"The Hot and Cold Summer"

skill:  Words with short vowels

master

ahead

build

front

meant

bread

ready

busy

quit

mother

above

does

advantage

business

sweater

plastic

balance

limit

among

dozen

"Sees Behind Trees"

skill:  Words with Long a, e, and i

stayed

brain

thief

meat

flight

style

delighted

daily

breathe

meanwhile

believes

tonight

increased

explained

slightly

payment

brief

tray

byte

raise

Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family

skill:  Words with Long o and u

soul

smoke

move

clue

fruits

lose

chose

stole

prove

produce

juice

drove

Tuesday

rescue

continue

issue

ego

argue

cruise

toll

"Dear Mrs. Parks"

skill:  Vowels Before r

parts

history

warning

declare

despair

shirt

learning

backward

border

prepared

harsh

research

carnival

particular

squirrel

harmful

charms

disorder

favored

remark

"Elena"

skill:  Words with /s/, /z/, and /sh/

percent

absence

years

refused

ancient

pressure

machine

notice

scene

station

social

special

parachute

specialty

detention

constitution

advertisement

advise

cities

chalet

"We'll Never Forget You Roberto Clemente"

skill:  Endings /zher/ and /cher/

treasure

capture

feature

pleasure

measure

creature

picture

adventure

mixture

structure

pasture

culture

literature

furniture

temperature

legislature

immature

leisure

premature

signature

"Folktales from Asia"

skill:  Words Ending in -ed and -ing

charged

spied

moving

trying

practicing

injured

carrying

tasted

receiving

becoming

lying

dying

realized

provided

fried

created

tallied

carried

revising

wearing

"Iditarod Dream"

skill:  Unstressed Endings

American

frozen

button

chapter

tractor

golden

taken

harbor

father

color

ancestor

hidden

hamburger

theater

weather

beckon

cannon

comparison

elder

turban

"Woodsong"

skill:  Unstressed Ending

level

double

metal

evil

travel

couple

needle

battle

candle

article

equal

civil

capital

original

individual

material

angel

camel

illegal

stencil

"Island of the Blue Dolphins"

skill:  plurals

crises

knives

media

roofs

pianos

waves

wishes

armies

briefs

videos

heroes

data

bacteria

oxen

tomatoes

canoes

berries

loaves

lives

messages

"Everglades"

skill:  Words with "silent" letters

island

design

calm

column

sword

half

yolk

walked

talk

chalk

wrinkled

wrong

autumn

solemn

aisle

foreign

lightning

benign

glistened

resign

"Summer of Fire"

skill:  Compound Words

basketball

seventy-five

rock band

everybody

fireplace

anything

take-off

skateboard

homework

two-thirds

high school

railroad

motorcycle

vice president

strawberry

freeway

car pool

comic strip

fine arts

forty-two

"Oceans"

skill:  Troublesome Words and Phrases

anyway

any way

all right

every one

everyone

already

all ready

a lot

its

it's

your

you're

who's

whose

there's

theirs

anyone

any one

altogether

all together

"Seeing Earth from Space"

skill:  words with -ant and -ent

absent

servant

present

instant

accident

assistant

current

moment

resident

ignorant

pleasant

distant

innocent

intelligent

restaurant

patient

government

statement

migrant

participant

BACK

"The Case of the Flying-Saucer People"

skill:  Suffixes -tion and -ness

translation

laziness

population

invention

generation

examination

situation

operation

sickness

kindness

closeness

forgiveness

pollution

imagination

education

transportation

federation

subtraction

smallness

lateness

"Hattie's Birthday Box"

skill:  Suffixes -able and -less

capable

careless

desirable

admirable

restless

available

debatable

tasteless

helpless

senseless

priceless

useless

reliable

undeniable

excitable

believable

bottomless

comfortable

dampness

understandable

"William Shakespeare and the Globe"

skill:  Suffixes -eer, -ist, -ian, -or, and -er

engineer

dentist

librarian

director

customer

pioneer

counselor

tourist

scientist

visitor

investigator

senator

astronomer

character

refrigerator

guardian

commander

physician

politician

leader

"The World of William Joyce Scrapbook"

skill:  Prefixes non-, in-, and un-

nontoxic

income

unknown

unusual

involved

unlike

inspector

unless

indeed

nonprofit

invisible

nonsense

incredible

uncomfortable

inconsistent

unfortunately

nonfiction

nonviolent

uncover

informal

"Satchmo's Blues"

skill:  Prefixes re- and inter-

remove

interview

repeat

interrupt

respect

interfere

represent

relocate

international

review

interpret

interstate

remarkable

intermediate

intersection

recommend

interject

intervene

resource

remained

"Evelyn Cisneros:  Prima Ballerina"

skill:  Prefixes dis- and de-

discuss

deduct

dismissed

develop

disease

discount

disturb

details

demand

determined

depressed

defense

disappointing

discouraged

disadvantage

demonstrated

defeat

descent

disappear

disconnect

"Off and Running"

skill:  Prefixes pre- and pro-

prevent

program

predict

project

pretend

process

prefer

promise

previous

protect

property

propose

precede

proceed

pronunciation

professional

pretest

preview

proclaim

progress

"Little by Little"

skill:  VCCV Words

pretty

service

thunder

blanket

effort

fellow

subject

perhaps

attack

entire

chimney

tunnel

effect

suspended

challenge

pretzel

survive

pillow

hunger

college

"Dear Mr. Henshaw"

skill:  More Words with -ed or -ing

wondering

fastened

permitting

controlled

listening

regretted

suffered

admitted

referred

bothered

submitted

whispered

transferred

occurring

canceled

developing

scrubbing

upsetting

wondered

quarreled

"Frindle"

skill:  VCCCV Words

subtract

distract

contract

complex

distrust

extra

improve

instead

Congress

English

conflict

exchange

pumpkin

sandwich

Christmas

construction

luncheon

compliant

transform

although

"The Fun They Had"

skill:  VCV Words

slogan

radar

minutes

honest

second

virus

shadow

humor

salad

eleven

closet

model

volcano

private

balance

radio

basis

decent

fanatic

novel

"Across the Wide Dark Sea"

skill:  VV Words

quiet

trial

fuel

poem

diet

nucleus

cruel

Indian

fluid

violin

museum

dial

ruin

influence

triumph

violent

theater

liar

leotard

koala

"Name This American"

skill:  Contractions

he's

couldn't

she'll

doesn't

we'd

that's

hadn't

shouldn't

how's

weren't

there's

wouldn't

what's

where's

aren't

here's

they'll

we'll

you'd

he'd

"What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?"

skill:  Related Words

describe

description

nature

natural

televise

television

apply

application

compete

competition

divide

division

beauty

beautiful

collide

collision

multiply

multiplication

bounty

bountiful

"Lewis and Clark"

skill:  Words with Three Syllables

industry

buffalo

exciting

terrible

electric

dangerous

exercise

horizon

favorite

library

substitute

typical

dinosaur

curious

average

period

amazement

bicycle

conference

family

"Black Frontiers"

skill:  Words from Spanish

canyon

tornado

breeze

cafeteria

coyote

tomato

barbeque

mosquito

plaza

pueblo

chili

alligator

rodeo

patio

bonanza

avocado

mesa

burro

enchilada

burrito