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Health
5 SENSES
Hearing | Sight | Smell | Taste | Touch
BODY PARTS
General | Skeletal Structure
BODY SYSTEMS
Circulatory System | Digestive System | Endocrine
System |
Female Reproductive System | Lymph System |
Male Reproductive System | Nervous System | Respiratory
System |
Urinary System
FOOD
Apples | Breakfast | Desserts | Dinner | Food |
Fruit | Healthy |
Lunch | Supermarket | Unhealthy | Vegetables
HEALTH
HEALTHY FOOD
NUTRITION
PERSONAL CARE
Daily Living | Drug Abuse | Emotions | Fire Prevention
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Manners | Nutrition | Personal Hygiene | Safety |
Teeth
UNHEALTHY FOOD
UNHEALTHY
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Language
Arts
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
ALTERNATIVES TO OVERUSED WORDS
A Lot - A Little | Can't | Feels Like | Good |
Happy | Looks Like |
Loud - Quiet | Love | Mad | Move | Nice | Pretty |
Sad | Say-Said |
Scared | Small - Large | Smell - Taste Like | Sometimes
| Upset
BLOOM'S TAXONOMY
Analysis | Application | Comprehension | Evaluation | Knowledge | Synthesis
COLORFUL WORDS
COMPOUND WORD TOPICS
Animals | Body | Business | Clothing | Communications
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Descriptive Words | Farm | Foods | Home | Music |
Nature |
Objects | Occupation | People | Places | School |
Sports | Time |
Tools | Transportation
COMPOUND WORDS
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L |
M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z
CONFUSED WORDS
CONJUNCTIONS
CONTRACTIONS
FREQUENTLY USED WORDS
10 Most Frequent Sight Words | 25 Most Frequent Sight Words |
Most Frequently Used Words
GREEK AND LATIN WORDS
GREEK ROOTS
HOMONYMS
HOMOPHONES
INTERJECTIONS
IRREGULAR PLURALS
IRREGULAR VERBS
KEY SOUNDS
A Like Also | AGE like Image | AI like Bait | AIL like Bail | AIR like Chair |
ALE like Sale | AN like Bank | ANG like Bang | AR like Ark | AR like Arrow |
AR like Blizzard | AR like Swarm | ARE like Care | AU like Applause |
AW like Claw | AY like Clay | E like Bucket | EA like Break | EA like Head |
EA like Peace | EAR like Bear | EAR like Clear | EAR like Earn |
EAR like Heart | EE like Feed | EER like Cheer | EI like Eight |
EI like Seize | ER like Berry | ER like Cereal | ET like Ballet |
EW like Chew | EY like Honey | EY like Prey | I like Deli | IE like Belief |
IE like Pie | IN like Blink | IN like Sing | IR like Bird | IRE like Fire |
O like Come | O like Move | OA like Board | OA like Boat | OE like Shoe |
OE like Toe | OI like Boil | ONG like Long | OO like Balloon |
OO like Blood | OO like Boot | OO like Cook | OOR like Floor |
OR like Armor | ORE like Core | OU like Cloud | OU like Cough |
OU like Double | OU like Dough | OU like Soup | OUR like Four |
OUR like Journal | OW like Allow | OW like Blow | OW like Cow |
OY like Toy | U like Accuse | U like Bush | UE like Blue | UI like Build |
UI like Fruit | UNG like Sung | UR like Burn | UR like Secure |
URE like Nature | URE like Pure | Y like Baby | Y like Fry | Y like Myth
LATIN ROOTS
LEVELED LISTS
Grade 5 - 6 + Review | Grade One | Grades 2 - 3
Grades 3 - 4 + Review | Grades 4 - 5 + Review | Kindergarten
LONG VOWEL SOUNDS
A like Bake | E like Bee | I like Ice | O like Bone | U as in Cute
METAPHORS - SIMILES - SYNONYMS
Able | Act | Alike | Almost | Amazing | Anger |
Angry | Answer |
Argue | Ashamed | Ask | Avoid | Awful | Awkward |
Bad |
Beautiful | Begin | Believe | Best | Big | Blame |
Bother | Brag |
Brave | Break | Bright | Build | Burn | Busy | Buy
| Calm | Car |
Careful | Careless | Carry | Catch | Celebrate | Change
| Chase |
Cheap | Cheat | Choose | Clean | Clear | Cold | Color
| Come |
Complain | Confused | Cost | Country | Crazy | Crooked
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Crowd | Cruel | Cry | Curious | Cut | Dangerous |
Dark | Dead |
Decide | Deep | Definite | Delicious | Describe |
Destroy |
Difference | Different | Difficult | Dirty | Disappointed
| Do | Dry |
Dull | Eager | Easy | Eat | Empty | End | Enjoy |
Enjoyable |
Especially | Excited | Explain | Fair | Fall | False
| Family |
Famous | Fast | Fat | Fear | Few | Find | First |
Fix | Fly |
Friend | Full | Fun | Funny | Game | Get | Go | Good
| Great |
Gross | Groups Of Animals | Groups Of People | Grow
| Happy |
Hard | Hate | Have | Help | Hide | High | Hire | Hurry
| Hurt |
Idea | Important | Interesting | Keep | Kill | Last
| Late | Laugh |
Lazy | Let | Light | Little | Lonely | Look | Lots
| Loud | Love |
Make | Mark | Middle | Mischievous | Money | Moody
| Move |
Neat | Never | New | Nice | Night | Noise | Often
| Old | Painful |
Part | People | Picture | Place | Plan | Playful |
Poor | Popular |
Predicament | Pretty | Put | Quiet | Ready | Rich
| Right | Rough |
Rub | Rule | Run | Sad | Safe | Said | Save | Saw
| Say | Scared |
Seat | Shiny | Shout | Show | Shy | Sleep | Slow |
Smart | Smooth |
Soft | Stay | Steal | Stop | Storm | Story | Strange
| Street |
Strong | Suddenly | Take | Talk | Tall | Teacher |
Tell | Thin |
Think | Tight | Time | Tired | Top | Touch | Trouble
| True | Try |
Ugly | Under | Understand | Unhappy | Use | Very |
Walk |
Want | Warm | Weak | Well | Went | Wet | Whisper |
Wide | Won |
Work | Worried | Write | Wrong | Young
MOST COMMON SPELLING ERRORS
Beginner-Intermediate | Intermediate - Advanced
NON-RHYMING WORDS
ONOMATOPOEIAS
Animal Sounds | Breaking-Falling Sounds | Machine
Sounds |
Other Sounds | People Sounds | Weather Sounds
OXYMORONS
PHONETICALLY IRREGULAR WORDS
PHONICS
PREPOSITIONS
PRONOUNS
R CONTROLLED WORDS
Ar | Er | Ir | Or | Ur
SHORT VOWEL SOUNDS
A like Apple | E like Egg | I like Igloo | O like Octopus | U like Bug
SIGNAL WORDS
Cause - Effect | Change | Compare - Contrast |
Conclusion |
Continual | Sequence | Spatial | Time
TEST & ESSAY WORDS
VERBS
WORD PAIRS
WORD PARTS
Consonant Sounds | Sounds & Syllables
WRITERS & AUTHORS
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Mathematics
ALGEBRAIC OPERATION
CLOCK
COUNTING
FRACTIONS
GENERAL
GEOMETRY
GRAPHS
MEASURE
MEASUREMENT
MONEY
NUMBER SENSE
OPERATIONS
ORDINAL NUMBERS
PATTERNS
PLACE VALUE
PROBABILITY
SHAPES
STATISTICS
TIME
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Miscellaneous
ANIMALS
Alligator | Animal Associations | Bats | Birds
| Circus | Desert |
Dinosaurs | Endangered | Farm | Fish | Fishing | General
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Grassland | Hunting | Jungle | Mammals | Marine |
Reptiles |
Rodeo | Safari | Snake | Spiders | Turtle | Underground
| Zoo
CALENDAR
Calendar Days | Calendar Sayings | Days Of The
Week |
February| Holidays | Months
HOME
Attic | Bathroom | Bedroom | Clothing | Fabrics
| Furniture |
Garage | Home | Kitchen | Living Room | Misc. | Office
| Tools |
Toys | Utensils
PEOPLE
Family | Occupations | People
PLACES
Airport | Alaska | Bank | Beach | Beauty Parlor
| Castle |
Community | Dentist's Office | Doctor's Office | Fairgrounds
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Gas Station | Hospital | In The City | In The Country
| Ocean |
Places - General | Police Station | Post Office |
Restaurant |
Town
RECREATION
Baseball | Basketball | Bicycling | Boating | Camping
| Football |
Picnic | Recreation
| Recreation Equipment | Sports | Track And Field
SCHOOL
Back To School | Calendar Days | Classroom | Days
Of The Week |
Health | Holidays | Library | Mathematics | Months
| Music |
School | Science | Social Studies | Technology
SEASONS
Fall | Spring | Summer | Winter
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Science
AMPHIBIANS
Frogs | General | Salamanders | Toads
CELLS
CLASSIFICATION
EARTH AND SPACE
EARTH SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
ELECTRICITY
ENERGY
FLOWERS
FOREST
GENERAL
GEOLOGY
INSECTS
LAB EQUIPMENT
LIFE SCIENCE
MAGNETISM
MAMMALS
MATTER
MINERALS AND ELEMENTS
MOTION
NATURE
OCEAN
Marine Animals | Ocean
PARTS OF A FLOWER
PARTS OF A MICROSCOPE
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
PLANETS
PLANTS AND TREES
RAIN FOREST
RECYCLING
ROCKETS
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
SCIENTIFIC THINKING
SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS
SEEDS AND PLANTS
SOUND
SPACE
TECHNOLOGY
UNIVERSE
WEATHER
Clouds | Hurricane | Rainbow | Thunderstorm | Tornado
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Social
Studies
13 COLONIES
AMERICAN WARS
AMERICAN WOMEN
ANCIENT GREEK GODS & GODDESSES
CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION
CONTINENTS
COUNTRIES
GENERAL
GEOGRAPHY
HISTORICAL PEOPLE
Black American Leaders | Classical Civilization Times
| European Explorers |
Exploring The U.S. | Influential People | Medieval Times
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Modern World Leaders | Native American Leaders | Presidents
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Renaissance Times | Scientists & Inventors | U.S. Military
Leaders |
U.S. Political Leaders | World Explorers | Writers &
Authors
HUMAN HISTORY
MYTHICAL CREATURES
NATIONS
Africa | Asia | Europe | Middle East | Oceania
| The Americas
NATIONS CAPITALS
Africa | Asia | Europe | Middle East | Oceania
| The Americas
ON THE JOB
Airport | Bank | Barber Shop | Business | Dentist's
Office |
Doctor's Office | Fireman | Gas Station | Goals |
Hospital |
Occupations | Police Station | Post Office | Restaurant
| Stock Market
PRESIDENTIAL
STATE CAPITALS
STATES
STOCK MARKET
TRAVEL
Airplane | Airport | Bicycle | Bus | In The City
| In The Country |
Transportation | Travel
UNITED STATES
U.S. LAKES
U.S. MOUNTAIN RANGES
U.S. RIVERS
U.S. TRIBES
Far North | Inter-Mountain | Northeast | Northwest
| Plains |
Southeast | Southwest
WORLD BODIES OF WATER
WORLD CITIES
WORLD RIVERS
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