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Fourth Grade Spelling Words

Here's our mammoth list of 300 fourth grade spelling words gleaned from a variety of sources, including textbooks and leading online resources.

Remember that fourth graders are ready to work on building lots of compound words, adding prefixes and suffixes and nailing down tricky sets of homophones. Be sure to give them lots of practice in all of these areas!

List of Fourth Grade Spelling Words

Printable version of our Fourth Grade Spelling Words

against	agree	airport	alarm	alive
all right	alley	alphabet	although	always
angriest	angry	animal	answer	asleep
attack	aunt	banana	battle	beautiful
beauty	become	beggar	believe	belong
between	blanket	blood	bottle	bought
bounce	breath	bridge	broke	broken
brought	bubble	building	built	busy
button	buying	calf	camera	cardboard
caring	carrying	catch	center	certain
chance	charge	cheer	chicken	chief
choice	choose	chore	chose	circle
cities	clothing	coast	coin	comb
common	copy	corner	cottage	cotton
couch	cough	couldn't	couple	cousin
cover	crayon	crime	crooked	crow
crowd	crumb	curl	dairy	damage
danger	dawn	deaf	dear	death
decide	degree	deliver	didn't	dirty
disappear	dislike	divide	double	downstairs
drain	drawer	earlier	earn	earth
easier	eighty	either	electric	engine
enough	evening	except	faint	false
famous	fear	feather	felt	fever
few	fifth	fifty	final	follow
forever	forgive	forty	fourth	fright
fruit	gain	garden	gasoline	gather
gentle	giant	glance	gold	grandfather
grandmother	groceries	grown	guard	handsome
happiest	he'll	he's	health	heard
hiking	holiday	honey	honor	hospital
hour	however	howl	hundred	hungry
hurry	husband	important	interest	invite
jacket	jaw	judge	juice	kindness
kitchen	kneel	knight	libraries	library
listen	lonely	loyal	machine	mailbox
meant	medal	middle	mirror	mistake
moment	monkey	movement	neighbor	neither
nickel	ninety	ninth	no one	nobody
o'clock	obeyed	odd	office	often
paper	parent	paste	path	peaceful
pencil	perfect	picture	planet	playground
pleasing	police	powerful	proper	public
question	quiet	quilt	quit	quite
railroad	reach	ready	reason	remember
return	ridge	roast	roof	rough
round	ruler	safe	sauce	scrap
search	season	self	seventh	seventy
sharp	she'll	she's	shout	sidewalk
sigh	sign	simple	since	sink
sixth	sixty	sleeve	smooth	sneeze
soften	spare	special	squirrel	steal
steel	strange	studied	studying	style
suppose	tennis	thirty	thumb	tool
towel	tube	tuna	twenty	twice
uncle	understand	useful	useless	village
visit	wait	weather	weight	whenever
whether	wife	wonder	wood	world
worried	wrist	worse	wouldn't	written
yourself	zebra	zero	zipper	zoo

Fourth Grade Writing Prompts

I've written two sets of engaging writing prompts, aligned with our 4th grade spelling word list. Use these stimulating prompts anytime throughout the year for fun spelling and writing practice!

Set #1 Why is you dad carrying all your books at school? Who's the famous bus driver? What's so scary about the grocery bag? Your fourth graders can let their imaginations run wild as they respond to these plus 9 more prompts.

Set #2 Students will explain why there's a camel at the window, why their little brother keeps disappearing, and more. Fun, stimulating fourth grade writing prompts!

More Fourth Grade Spelling Resources

4th Grade Spelling Bee Words - Prepare your child for a spelling bee competition with this word list. Filled with 75 words that are MORE CHALLENGING than the list above, you're sure to get your class ready for the competition when you rehearse with words like these!

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 another 100 words of all sorts! From earthworms to equations, this list is packed with fascinating words to help expand your child's vocabulary!

Fourth Grade Worksheets - It Pays to Spell and Spelling Profits. Two fun, flexible pages that combine math and spelling skills. Your kids will love these unique reproducibles!

Fourth graders are ready to work independently, and will probably enjoy our Mystery in the Attic spelling worksheet.

Don't miss our AnyWord spelling practice series which you're going to love! Students can insert almost any set of spelling words into the pages to complete puzzles, writing prompts and even partner games!

Free Spelling Worksheets - Can You Spell Well?: If students correctly identify the misspelled words, they'll shade the page to reveal in interesting word.

Don't miss my brand-new crosswords! I've written a collection of easy crosswords, and some more difficult ones, too.

Free Brain Teasers - Take a look at our extensive collection of spelling brain teasers. Build critical thinking skills while providing spelling practice. We have teasers at two levels.

Spelling Homework - 40 ideas to practice fourth grade spelling words, or words for any grade!

More Spelling Fun for Kids - New games to play on a Scrabble game board. Mumbo-jumbo, anyone?

Spelling Quizzes from the Evening News - 4 fun spelling exercises. Can your students find and correct all the mistakes in these news reports?

Spelling Bee Games - Try one of our new Silent Spelling Bee variations. A fun--and quiet--twist on a classic game!

Another Spelling Bee Game - Students step up to victory as they help their team advance in this fun new game. Use the fourth grade spelling words on this page when your students play this fun game!

See our entire collections of Spelling Word Games and Spelling Worksheets!

FAQs

Q: What are some good fourth grade spelling words?

A: Here a few from our list of 300 4th grade spelling words: against, all right, although, angriest, beautiful, beggar, believe, breath, building, camera, cardboard, carrying, certain, chief, cousin, decide, disappear, easier, eighty, famous, fourth, gentle, groceries, honor, hospital, important, judge, kitchen, knight, lonely, loyal, machine, movement, neighbor, neither, o'clock, ninety, ninth, no one, office, peaceful, question, reason, remember, rough, sauce, squirrel, studying, tennis, useful, visit, weather, weight, worried, yourself, zero.

Q: How can fourth graders best practice new spelling words?

A: It's always best to PRESENT new spelling words in context. So be sure to read meaningful sentences, paragraphs, stories and articles featuring new spelling words. Likewise, ask students to USE words in context. Offer interesting writing prompts and reward students who write more than just a mundane sentence for each new word. Of course, some repetition may be needed to learn the actual spellings of words. But correct meaning should always accompany correct spelling.

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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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