Free Homeschool Spelling & Vocabulary Curriculum

The Aldine Spellers  (1st to 8th)

The Aldine Speller series teaches spelling through dictation exercises. The series includes a teacher’s manual. You may read the books online or download and print them.

Barefoot Ragamuffin Curriculum  (1st – 4th)

This spelling journal eBook provides practice for spelling rules and phonographs. It is intended for use alongside another spelling program or prepared dictation. Seventy-five phonogram flash cards are also included in the download.

Bible Based Spelling  (1st – 3rd)  C

These downloadable spelling lessons use words taken from the first 35 Bible lessons at Garden of Praise, Stories from the Old and New Testaments.

The Child’s Own Spelling Book  (2nd – 8th)

This book contains spelling lists for each grade, as well as teaching suggestions.

Cozy Spelling  (7th)

The Cozy Spelling Course is a 36-week text and audio based curriculum that teaches the spelling of 600 7th grade level words. Pretests, exercises, dictation sentences, spelling rules, final tests, and answer keys are included.

Dictation Day by Day  (2nd – 6th)

This classic textbook series guides students through daily dictation lessons that naturally strengthen spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and sentence structure. You may use the textbooks online or download and print them.

GradeSpelling.com  (1st – 8th)

This website provides grade-level spelling lists, practice worksheets, handwriting worksheets using the spelling words, quizzes, and tests. While these resources are all free, the Vocab Loco part of the website requires a paid subscription.

GreatSchools.org  (2nd – 5th)

GreatSchools.org provides weekly grade-level spelling lists with a worksheet for each list.

The Homeschool Daily  (1st – 5th)

This website provides printable spelling worksheets to use with K12 Reader’s spelling lists.

K12 Reader  (1st – 5th & 8th – 12th)

K12 Reader’s spelling courses for 1st to 5th grade consist of downloadable spelling lists, practice worksheets, and dictation sentences. The spelling words correlate to K12 Reader’s weekly reading comprehension worksheets for these grades. Additionally, they offer a downloadable one-year high school spelling course which can be taken at any point during high school or in 8th grade for some students.

Literacy Through Language  (1st – 5th)

This website provides spelling lists grouped by phonics patterns, free downloads of the books The Code Breaking Club and Sound, Structure, Spell, and other helpful resources for teaching spelling.

McGraw Hill  (1st – 12th)

This website provides PDF downloads of Treasures Spelling workbooks for 1st through 6th grade and Spelling Power workbooks for 7th through 12th grade. These resources are listed in a long list of other links. Scroll down to the “Completely FREE PDF Work Books” heading and click “Spelling Book” under your child’s grade level.

McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book  (2nd – 6th)  C

This classic textbook provides 248 lessons on spelling, pronunciation, abbreviations, usage, vocabulary, and more. The lessons begin with letter sounds and then build in difficulty.

The Phonics Page  (2nd – 12th)  C

This website’s series of video-based spelling lessons help students (4th grade and up) improve their spelling by teaching phonetic spelling and syllable division rules. Children reading below the 4th grade level who need spelling help should use phonics lessons.

Reading Vine  (K – 3rd)

This website provides printable weekly spelling lists for each grade. Choose your child’s grade from the drop down spelling menu at the top of the website.

Reading Eggs  (1st – 6th)

These downloadable spelling workbooks provide practice in digraphs, prefixes, suffixes, word building, common spelling rules, and more.  Choose “spelling” in the “focus skill” section of the filters menu to display all the spelling workbooks.

Spelling for Writing  (1st – 5th)

These downloadable workbooks teach both spelling and writing skills. There are corresponding parent guidebooks available for some levels.

Spelling Training  (1st – 5th)

This website offers online spelling practice, spelling games, and tests. Parents can import their own words or use premade grade level or themed lists.

Spelling Words Well  (K – 12th)

SWW provides spelling lists, worksheets, activities, and games. The website also has spelling bee word lists and resources.

Splendid Spelling  (1st – 3rd)  C

This downloadable workbook created by Mom Delights is designed to lay a strong foundation for spelling in less than a year. Each lesson introduces a spelling rule and reinforces the rule with activities and exercises.

TLS Books  (1st – 4th)

TLS Books provides spelling lists with printable practice worksheets.

Tree Valley Academy  (1st – 6th)

This website provides themed spelling lists that incorporate the Fry and Dolch sight words. There are 36 spelling lists per grade. Some of the lists also have corresponding printable worksheets.

Wheeler’s Elementary Speller  (2nd – 5th)

With this textbook, students learn and practice spelling rules through copywork, dictation, and other assignments.

Wheeler’s Graded Studies in Great Authors  (5th – 10th)

Each lesson in this book begins by introducing a spelling rule. Then, the lesson provides a page of quotes from well-known authors that contain words that follow the rule. Students copy these quotes and write them from dictation to practice spelling.

Word and Sentence Book: A Graded Course in Spelling  (2nd – 8th)

These vintage textbooks teach spelling through dictation and copywork. The books also provide practice in grammar, punctuation, and dictionary skills. Book One is for 2nd through 4th grades, and Book Two is for 5th through 8th grades.

Free Vocabulary Curriculum

GetWorksheets.com  (3rd – 6th)

This website provides vocabulary worksheets organized by the skill they focus on. There are worksheets for Greek and Latin roots, homonyms, homophones, idioms, suffixes, and much more.

Hand2Mind  (K – 5th)

Hand2Mind offers worksheets that teach vocabulary skills.

K5 Learning  (1st – 5th)

K5 Learning’s collection of vocabulary worksheets helps students improve vocabulary, word recognition, and usage.

K12 Reader (K – 12th)

This website’s large selection of printable vocabulary worksheets covers dictionary skills, Fry sight words, Dolch sight words, phonetics, homographs, homophones, prefixes, root words, shades of meaning, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, and more.

Literacy Through Language  (4th – 8th)

This website provides downloads of the Building Knowledge Through Words workbook series, which focuses on teaching vocabulary through building morphological awareness. There is a student workbook, a teacher manual, and a slide deck for each grade level. The website also has videos that provide instructions to the teacher.

The Measured Mom  (2nd – 6th)

This downloadable vocabulary journal helps children learn and understand new words they encounter in books. The author recommends completing three to five entries per week.

VocabTest.com  (6th – 12th)

VocabTest.com teaches vocabulary through the use of online quizzes, games, and other activities. Printable quizzes and flashcards are also available.

Vocabulary.com  (5th – 12th)

Vocabulary.com is an interactive online platform for developing and practicing vocabulary. Parents may enter a list of words for their children to work on or choose a list that’s been created by other users. Parents can also paste a text passage into the website, and it will suggest words based on the text.

Vocabulary Power  (7th – 12th)

This website provides PDF downloads of Vocabulary Power workbooks. The workbooks are listed in a long list of other links. Scroll down to the “Completely FREE PDF Work Books” heading and click “Vocabulary Workbook” under your child’s grade level.

VocabularyWorkbooks.com  (6th – 12th)

This website provides vocabulary lists, practice worksheets, online practice cards, handwriting worksheets using the vocabulary words, and a quiz for each list. The high school lists cover SAT vocabulary. While these resources are all free, the Vocab Loco part of the website requires a paid subscription.

 

More Language Arts Curriculum

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