4th Grade High-Frequency Words
4th Grade High-Frequency Words organizes 24 spellings into 2 sets of 12 words each.
High-frequency describes how often a word is encountered or used, not that its spelling is irregular. Set 1 connects words such as understand, happened, and known to a familiar base and ending, while giving focused attention to less-transparent vowels in important, possible, general, and several. Set 2 builds from familiar words and a related base in written, then distinguishes sound-alike spellings such as whether, though, and whole. The two sets build cumulatively, with Set 2 continuing the base-and-ending strategy Set 1 establishes.
Where to begin: Working through both 2 sets in order keeps that base-and-ending strategy consistent across the full 24-word inventory.
- 4th Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 1 4th Grade Set 1 connects words to bases and endings where they help, while using syllables and written chunks to protect the spellings of straight, example, idea, quite, and other less transparent words. 12 words
- 4th Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 2 4th Grade Set 2 uses compounds, a base-and-ending relationship, doubled consonants, and stable vowel chunks to secure whether, though, written, common, reason, course, and the rest of the set. 12 words