4th Grade Spelling Bee Words
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This list of 100 carefully selected 4th grade spelling bee words can be used for your next classroom competition. These words are the foundation for a great spelling game. Just print the words and start the bee! This list can also be used to prepare your students for larger spelling competitions.
More than half of the words come from my list of carefully researched 300 fourth grade spelling words. The remaining words come from outside sources, or are from more challenging lists. I've arranged words from easiest to most difficult.
Printable list of 4th grade spelling bee words
1. ladder
2. alarm
3. candle
4. harsh
5. jacket
6. enough
7. pilot
8. movie
9. laziest
10. needle
11. carrying
12. fasten
13. hungry
14. against
15. bridge
16. foggy
17. cloth
18. boast
19. jogging
20. calf
21. weather
22. medal
23. wander
24. plastic
25. whistle
26. knob
27. bandage
28. dairy
29. downstairs
30. barely
31. activities
32. famous
33. chief
34. sauce
35. choose
36. voices
37. answer
38. cactus
39. mango
40. drawer
41. people
42. adventure
43. easily
44. bought
45. village
46. holidays
47. ocean
48. studying
49. nickel
50. question
51. lovable
52. hospital
53. harbor
54. beauty
55. thirsty
56. heaviest
57. freeze
58. remember
59. turkey
60. breath
61. building
62. groceries
63. cellar
64. through
65. written
66. countries
67. skeleton
68. allowance
69. friendship
70. alphabet
71. cough
72. overheard
73. ceiling
74. tomorrow
75. reindeer
76. delightfully
77. eighty
78. giraffe
79. decorator
80. electric
81. raccoon
82. squirrel
83. relaxation
84. believable
85. interested
86. genius
87. uncertain
88. counselor
89. transportation
90. binoculars
91. preposterous
92. disguise
93. acquainted
94. imagination
95. pyramid
96. algae
97. xylophone
98. zigzagged
99. amphibian
100. hippopotamus
You may wish to adjust our list for your specific group of students. Feel free to use additional easier words, or insert some more difficult ones.
Tips for Studying Spelling Words
1. Encourage students to start a spelling notebook in which they can write their most challenging words. Remind them to add to their notebook each week, from their reading, their spelling quizzes, their other subject areas, or anywhere they encounter new and challenging words!
2. Remind your kids to review all the words in those important notebooks, both in class and at home. Just a few minutes a day can bring great improvement!
3. Review these ways to practice spelling words.
During the Spelling Bee
- Be sure to use spelling bee words in sentences when quizzing students. This is especially important with homonyms. For instance, you're, should be clarified so it won't be confused with your: You're the first person to arrive at the party.
- Be sure to have students repeat the spelling words to you clearly before they begin to spell. Then you can be sure they know what word they are to spell.
Practice 4th Grade Spelling Here
Fourth grade spelling words - Our list of 300 words most fourth graders should know or learn this year. Learn to spell these words for reading, writing and spelling success, all through fourth grade and beyond!
NEW! Fourth Grade Find-A-Word Puzzles: Words from our 4th grade spelling word list are hidden in this fun "4" shape for students' FUN and LEARNING! This word search puzzle features words with silent letters. It's printable for your convenience. Don't miss the special twist!
4th Grade Vocabulary Words - 200 words to help teach your students math, science, social studies and more! You'll find ten words in each of ten categories to interest your kids/students, plus 100 more! From earthworms to equations, this list is packed with fascinating words to help expand your child's vocabulary!
4th Grade Lesson Plans - 25 spelling dictation sentences and full instructions. Use a few of these each week to provide students with extra practice in writing, spelling and using spelling words in context.
Mystery In the Attic Spelling Worksheets: Kids read a humorous story about a mysterious attic as they choose correctly/incorrectly spelled words. For grades 3 - 6.
Shoe Shenanigans - Great practice in identifying and correcting misspelled 5th grade spelling words in this story about shopping for shoes. For grades 4-6.
Elementary worksheets - Swap Sheets™ #1 and #2 - These flexible spelling pages are a brilliant way for students to practice writing their spelling words over and over -- without your instruction! For grades 3- 5.
More 4th Grade Spelling Bee Words & Helps
Need more words with sentences, rules, award certificates, and lots of organizational tips? Please consider purchasing our exclusive Spelling Bee Toolbox, for grades 3-5 and grades 6-8. Each one contains 600 grade-appropriate bee words, used in sentences, and all the resources you need for a successful spelling bee! Learn more.
Or use my Monumental Spelling Bee Word Lists, if you're holding a competition in which you require definitions, parts of speech, sentences, and languages of origin. In each eBook, you'll find 400 all-new words!
Reward your spelling bee winners or your hard-working spellers anytime with our own Spelling Words Well mugs and t-shirts!
Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.
Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.
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