Mount Pleasant Area School District

Reading Unit Spelling/Vocabulary Words

Book 1 Unit 1 Spelling Units

Reading Story

Challenge Words

Spelling Words

Vocabulary

A Fine, Fine School

hospital

fantastic

crop      plan     thing     smell

shut     sticky     spent     lunch

pumpkin   clock   gift   class

skip     swing     next   hug

principal         proud

soared            announced

strolled          fine

worried         certainly

The Trial of Cardigan Jones

surprise

decide

spoke   mile    save    excuse

cone     invite   cube   price

erase    ripe    broke    flame

life     rule     these     those

trial              pointed

jury               honest

convinced     murmur

guilty            stand

Destiny’s Gift

yesterday

explain

lay     real    trail    sweet

today dream  seem   paint

tea   treat    afraid     leave

bait screen speed   please

afford           earn

customers     figures

contacted      block

raise             spreading

Pop’s Bridge

tomorrow

sailboats

load     open    told     yellow

soak     shadow  foam   follow

glow     sold     window  coach

almost   throat   cold   most

crew            foggy

tide              disappears

cling            stretch

balancing     excitement

Roberto Clemente  Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates

silent

frightening

slight    mild    sight    pie

mind    tie    pilot     find

night     might  lie   tight

blind     fight   die   midnight

 

stands         slammed

fans            polish

score          style

league       pronounced

Book 1 Unit 2 Spelling Units

Reading Story

Challenge Words

Spelling Words

Target Vocabulary

Max’s Words

comb

holiday

math      paid         piles

toast      cheese      sticky

easy       June         each

socks     elbow       both

Friday    program   stuff

shiny

collect          ragged

scrambled    rapidly

orders          continued

sorted           darted

 

What do Illustrators Do?

straight

scramble

three     strange      strong

scrap     throw         scratch

street     string         think

spring    scrape        they

thrill      spray         scream

threw

 

tracing         sketches

imagine         research

illustrate       textures

scribbles       tools

 

The Harvest Birds

wrinkle

knuckle

Itch        watch        match

Wreck    knife         wrong

Knee     stretch        know

Patch     write          catch

Wrap     knew         knot

knock

harvest          advice

separate         borrow

ashamed        patch

borders          serious

Kamishibai Man

mountain

coward

clown      thousand     frown

round      crowd         pound

bow         sound         house

cloud       count          found

power      powder       crown

blouse

familiar         blurry

jerky             rude

vacant          blasted

rickety          applause

Young Thomas Edison

often

strawberry

talk         crawl         lawn

cross       chalk         always

awful       also          soft

law           raw          small

cloth        salt           cost       wall

 

signal            laboratory

genius          experiment

gadget          occasional

invention     electric


Book 1 Unit 3 Spelling Units

Reading Story

Challenge Words

Spelling Words

Target Vocabulary

Jump

poison

destroy

joy       noise       choice

point    spoil        boil

voice    toy          come

join      joint         are

oil        boy          coin       soil

championship       rooting

power                    court

professional          competitor

athlete                   entire

The Science Fair

peace

piece

hole        won        fur

whole     one         fir

its           our          road

it’s          hour        rode

hear        their       there      here

report               educational

erupt                 certificate

presentation      impressive

creative             charts

Yonder Mountain

we’re

weren’t

I’d         wouldn’t     he’d

he’s     what’s        they’re

haven’t   she’s        can’t

doesn’t    aren’t      isn’t

let’s         hasn’t      there’s

couldn’t

peak             rugged

examined    pausing

fondly         mist

steep            pleaded

Aero and Officer Mike

partner

fortune

horse       March       chore

mark        north        restore

storm       barking    dark

market    stork          story

acorn       thorn        forest

artist              

lying            quiver

loyal             patrol

partners        ability

shift              snap

 

The Extra-good Sunday

perfect

hamburger

nurse      serve        stir

work       curly        firm

shirt        dirt           her

hurt         third         girl

first         worry      word     turn

anxiously         recommended

degrees            remarked

tense                festive

ingredients      cross

 

Book 2 Unit 4 Spelling Units

Reading Story

Challenge Words

Spelling Words

Target Vocabulary

A Mr. Rubbish Mood

earring

compare

air           hair         ear

wear       care         beard

chair      pear         buy

stairs      pair         year

bare       share      bear      near

recycle        complicated        hardly       project

global           shade                  dripping   rubbish

pollution       carton

The Albertosaurus Mystery

excited

gigantic

age        pencil      bounce

space    circle       huge

change  once        nice

jawbone  large     place

jacket     dance    giant     jeans

clues       fossils        buried      remains

skeletons  fierce       evidence   uncovering

location    prove

A Tree is Growing

correct

question

shark      second    Africa    

check     squeeze   Mexico

queen     quart       black

circus     squeak    thank

flake      quick       crack     coldest

pollen        absorb       spines     store

throughout  tropical    clumps    coverings

dissolve     passages

Dogzilla

loose

jewel

mood       true        food

wooden   crooked  pooch

drew        chew      blew

smooth    tooth      foot

blue         hooves   balloon   cool

 

fiery      mysterious     horrifying    within

emergency   prehistoric    scientific   panicking

immediately     ancient

 

Life on the Ice

scorekeeper

everybody

birthday  airplane    sunburned

anyone    grandmother   daylight

sometimes   something   someone

everything   without       cannot

homework   himself     afternoon

faraway

 

shelter       wilderness        gliding

layer          region               overheated

constant    unexpected       colony

climate

 

Book 2 Unit 5 Spelling Units

Reading Story

Challenge Words

Spelling Words

Target Vocabulary

Two Bad Ants

freezing

scared

coming       saving     gripped

swimming  stared      tasted

dropping     planned    making

tapping       changing  stopped

taping      joking     invited   loved

 

scout     puzzling     liquid     narrow

glassy   soggy         surrounded    violently

unaware   underground

 

The Journey:  Stories of Migration

countries

libraries

cities       parties       spied

cried       tried          ponies

puppies  pennies     pretty

hurried   fried          very

stories    carried     flies    babies

survival    accidents     landscape   migrate

solid       thunderous   plenty       chilly

dramatic    frightening

The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman

listener

calmly

singer     powerful    wonderful

loudly    farmer        truly

joyful    quickly       hopeful

teacher  careful       safely

fighter   friendly    closely  speaker

 

sincere     loaded     currently    conversations

reunion    terror       managed    loveliest

pleasure   inspired

Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves

unbuckle

unknown

unfold      repaid      reuse

rejoin       rewrite     unsure

untie        unhurt      reread

reheat      recheck    unsafe

unfair      unlucky   unclear  unwrap

guided     twisted     spotted     rippled

aboard     bay           arrival      anchor

lava         voyage 

Mountains:  Surviving on Mt. Everest

breathless

eagerness

painless    hopeful    spotless

sickness   darkness   softness

sadness    fearless     useful

helpless    thickness  weakly

thankless  careless    kindness

goodness

approached    equipment     altitude

section            tanks             succeed

avalanches     slopes            halt

increases

 

Book 2 Unit 6 Spelling Units

Reading Story

Challenge Words

Spelling Words

Target Vocabulary

The Foot Race Across America

expect

wisdom

person     forget    umpire

helmet    problem   herself

until        Sunday    after

carpet     garden      under

Monday  order       enjoy   mistake

principal       loyal      absorb     proud

collect          ancient   announced

ability       loveliest     advice

The Power of Magnets

stubborn

mirror

jelly      cherry       letter

bottom  sudden     button

pillow   arrow      funny

happen  dollar     better

butter     hello    lesson    rabbit

research     invention      power     tools

experiment  prove          familiar   electric

scientific    gadget

Becoming Anything He Wants to Be

sought

naughty

taught    ought     enough

thought  caught    brought

rough     fought    was

laugh      daughter   draw

bought    tough     cough    though

throughout    tropical     landscape

textures        report      slopes

peak     educational     altitude

steep

A New Team of Heroes

whistle

character

apple      purple     center

river       later          double

little       November   flower

October  giggle      people

ladder   uncle    summer   winter

excitement    athlete     tense     score

rooting         creative   darted    competitor

succeed    championship

 

Saving Buster

awhile

beyond

below      because      along

about      above         before

belong    between     away

around     alive        want

again       behind     alone   begin

worried       applause     emergency    certainly

impressive    dramatic    raise          anxiously

guided       afford