Sitton Spelling Concepts: FIFTH GRADE

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1 Sitton Spelling Concepts: FIFTH GRADE EKS Focus: Verbs, roots and affixes, Greek/Latin roots, synonyms, antonyms, homophone Unit 1 Short and long vowels visual skills Unit 2 Short/long vowels Unit 3 regular/irregular verb forms Unit 4 silent consonants w t b k l Unit 5 Unit 6 /o/ spelling patterns /ou/ spelling patterns homophones (their, there, they re) Unit 7 Compound words Unit 8 Unit 9 Consonant digraphs Er suffix Unit 10 (re, ex, sub, dis, un, non) Unit 11 Contraction Unit 12 /e/ /i/ spelled with a y contractions Unit 13 Unit 14 Double letters /ou/ /ow/ spelling patterns Unit 15 /oi/ spelling patterns unstressed syllables obscure vowel sounds Unit 16 Plural rules Unit 17 Vowel followed by r spelling patterns /er/ /or/ Plural rules Unit 18 Suffix Comparative/superlative Unit 19 /ch/ spelling patterns /oi/ spelling patterns Unit 20 Latin roots Irregular verbs Unit 21 Greek and Latin roots (there, their, they re, there s theirs) Unit 22 suffixes Unit 23 Synonyms Visual skills Unit 24 Antonyms Singular. Plural, possessive Unit 25 Contraction Unit 26 /e/ /i/ spelled with a y homophones/homographs Page 1 of 1

2 Unit 27 Silent consonants Unit 28 /el/ spelling patterns er/or/ar double letters Unit 29 Silent g Unit 30 Irregular verbs /j/ spelling pattern /s/ spelling pattern Sitton Spelling Concepts: FIFTH GRADE Unit 32 /ou/ ou and ow irregular verb forms Unit 33 Consonant digraphs : there, their, they re there s theirs Unit 34 Unit 35 Silent letters Often confused words (homophone and look-alike) Unit 31 /er/ /el spelling patterns Page 2 of 2

3 Unit 2 A prefix is letters added to the beginning of a word. A suffix is letters added to the end of a word. Short and long vowels Unit 3 Frequent spelling patterns for /j/ are j, ge, gi, gy Regular and irregular verb forms Unit 6 Frequent spelling patterns for /o/ are o, al, au, and ow. : there, their, they re Unit 7 A suffix is letters added to the end of a word. Compound words Unit 9 Some words are spelled with consonant digraphs. Some words are spelled with consonant blends. -er suffix Unit 10 are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings. : re, ex, sub, dis, un, non Unit 11 A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an apostrophe replacing a letter or letters. s in contractions, singular possessives, and plural possessives Page 3 of 3

4 Unit 13 are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings. are words that have the same spelling, different meanings, and may have different pronunciations. Unit 15 Spelling patterns for /oi/ are oi and oy. Unstressed syllables in words obscure the vowel sound for spelling. Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ph Unit 16 Most nouns have a singular and a plural form. Unit 18 Comparative and superlative adjectives using er and est suffixes. Unit 20 A knowledge of Latin roots unlocks the meaning of many words. (Review voc, port, ped, struct from level 4; Introduce dict and contra) Some verbs have irregular verb forms : s, es, ed, ing, ly, ful Unit 21 A knowledge of Greek and Latin roots unlocks the meaning of many words (Introduce form, oct) : there, their, they re, there s, theirs Unit 23 Synonyms are words that have similar meanings. Visual skills support spelling and proofreading ability. Page 4 of 4

5 Unit 24 Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. Singular, singular possessive, plural, plural possessive nouns Unit 25 A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an apostrophe replacing a letter or letters. : ge, dge, gi, gy Unit 30 are words that sound the same but have different spelling and meanings. Frequent spelling patterns for /j/ are j, g, dge, gi, gy. Frequent spelling patterns for /s/ are s, ss, sc, ce, ci, cy. Synonyms and antonyms Unit 31 Soft syllable endings: le, el, al, er, or, ar Unit 32 Frequent spelling patterns for /ou/ are ou and ow. Irregular verb forms Unit 33 Some words are spelled with consonant digraphs. : there, their, they re, there s, theirs Page 5 of 5