Writing Topics

New Experiences
Learning to ride a bike
Flying
Making friends
Moving house

Favourite Things
Being in a sports team
Eating out
Favourite games
Foods I like
Friends
Hobbies
Holidays
My cubby
My family
My favourite toy
My pet
Parties
Staying overnight

Games and pastimes
Board games
Building a go-kart
Dressing Up
Swimming
The cooking experiment

Special Days
Christmas Day
First day of school
School holidays
Dress up day

People in my life
Aunts
Siblings
Best friends
Favourite singers
Grandparents
People I like

Special Places
My Bedroom
My trip overseas
My Favourite country
Staying at a motel/hotel
The most unusual place I've ever been
The museum
My treehouse

Good Times
After school
Going fishing
Going on a plane
Horse riding
In my spare time
My biggest success so far

Spelling Yr 4 2010

Unit 1

spade, blade, trade, lane, mane, cane, crane, ape, cape, tape, shape, scape, grape, escape, daze, blaze, gaze, maze, graze, crate, plate, skate, state, grate, slave, grave, shave, behave

Challenge Words:

barricade, decade, lemonade, debate, insane, humane, hurricane, elevate, inflation, vibrate, operate, amazed

Unit 2

dare, care, hare, mare, fare, ware, pare, rare, bare, spare, blare, scare, stare, glare, share, square, aware, beware

Challenge Words:

compare, declare, prepare, nightmare, welfare

Unit 3

time, mime, lime, crime, slime, grime, chime, prime, overtime, pantomime

Challenge Words:

sublime, limelight

Unit 4

role, dole, home, dome, zone, alone, cone, tone, cope, lope, mope, scope

Challenge Words:

rissole, gnome, chrome, aerodrome, telephone, microphone, microscope, stethoscope, telescope, periscope, kaleidoscope

Unit 5

sheep, green, speed, creek, creep, sleep, greet, bleed, sweet, breed, knee, queen, fleet, steep, agree, greed, sweep, street, teeth, speech, screech

Challenge Words:

agreed, decree, asleep, esteem, tweed, freedom, screen

Unit 6

stout, cloud, blouse, drought, trout, proud, trousers, plough, spout, shroud, thousand, scout, shout, flour, crouch, sprout

Challenge Words:

pronoun, scoundrel, flounder, pronounce


Unit 7

bow, crow, show, tow, blow, know, row, glow, stow, sow, flow, throw, mow, slow, bowl, low, grow, below, own, snow

Challenge Words:

tomorrow

Unit 8

roast, toast, coast, boast, float, throat, coach, grown, croak, cloak, cocoa, approach

Challenge Words:

gloat, loathe, shoal, encroach, cockroach

Unit 9

air, fair, hair, pair, lair, chair, stairs, fairy, repair, upstairs

Challenge Words

affair, flair, prairie

Unit 10

real, deal, seal, steal, meal, heal, squeal, beam, seam, cream, steam, peak, leak, bleak, freak, streak, neat, beat, heat, feat, bleat, treat, lean, lead, leaf, leap, peach, bleach, least, yeast, leash

Challenge Words:

conceal, appeal, league, reveal, ideal

Unit 11

head, dead, lead, read, tread, bread, ahead, spread, thread, ready, stead, already, instead, homestead, meadow

Challenge Words:

measure, pleasure, treasure, steadfast, breadth, dreadful

Unit 12

boil, soil, toil, oil, foil, coil, spoil, toilet, join, coin, point, choice, voice, rejoice, noise, poison, moist, hoist, avoid

Challenge Words:

appoint, quoit, void, recoil, poise, joist, ointment, invoice

Unit 13

tie, die, lie, pie, magpie, fried, flies, pied, science, society

Challenge Words:

anxiety, piety, piebald

Unit 14

dew, blew, grew, nephew, few, brew, knew, jewel, new, chew, stew, ewe, crew, screw, drew, threw, flew

Challenge Words:

pew, shrewd, renew, skewer, mildew, jewelry, newspaper

Unit 15