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Our lists come from the Rigby Literacy By Design Series.

Week 1: Short Vowels

 

began

chicken

common

exotic

happen

magic

number

pencil

rabbit

travel

 

No Excuse Words

all

most

show

where

 

Challenge Words

guitar

jealous

leopard

question

 

+2 personal words

Week 2: Initial Consonants

 

building

calendar

family

monster

patio

poem

reason

subtract

valley

weather

 

No Excuse Words

after

called

very

words

 

Challenge Words

decimal

phase

science

wrist

 

+2 personal words

 

Week 3: Consonant Blends

brisk

clever

craft

dentist

grip

probably

restrict

spinach

stump

traffic

 

No Excuse Words

long

may

one

water

 

Challenge Words

applaud

drainage

plastic

splendid

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 4: Short Vowels

chapter

doormat

floppy

giggle

habit

market

matter

snuggle

thunder

women

 

No Excuse Words

find

only

use

way

 

Challenge Words

acrobat

cotton

penguin

threaten

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 5: Long Vowels

baseball

describe

evening

explode

female

mistake

parachute

suppose

sunshine

telephone

 

No Excuse Words

did

down

had

made

 

Challenge Words

believe

climate

freestyle

lightning

 

+2 personal words

 

Week 6: Nouns

artist

blister

colony

fossil

grocer

hospital

pudding

restaurant

shoulder

sibling

 

No Excuse Words

my

now

not

who

 

Challenge Words

cyclone

future

headache

thermometer

 

+2 personal words

 

Week 7: Proper Nouns

American

Canada

Challenger

Congress

Cuba

Everglades

Jupiter

Lewis and Clark

Mexico

Pacific Ocean

 

No Excuse Words

been

first

soon

than

 

Challenge Words

Antarctica

Thomas Edison

Frankenstein

Parliament

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 8: Reference Materials

against

alphabet

energy

glossary

Internet

neighbor

puzzle

reference

research

system

 

No Excuse Words

could

make

no

time

 

Challenge Words

dictionary

mystery

thesaurus

vocabulary

 

+2 Personal Words

 

 

Week 9: Synonyms and Antonyms

answer

delicious

ideal

noisy

perfect

puny

quiet

response

tasty

weak

 

No Excuse Words

him

like

see

two

 

Challenge Words

examine

familiar

inspect

strange

 

+2 personal words

 

Week 10: Multiple-Meaning Words

 

batter

cobbler

diamond

present

pupil

scour

shower

stable

swallow

temple

 

No Excuse Words

has

her

into

more

 

Challenge Words

atmosphere

buffet

column

neutral

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 11: Homonyms

cent

pore

pour

scent

sent

their

there

they’re

 

No Excuse Words

apple

but

flower

other

 

Challenge Words

cereal

patience

patients

serial

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 12: Verbs

aid

appear

argue

comfort

exercise

imagine

notice

practice

surround

 

No Excuse Words

city

many

she

then

 

Challenge Words

continue

galloping

receive

succeed

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 13: Science

aware

beauty

compass

cougar

counter

follow

orbit

repair

rough

skis

No Excuse Words

clown

how

them

up

Challenge Words

bulletin

promise

quantity

stomach

+2 Personal Words

Week 14: Inflected Endings

countries

donkeys

invited

losing

masses

millions

nerves

received

wolves

worrying

 

No Excuse Words

about

do

each

will

 

Challenge Words

committed

instead

oxen

potatoes

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 15: Adjectives

enormous

favorite

frantic

heroic

important

jolly

modern

purple

Spanish

twelve

 

No Excuse Words

bee

by

if

said

 

Challenge Words

endangered

energetic

genuine

hilarious

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 16: Prefix –un

unafraid

unbeaten

unbutton

uncertain

uncomfortable

uninteresting

unknown

unspoken

unused

unwelcome

 

No Excuse Words

an

can

we

when

 

Challenge Words

uncle

unconscious

unite

unreasonable

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 17: Prefixes   non-, in-, dis-

disagree

disapprove

discontinue

disgust

inactive

informal

indirect

nonfiction

nonsense

nonstop

 

No Excuse Words

know

were

where

would

 

Challenge Words

disengage

dissatisfied

injure

innocent

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 18: Prefixes     re-, pre-

 

precook

prehistoric

prepaid

preschool

preview

recover

refuel

relocate

restore

rewrite

 

No Excuse Words

bring

little

people

which

 

Challenge Words

precaution

president

reappear

reunite

 

+2 Personal Words

Week 19: Contractions

haven’t

I’ve

one’s

shouldn’t

should’ve

that’ll

they’ll

what’s

you’d

you’ve

 

No Excuse Words

face

from

I

or

 

Challenge Words

could’ve

mustn’t

there’d

who’d

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 20: Abbreviations

Ave.

Dr.

ft

gal

Jan.

Mr.

Mrs.

NY

qt

Wed.

 

No Excuse Words

at

be

feel

idea

 

Challenge Words

Bldg.

Blvd.

Corp.

Hwy.

 

+2 Personal Words

Week 21: Pronouns

anyone

her

its

me

myself

nobody

someone

something

those

yourself

 

No Excuse Words

fallen

fine

guess

have

 

Challenge Words

everybody

ourselves

several

whom

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 22: Idioms

expand

fault

finest

Memorial Day

moist

nurses

ripe

salad

watered

wrong

 

No Excuse Words

fallen

fine

guess

have

 

Challenge Words

obeyed

shoed

shooed

width

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 23: Adverbs

always

eagerly

farther

forever

forward

later

quite

sleepily

tomorrow

usually

 

No Excuse Words

funny

game

going

gold

 

Challenge Words

basically

especially

eventually

frequently

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 24: Prepositions

above

across

against

around

behind

below

during

down

toward

within

 

No Excuse Words

glad

glass

try

world

 

Challenge Words

beneath

beyond

except

through

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 25: Suffixes            -ful, -able, -less

ageless

agreeable

beautiful

countless

enjoyable

forgetful

lovable

penniless

thoughtless

wonderful

 

No Excuse Words

turtle

TV

wish

word

 

Challenge Words

constable

doubtful

excitable

successful

 

+2 Personal Words

Week 26: Suffixes          -ness, -ion, -tion, -ment

amusement

attention

champion

creation

election

freshness

happiness

pavement

shipment

sickness

 

No Excuse Words

wait

warm

wind

winter

 

Challenge Words

argument

cement

education

government

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 27:  Suffixes             -ly and –fully

angrily

easily

exactly

friendly

hopefully

playfully

quietly

regretfully

steadily

truthfully

 

No Excuse Words

wash

we’ll

went

wet

 

Challenge Words

reply

strangely

surely

thoughtfully

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 28: Conjunctions

although

because

either

since

though

unless

until

whenever

while

yet

 

No Excuse Words

well

write

young

zoo

 

Challenge Words

angel

angle

liar

pleasure

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 29: Interjections

amazing

breathe

carefree

fashion

gigantic

hooray

merit

ouch

partner

yea

 

No Excuse Words

hat

hear

keep

yell

 

Challenge Words

cease

celebration

eureka

ugh

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 30: Compound Words

forty-six

good-bye

headquarters

lifeguard

loudspeaker

motorcycle

nightmare

newspaper

skyscraper

strawberry

 

No Excuse Words

hello

hen

hurt

jay

 

Challenge Words

audiotape

earthquake

homestead

windshield

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 31:  Consonant Doubling

admitted

beginning

coolly

hopping

knotted

quitting

shopped

starring

totally

wagged

 

No Excuse Words

hi

hid

horse

hot

 

Challenge Words

controlled

hoping

slippery

staring

 

+2 Personal Words

 

Week 32:  Irregular Verbs

forget

forgot

forgotten

speak

spoke

spoken

taught

tear

tore

torn

 

No Excuse Words

hide

high

hole

kind

 

Challenge Words

choose

chose

lose

lost

 

+2 Personal Words

 

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