Grade 7 of the Practical Spelling series. 36 weekly lessons designed to help students gain practice in both spelling and handwriting, with minimal teacher involvement.

• To the Teacher...

Contents

• 1. Spelling by Syllables
• 2. Doubling Final Consonants
• 3. "ei" and "ie"
• 4. Spelling the "k" Sound
• 5. Silent Consonants
• 6. Review

• 7. Sounds of "c" and "g"
• 8. Consonant Digraphs
• 9. "th" and "th"
• 10. Prefixes
• 11. Words Ending in "ate"
• 12. Review

• 13. Compounds
• 14. Plurals
• 15. Homonyms
• 16. Verbs
• 17. Homographs
• 18. Review

• 19. Endings of -er, -ar, and -or
• 20. Suffix Practice
• 21. Adding -ion
• 22. Adding -ive and -ative
• 23. The Suffix -ing
• 24. Review

• 25. Nouns with -ity, -ty, or -ist
• 26. Nouns with -ment, -ation, or -ness
• 27. Words with -able, -ible, -ous and "us"
• 28. The Suffix -al
• 29. Words with -able, -ible, -ous, and "us"
• 30. Review

• 31. Words of Grammar
• 32. Words of Arithmetic
• 33. Some States and Provinces
• 34. Birds and Animals
• 35. Fruits & Vegetables
• 36. Review

• Spelling Tests

Word Lists:

• 1. canker; ballot; splendid; support; neglect; commerce; pardon; comment; inspire; enclose; employ; envy; humid; veto; odor; deny; regret; redeem; response; prevent
• 2. permitted; committed; submitting; preferred; referring; occurrence; offered; equipped; limited; merited; benefiting; profited; gossiping; rebelling; beginning; carolers; leveled; transferred; upsetting; expelled
• 3. beige; sufficient; achievement; ancient; unbelievable; briefly; cashier; chiefly; conceited; conscience; fiery; interview; mischievous; receiver; relieve; seize; siege; weird; wield; retrieve
• 4. panic; panicked; mimic; mimicked; frolic; frolicking; chasm; character; conquer; securing; kilometer; scholars; handkerchief; exception; secretive; extend; quantity; keepsake; actions; courteous
• 5. subtle; Psalms; doubtful; reign; plight; ghastly; vehement; jostle; chasten; alms; calk; wrist; epistle; rhythm; aghast; calmness; glisten; balmy; bustling; wrath
• 6. [review]

• 7. source; logic; frequency; auger; digit; certify; conceal; frugal; congregate; precise; sacrifice; legal; circumstances; agency; oxygen; pilgrimage; gadget; tragic; stingy; accidentally
• 8. worship; ashamed; accomplish; established; cheap; chocolate; bachelor; purchase; athlete; cathedral; whereabouts; whether; overwhelm; whittle; tickled; mocking; physician; pamphlet; biography; orphan
• 9. soothe; soothingly; theory; loath; loathe; threat; teeth; teethe; teething; bathed; bathing; they'd; therefore; thoroughly; thousandth; motherly; seethe; seething; breathes; fathers-in-law
• 10. impatient; imprudent; invisible; involuntary; disappear; unpredictable; unable; antiseptic; illegal; tricycle; misunderstood; bifocals; postscript; irregular; irresponsible; reunite; recheck; re-cover; reform; disadvantage
• 11. instigate; congratulate; aggravate; eliminate; illuminate; suffocate; exaggerate; communicate; cultivate; educate; investigate; violate; operate; hesitate; estimate; deliberate; duplicate; desperate; delicate; graduate
• 12. [review]

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