All About Spelling: Year 1 Words

We have loved All About Spelling for this school year. So far, Kylie got 100% batting average in her weekly spelling words! Congratulations to our almost Year 2 baby girl!


The goal now is for these words to stick to her mind and with a powerful tool to retain these words, we are sure to be on the right track.

We are listing here the words just to make sure we do not forget.

Set 1  - words with blends
gran
grin
grip
grill
pram
press
tram
trap
trip
trick
truck

Set 2 - words with blends
step
stop
still
sting
just
must
crust
frost
spin
spot
spun
crisp

Set 3 - the sound of soft /a/
came
game
same
bake
cake
take
cave
gave
save
wave
shave

Set 4 - the sound of soft /i/
bike
like
bite
kite
dive
five
line
nine
pipe
wipe

Set 5 - the sound of soft /o/ and /u/
hope
rope
hole
pole
bone
cone
cube
tube
June
tune

Set 6 - words with -all
all
ball
call
fall
hall
tall
wall
small
stall

Set 7 words with -ing 
kicking
licking
picking
bumping
jumping
talking
walking
resting
testing

Set 8 - review of the sounds of soft vowels 
came
same
gave
like
nine
five
joke
hope
robe
tube
June
tune

Set 9 - the sound of blends /ch/, /th/
chat
chick
chin
chop
much
such
them
then
think
thank
cloth
moth

Set 10 -  the sound of soft /c/, /g/ and blends with /l/
face
race
place
space
age
cage
page
stage
blame
flame
flake
snake


Set 11 - the sound of soft /i/
die
lie
pie
tie
ice
dice
mice
nice
rice
price
slice
twice

Set 12 - the sound of soft /o/
stone
broke
chose
smoke
drove
throne
choke
close
those
stove

Set 13 - the sound of /oo/
book
cook
took
crook
shook
foot
soot
good
hood
wood
stood

Set 14 - the sound of /ow/ and /ou/
cow
now
owl
growl
down
clown
our
out
about
scout
shout
house
mouse

Set 15 - the sound of /ee/ and /ea/
bee
see
tree
need
seed
sea
tea
eat
meat
treat
team
steam

Set 16 - this is a tricky one and we intend to study more
cry
dry
sky
shy
mice
nice
slide
bride
fight
light
might
night

Set 17 - the sound of /oo/ and /ew/
fool
pool
moon
spoon
balloon
cube
tune
June
blew
flew
crew
screw
threw

Set 18 - the sound of soft /a/ and /ai/
care
fare
hare
rare
scare
share
stares
air
hair
fair
pair
chair
stairs

Set 19 - the sound of /or/ and /aw/
cork
horn
fort
short
horse
more
sore
saw
claw
draw
thaw
yawn
crawl

Set 20 - the sound of /ir/, /er/, /ur/ 
stir
bird
third
shirt
herd
herb
over
flower
nurse
burst
church
measure

Set 21 - together with these words, we studied the concept of "prefix" 
undo
untidy
untie
unhappy
unsure
untrue
dislike
disagree
unkind
disappear
distrust
disused

Set 22 - while studying these words, we also studied "adverbs" as most of these words are adverbs and the concept of "suffix" 
slowly
quickly
wisely
crossly
useful
helpful
careful
wonderful
helpfully
carefully
wonderfully

Set 23 - two /ea/ sounds
ear
gear
hear
near
tear
year
beard
spear
head
bread
spread
weather

These words are important as these are the foundation of spelling skills.

For more tips on spelling, we recommend All About Spelling( and All About Reading)  tool.

We will spend more time of spelling words during the summer and we'll post more of our activities hopefully.



Enjoy Spelling!