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 |
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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!
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