Mrs. Kanas’s 4^th Grade

Language Arts Resources

I have an account with SpellingCity.com and all of the spelling lists for this school year are posted on this site. This is a wonderful way to practice your spelling words! All you have to do is visit SpellingCity and find the button that says “Find A List”. Then type in my last name – Kanas. Here are some things you can do on SpellingCity:

ê Print the weekly spelling list

ê Take a practice test

ê Play games with your spelling words

Click on a story!

“The Gardener”	“Donovan’s Word Jar”	“My Name is Maria Isabel”	“Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man”
“On the Banks of Plum Creek”	“The Seven Children: A Fable About Unity”	“The Garden of Happiness”	“Nights of the Pufflings”
“Charlotte’s Web”	“How to Babysit an Orangutan”	“Sarah, Plain and Tall”	“Stealing Home”
“The Cricket in Times Square”	“Look to the North”	“Saguaro Cactus”	“Kids’ Invention Book”
“The Case of Pablo’s Nose”	“In the Days of King Adobe”	“Red Writing Hood”	“One Grain of Rice”
“Fire!”	“A Very Important Day”	“House, House”	“Blue Willow”
“In My Family”	“I Have Heard of a Land”	“Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox”	“Two Lands, One Heart”
	“Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back”	“The Down and Up Fall”

“The Gardener”
Vocabulary Words adore vacant anxious retire recognizing sprucing	Spelling Words played escape steak subway gray safely mistake greatest break after planting scratch address holiday natural paragraph garden bakery sincerely envelope

“Donavan’s Word Jar”
Vocabulary Words leisure disappointment perseverance uneasy compromise chortle	Spelling Words asleep empty queen deal needed spelling east feelings tea keeping beneath agree elevator coffee suggested method green seashells peacock cleaned

“My Name is Maria Isabel”
Vocabulary Words pageant restless tropical rehearsals attentively troublesome	Spelling Words mine tie wild type smile drive size blind visit thick die prize fifty picnic arrived decide until think kids trip

“Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man”
Vocabulary Words courageous immigrants salary tremendous appreciation valuable modest sportsmanship	Spelling Words those coach solid include crew plus operate broke upset tune June floating plume renew husband honor populated soccer swung lucky

“On the Banks of Plum Creek”
Vocabulary Words earnestly blizzard frantically stagger scoured bustled	Spelling Words hoop wounded shoot booth broom boost mood fooling afternoon spoon smooth tooth raccoon bloomed souvenir routine soon bedroom schools room

“The Seven Children: A Tale About Unity”
Vocabulary Words anticipation clearing unity thicket unfamiliar	Spelling Words carved garden harm farther barked alarm chart starved harder parked smartest charge guard argument hardware garbage farmer argued part large

“Garden of Happiness”
Vocabulary Words lavender haze inhaled mural skidded	Spelling Words pour orbit score source sports forward force order wore yourself support sore orange anymore ignore portrait morning store corner four

“Nights of the Pufflings”
Vocabulary Words uninhabited venture nestles instinctively stranded burrows	Spelling Words cared dairy unfair rarely stared dared glare airplanes barely farewell software staircase everywhere carefully square therefore stranded nestles burrow venture

“Charlotte’s Web”
Vocabulary Words narrator offstage acrobat encourage fragile exhausting conspiracy sustenance	Spelling Words curve learned curly pearl purse further turtle urgent burning search earth earned purpose surface overheard rehearse turns early Fern Wilbur

“How to Babysit an Orangutan”
Vocabulary Words facial smuggled jealous manageable coordination displeasure endangered	Spelling Words ground frown downtown bounced council about scout counter background amount bound shower mountain country thousand allowance powdered downpour mouth around

“Sarah Plain and Tall”
Vocabulary Words alarmed conch paddock windbreak rustle	Spelling Words boiled annoyed choices poison employer joining spoiled voices destroyed pointing avoided enjoying employee voyage appointed poisonous soiled advertisement goldenrod rustle

“Stealing Home”
Vocabulary Words impose irritably grudge glumly disposition tutor pastimes bicker	Spelling Words shelves sheep teeth elves mice calves spacecraft jeans feet women men geese salmon series scissors halves underwear clothes tutor gentlemen

“Cricket in Times Square”
Vocabulary Words wistfully excitable sympathetically acquaintance eavesdropping scrounging logical	Spelling Words team’s players’ bird’s wolf’s horse’s class’s group’s girls’ students’ trees’ parents’ owners’ cousins’ teachers’ aunts’ friends’ Nedick’s Loft’s Chester’s New Year’s

“Look to the North”
Vocabulary Words piteously ceases abundant bonding tundra surrender	Spelling Words Pres. Dr. Ave. Hwy. Rd. St. Fri. Sat. Sept. Dec. tsp. lb. Wed. Gov. Mt. Rte. Mon. Mr. mi. ft.

“Saguaro Cactus”
Vocabulary Words topple habitat decomposes spiny brush teeming	Spelling Words weight ceiling field reindeer freight eighteen neighbor receive weird chief believe piece either fierce relief windshield their ancient sleigh pierce

“Kid’s Invention Book”
Vocabulary Words modify device scholarship disabilities document circular prosthetic	Spelling Words tiny hockey heavy every money turkey early hungry already valley nobody monkey company country ability library automatic laundry computerized invention

“The Case of Pablo Nose”
Vocabulary Words alibi muttered strengthening retorted straightaway sculptor	Spelling Words unused dislike unclean unheard disagree disabled unkind unfriendly unable unhappy unsafe disobey uncertain disappear undecided dishonest discovered uncomfortable uninhabited unlikely

“In the Days of King Adobe”
Vocabulary Words fascinated roguish thrifty rascally generous	Spelling Words nonstop replaced inactive refill incorrect rethink nonfat reread retell return incomplete repay nonfiction nonsense indirect independent replay reoccur indigo tobacco

“Red Writing Hood”
Vocabulary Words triumphantly injustice discards circumstances repentant script desperately acceptable	Spelling Words families worried ugliest funnier happily easily heavier earlier tiniest supplied luckily relied activities countries enemies hurried goodies stories harder prettier

“One Grain of Rice”
Vocabulary Words decreed famine implored trickle plentifully	Spelling Words addition sadness lovable endless handful plentiful breathless happiness solution careful function stillness information celebration capable available subtraction wonderful awareness graduation

“Fire!”
Vocabulary Words dedication billowing flammable loyalty ventilate curfew brigade	Spelling Words doctor dollar power sugar corner collar danger ladder labor cellar other motor hunger calendar horror officer cheddar leather wander disaster

“A Very Important Day”
Vocabulary Words enrich petitioners certificate resounded apologized examiner obliged	Spelling Words table final handle personal animal usual jungle actual example bottle possible single several national hospital trouble finally bundles waffles formal

“House, House”
Vocabulary Words gymnasium attic patent installed local sweltering	Spelling Words woman even urban seven kitchen reason human season burden wagon oven dragon horizon orphan canyon eleven education children often written

“Blue Willow”
Vocabulary Words undoubtedly protruded heartily certainly loathe sulkily indifferently	Spelling Words stepped entered reaching allowing argued speaking reading unfolding finished closing hugged belonged divided determined rewarding occurred huddled squeezed captured decided

“In My Family”
Vocabulary Words barbeque accordion confetti mesquite chile culture	Spelling Words lamb often castle listen comb climbed fasten crumbs soften thumb doubt whistle honest rhyme answer column culture chile barbecue confetti

“I Have Heard of a Land”
Vocabulary Words harmony arbor fertile possibilities pioneer	Spelling Words hasn’t I’ve I’d we’ve wouldn’t you’d haven’t wasn’t they’ve you’ve she’d didn’t won’t shouldn’t couldn’t weren’t aren’t hadn’t don’t

“Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox”
Vocabulary Words softhearted gadgets bellowing tragedy fateful ration	Spelling Words some sum tale plains close blew piece clothes tail planes blue peace night knight peddle pedal would wood whole hole

“Two Land, One Heart”
Vocabulary Words interpreter overwhelm appetizing hysterically occasionally irrigation equivalent	Spelling Words object shelter distance pattern captive publish bamboo buffalo village forgotten practice members dinner suppose except problem shallow stubborn silver cotton

“Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back”
Vocabulary Words carnivorous dissolve victim accidentally chemicals fertilizer boggiest	Spelling Words major cedar spiders locate ruler motive raven pilot silent super paper native rivals solar bison legal yogurt decided because became

“The Down and Up Fall”
Vocabulary Words enthusiastically investigate décor apparently corridor transformed	Spelling Words difficult probably beginning direction discover excellent important imagine energy remember different another beautiful dangerous government interest tropical fantastic wonderful afternoon

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