5th Grade Spelling words

[Alex]

Just helping DD with her spelling and grammar words for the test tomorrow. These seem way harder than I remember having at that age! Anyone have a 5th grader? Is this how it is?
ambidextrous
bilingual
brawny
candid
chaos
circumvent
congested
convene
counter
deity
dilapidated
din
disclose
disintegrate
dormant
drudge
impersonal
invariably
lithe
maneuver
nimble
nutritious
Olympian
optimistic
proclamation
rebuke
scholar
Spartan
subculture
superabundant
transitory
transpose
triathalon

 

[chell]

Wow. I still can't spell most of those. Thank goodness for F7.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

That does seem like way too hard words for a 5th grader. I had to stop and think about how to pronounce some of them!

 

[mommytotwo]

My stepson is in the fifth grade, and his spelling words weren't even close to those.

 

[Cindy B]

They actually seemed normal to me. I work with 6th graders, and the 6th graders use these words in language arts.

 

[Alex]

Maybe it depends where you are...

 

[C.Ann]

Certainly not the words I learned in 5th grade! Nice to see though - spelling is SOOOOOOOOO important!

 

[Serena]

My kids had words like that. I don't think I did though.

 

[Zurg]

Alex - way too hard for me.

 

[chager]

I know the public schools around here aren't even at that level in 8th grade However....my son already did some of those words in 2nd grade when he attended private school.(He's homeschooled now) He usually passed the pretest words and got to pick his own words for his spelling test.
I subbed in a 7th grade class a couple years ago that had a 10 word test and the longest word was 5 letters. I couldn't believe the number of kids that failed that test!!

I just had him try to spell the words without seeing them first he was able to do half of them right. He's 4th grade. I think I just found our spelling list for next week

I think the words are way harder then when I was in school. I'm sure I was in middle school before I had words that hard. Gotta love spellcheck

 

[Pin Wizard]

My fifth grader has his head on my leg and listened as I read through the list. He said he's never heard of these words, never mind having them as spelling or vocab words! Is she in a college program already?

 

[Alex]

Nope..parochial school....but 5th grade...

 

[Pin Wizard]

DS is also in parochial school here in FL. Hmmm...seeing major difference between MA and FL! We'll see how he does in his new school further north.

 

[paras4ri]

Originally posted by Alex
Nope..parochial school....but 5th grade...

I remember those sisters!!!!

The words compare to what DS had in 5th grade....and DD's 4th grade words aren't too far behind. Sometimes I have to really think to be sure I'm spelling them correctly when helping her.

 

[mudnuri]

hmm...DD7 has had some of those words this year....public school system

DD6 whose in 1st grade comes home on Monday's with a word mastery list- she's tested on Friday's..here's this weeks list..
They are all from a book they are reading...

alarm
sounded
private eye
handle
idea
wagon
yelling
hurry
hungry
middle
liver
strawberry
brook
sneaking
noise
brought
whoever
nobody
anybody
somebody

This is her advanced reading blocks mastery list...She's reading at late 2nd grade/early 3rd grade...she's 6 and in 1st grade.

Brandy

 

[Otto's Doll]

These are comparable to what my 5th grader has this year.

 

[browneyes]

My 2nd grader has had a couple of those words this year.

 

[tar heel]

They're not much harder than what my public school fourth grader gets, so I would expect him to have such words in fifth grade. One of his words last week was "unoccupied" -- do you realize how many adults cannot spell that word? I work with words and consider myself a good speller, but I still have to stop and think about whether the "c" or "p" is doubled. This week's list included "illuminate."

In my son's class, all the class gets most of the words. There are a few other words, though, just for struggling students and a few for the ones doing well. They all have the same number of spelling words, though. In earlier grades, the higher achieving students at extra words.