unit
Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
West States Unit
Washington, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming, California, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii
Southwest Spelling Unit
Texas, region, interstate, New Mexico, united, boundary, Oklahoma, states, Canada, Arizona, America, highway, Atlantic, Pacific, ocean
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