9th Grade Worksheets

for Spelling and Vocabulary Practice

You can use 9th grade worksheets to give your students practice with spelling and vocabulary skills. There are so many ways to give students at this level great practice, and many of them are actually fun! 

You might want to begin by reviewing this long list of 9th grade spelling words. Use these as a basis for your own studies and review assignments. Then come back and play away with these fun, free reproducible pages!

9th Grade Worksheets

I'm a big fan of word play, word puzzles and brain teasers. They help build higher-level thinking skills. Plus they're a nice change from ordinary worksheets.

Here are just two examples.

A Hard Word Search Puzzle

What makes this so hard? Try to solve it and you'll find out! First, there's no word list. Instead, students must look through the word puzzle, think about words they already know, and do a bit of guessing. These important clues are supplied:

• There are 25 words to find.
• All the words are spelled with 7 letters.
• Each word begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

Print out this puzzle and let your students get started. But remember, I suggest that you try it first!

Mystery Word Scrambles

Word scrambles don't sound all that challenging right? Well...what if you didn't know what kind of words you were unscrambling? Are the words going to spell the names of foods, animals, places, inventions or...?

On this printable 9th grade worksheet, you'll see that each set of scrambled words contains 8 lines. One of the words describes the topic. The other seven words can be unscrambled to spell words related to that topic.

Again, please try this yourself before you share it with your students!

What's the beauty of worksheets like these?

You can easily make your own throughout the year to give frequent spelling and vocabulary practice! Better yet, you can ask students to make these types of puzzles for you. Even the task of creating the puzzle forces students to look carefully at the correct spellings of all the words used in the puzzles!

9th grade words and definitions: 100 ninth grade words, along with a prominent definition for each one. Free list and pdf. Use this powerful list for competition practice and/or classroom quizzes. It's a must-have study guide for serious students!

Don't Miss This Page!

Check out our page filled with 9th grade vocabulary ideas!  Students will become engaged as they help to create your weekly vocab lists. They'll compose sentences. You can easily evaluate student work through sentence checking and weekly quizzes. But students take turns selecting the vocabulary words. What could be better than that?

More Upper Grade Worksheets & Resources

Cryptogram Worksheet: Puzzle page for upper grades. Includes instructions so students, parents or teachers can make more cryptogram puzzles with any word list. 

Antonym Antics - Vocabulary worksheet featuring antonyms and spelling. It's a unique format for your upper level students.  Our free vocabulary worksheets include some excellent spelling practice, too. Instead of simply learning vocabulary words the old-fashioned, boring way, why not give your students some critical thinking, highly-engaging worksheets like this one?

"Ex" Marks the Spot - We have lots of free English worksheets, including this crossword that provides great spelling and vocabulary practice. 
Answers in this crossword begin with the letters EX.  If you solve this quickly, you should be EXceedingly happy. Others should EXTOL your talent and EXcellent abilities!

 So N "ICE" to Know You!:  This exercise provides great spelling and vocabulary practice for students in middle school and older. Each answer contains the letters ICE. Some of the words are super-easy. Others? Not so much!

Synonym Crossword: Can you solve this mammoth-sized challenge? For each clue you must select a synonym that fits into the diagram.

Pull-Apart Synonyms - Extremely challenging free word scramble game! Can you pull apart these letters, without rearranging them, to spell a pair of synonyms? Is this as easy as it sounds???

Word Lists

You may also find these word lists to be helpful. If you students can master the spellings of these words, they will be stronger writers.

• Frequently Misspelled Words 
• Difficult English Spelling Word Lists
• 9th Grade Spelling Words
• 8th Grade Spelling Words
• 10th Grade Spelling Words
• 11th Grade Spelling Words
• 12th Grade Spelling Words

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.

Visit my YouTube Channel for fun spelling practice videos!

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101 Word Play Puzzlers   Discover the FUN of letters & words as you solve each unique puzzle. Great vocabulary & spelling practice!