Grade 4 Spelling Words

Spelling can be fun! These Grade 4 spelling words aim to do just that with a variety of weekly themes.

Spelling Lists

I’m not a fan of spelling lists. At least for us trying to learn to spell with a list has been extremely boring.

The words are usually random words without any context associated with them – just words on a page, instead of words rich with meaning.

I found my daughter would “get through” learning the words she was supposed to learn but had trouble retaining much in the following weeks.

This only makes sense as with learning anything, to absorb things well, it helps to have as many connections as we can to real life. So with that goal, I decided to create spelling lists with weekly themes.

Spelling Lists With Weekly Themes

Since each week has a different theme, no spelling week will feel the same, which helps alleviate boredom.

Also, the words will have more meaning behind them as they will be able to work with them in their context.

For example, the theme of week 14 is “Baking”. You might decide to do some baking with your kids, allowing them to not only read a recipe but perhaps write down some of their favourite recipes.

They will be reading, and using and writing the words, and probably saying them out loud as they read an instruction to you. And so, learning the spellings of these words will naturally be happening.

There are 36 weekly spelling themes for these grade 4 spelling words. They are:

1. Back to School
2. Silent Consonants
3. Days of the Week / Time
4. Mixed Bag of Words
5. Mail / Letters
6. Time – Duration
7. Friendship
8. Numbers
9. Art
10. Geography
11. Emotions & Feelings
12. Sports
13. Family
14. Baking
15. Disney Movies
16. Hair & Beauty
17. Books
18. Math
19. Africa
20. Human Body
21. Pizza
22. Words
23. Fairy Tales
24. Movies
25. Fractions
26. Babies
27. Homophones
28. Eating Out
29. Fashion
30. Bank Account & Money
31. Tools
32. Medical
33. Farm
34. Insects & Flowers
35. Ocean
36. Summer

About these Grade 4 Spelling Words

• 36 weeks of words, 14 words per week
• Of the 504 words, 183 of them are Fry words. 18 of the words are Dolch words.
• By the end of fourth grade, your child will have learned the spellings of 770 Fry words + 886 additional words. 304 of the words learned will have been Dolch words.
• secular spelling

You can download the themed lists of grade 4 spelling words below.

Are you looking for a different grade?

• 1st grade themed spelling words
• 2nd grade themed spelling words
• 3rd grade themed spelling words
• 5th grade themed spelling words
• 6th grade themed spelling words

Curriculum that keeps learning interesting and varied that goes along with these Grade 4 spelling words is in the process of being created. It will be up as soon as completed.