First Grade Spelling List

This binder will enclose all of our first grade spelling lists
throughout the year. You will notice that the spelling lists
are put in the binder an entire month at a time. Currently in
this binder you will find all the spelling lists for September.
Your child will only be working on 1 spelling list per week. Also
in this binder you will find Monthly Spelling Choice Menus and
Speller’s Choice Homework Sheets. On Friday mornings your
child will return this binder to school to be checked.

Spelling Lessons 1-15 address 8 spelling words. However, on

the test there will be 10 words. The two additional words will
feature the same vowel pattern as those listed. Spelling
Lessons 16-30 address a total of 12 words. Your child will
only be tested on those 12 words. Spelling tests will occur
every other Friday unless otherwise noted. Please assist your
child each night and review his/her spelling homework nightly.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please e-mail

your child’s teacher if you have any questions,
Ms. Goregoitia [email protected]
Mrs. Hansen [email protected]
Mrs. McCooe [email protected]
 Nightly Spelling Homework
Each month your child will receive a monthly edition of our
Spelling Choice Menu. This “menu” lists a variety of activities to
help your child work with and apply our weekly spelling words.

Your child will choose one activity each night of the week
(Monday through Thursday) to complete from the Spelling
Choice Menu. This menu remains the same for an entire month,
so some activities will be repeated the following week(s) but
with different words.

Your child will complete each selected activity on a Speller’s

Choice Homework Sheet, which is supplied in his/her binder
behind each spelling list.

Please have your child circle the day of the week at the top of
the page and write the chosen activity in the space provided.
These sheets are double sided so you will only be using two full
pages per week.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please e-mail your
child’s teacher if you have any questions,

Ms. Goregoitia [email protected]

Mrs. Hansen [email protected]
Mrs. McCooe [email protected]
 Grade 1 Journey’s Spelling Lists Overview
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6
am if log yet up an
at
sat
is dot web bug bad
man him top pen mud cat
dad rip hot wet nut had
mat fit lot leg hug cat
pin ox hen tub ran
Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Lesson 11 Lesson 12
in on yes us that chin
will got let sun then chop
did fox red but this much
sit pop ten fun them chip
six not bed bus with rich
big hop get run bath chick
Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge:
grin,trip block,clock sled, step jump,must thick, tenth match,pitch

Lesson 13 Lesson 14 Lesson 15 Lesson 16 Lesson17 Lesson 18

ship came time so me play
shop make like go be grain
which brave kite home read sail
when late bike hole feet mail
whip gave white no tree may
fish shape drive rope keep rain
joke eat way
bone mean day
stove sea stay
poke these pain
Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge:
shell, graph waves, chases stripe, mice chose, wrote street, please paint,spray
Lesson 19 Lesson 20 Lesson 21 Lesson 22 Lesson 23 Lesson 24
show bedtime far her look soon
row sunset arm fern book new
grow bathtub yard girl good noon
low sailboat art sir hook zoo
blow flagpole jan stir brook boot
snow backpack bar bird took too
boat playpen barn fur foot moon
coat raincoat bark hurt shook blew
road inside card turn wood soup
toad himself yarn third hood you
Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge:
flown,toast rowboat,homemade smart, chart curl,first crook,hoof grew,scoop
Lesson 25 Lesson 26 Lesson 27 Lesson 28 Lesson 29 Lesson 30
how mix hard my sad even
now mixed harder try sadly open
cow hop hardest sky slow begin
owl hopped fast fly slowly baby
ouch hope faster by dust tiger
house hoping fastest dry dusty music
found run slow pie trick paper
out running slower cried tricky zero
gown use slowest night help table
town used sooner light helpful below
Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge: Challenge:
shout, power writing, grabbed shorter,shortest myself, quickly, because,silent
brighter hopeful
Spelling Lesson 1-short a

1. am
2. at
3. sat
4. man
5. dad
6. mat
7. map
8. cap
Spelling Lesson 2-short i

1. if
2. is
3. him
4. rip
5. fit
6. pin
7. kit
8. dim
Spelling Lesson 3-short o

1. log
2. dot
3. top
4. hot
5. lot
6. ox
7. dog
8. cot
Spelling Lesson 4-short e

1. yet
2. web
3. pen
4. wet
5. leg
6. hen
7. bet
8. peg
Spelling Lesson 5-short u

1. up
2. bug
3. mud
4. nut
5. hug
6. tub
7. pup
8. rug
Spelling Lesson 6-short a

1. an
2. bad
3. cat
4. had
5. ran
6. bat
7. mad
8. fan
Spelling Lesson 7-short i

1. in
2. will
3. did
4. sit
5. six
6. big
7. grin (discuss the beginning blend of /gr/)
8. trip (discuss the beginning blend of /tr/)
Spelling Lesson 8-short o

1. on
2. got
3. fox
4. pop
5. not
6. hop
7. block (discuss the beginning AND final blend)
8. clock (discuss the beginning AND final blend)
Spelling Lesson 9-short e

1. yes
2. let
3. red
4. ten
5. bed
6. get
7. sled (discuss the beginning blend)
8. step (discuss the beginning blend)
Spelling Lesson 10-short u

1. us
2. sun
3. but
4. fun
5. bus
6. run
7. jump (discuss the final blend)
8. must (discuss the final blend)
Spelling Lesson 11-/th/ blend

1. that
2. then
3. this
4. them
5. with
6. bath
7. thick (discuss the beginning AND final blend)
8. tenth (discuss the final blend)
Spelling Lesson 12-/ch/ blend

1. chin
2. chop
3. much
4. chip
5. rich
6. chick
7. match (discuss the final blend)
8. pitch (discuss the final blend)
Spelling Lesson 13-/sh/ and
/wh/ blend

1. ship
2. shop
3. which
4. when
5. whip
6. fish
7. shell (discuss the final double consonant)
8. graph (discuss ph sounds like /f/)
Spelling Lesson 14-long a
1. came
2. make
3. brave
4. late
5. gave
6. shape
7. waves (discuss the -s as a plural)
8. chases (discuss the -s as a plural)
Spelling Lesson 15-long i

1. time
2. like
3. kite
4. bike
5. white
6. drive
7. stripe
8. mice
Spelling Lesson 16-long o

1. so
2. go
3. home
4. hole
5. no
6. rope
7. joke
8. bone
9. stove
10. poke
11. chose
12. wrote
Spelling Lesson 17-long e

1. me
2. be
3. read
4. feet
5. tree
6. keep
7. eat
8. mean
9. sea (discuss the difference between sea & see)
10. these
11. street
12. please
Spelling Lesson 18-long a

1. play
2. grain
3. sail (discuss the difference between sail & sale)
4. mail (discuss the difference between mail & male)
5. may (discuss the difference between May & may)
6. rain
7. way
8. day
9. stay
10. pain
11. paint
12. spray
Spelling Lesson 19-long o

1. show
2. row
3. grow
4. low
5. blow
6. snow
7. boat
8. coat
9. road
10. toad
11. flown
12. toast
Spelling Lesson 20-compound
words

1. bedtime
2. bathtub
3. sunset
4. sailboat
5. flagpole
6. backpack
7. playpen
8. raincoat
9. inside
10. himself
11. rowboat
12. homemade
Spelling Lesson 21-Bossy r
with /ar/

1. far
2. arm
3. yard
4. art
5. jar
6. bar
7. barn
8. bark
9. card
10. yarn
11. smart
12. chart
Spelling Lesson 22-Bossy r

1. her
2. fern
3. girl
4. sir
5. stir
6. bird
7. fur
8. hurt
9. turn
10. third
11. curl
12. first
Spelling Lesson 23

1. look
2. book
3. good
4. hook
5. brook
6. took
7. foot
8. shook
9. wood (discuss the difference between wood & would)
10. hood
11. crook
12. hoof
Spelling Lesson 24

1. soon
2. new (discuss the difference between new & knew)
3. noon
4. zoo
5. boot
6. too (discuss the difference between to, too & two)
7. moon
8. blew (discuss the difference between blew & blue)
9. soup
10. you
11. grew
12. scoop
Spelling Lesson 25

1. how
2. now
3. cow
4. owl
5. ouch
6. house
7. found
8. out
9. gown
10. town
11. shout
12. power
Spelling Lesson 26-inflected
endings

1. mix
2. mixed
3. hop
4. hopped (discuss doubling the consonant to keep the
/o/ short sound)

5. hope
6. hoping (discuss dropping the e to add -ing)
7. run
8. running (discuss doubling the consonant to keep the
/u/ short sound)

9. use
10. used (discuss dropping the e to add -ed)
11. writing (discuss dropping the e to add -ing)
12. grabbed (discuss doubling the consonant to keep the
/a/ short sound)
Spelling Lesson 27-comparative
endings

1. hard
2. harder
3. hardest
4. fast
5. faster
6. fastest
7. slow
8. slower
9. slowest
10. sooner
11. shorter
12. shortest
Spelling Lesson 28

1. my
2. try
3. sky
4. fly
5. by
6. dry
7. pie
8. cried
9. night
10. light
11. myself
12. brighter
Spelling Lesson 29-inflected
endings

1. sad
2. sadly
3. slow
4. slowly
5. dust
6. dusty
7. trick
8. tricky
9. help
10. helpful
11. quickly
12. hopeful
Spelling Lesson 30

1. even
2. open
3. begin
4. baby
5. tiger
6. music
7. paper
8. zero
9. table
10. because
11. silent
12. below