Succeeding With Reading

Emerson Sight Word Initiative

REQUIRED

FIFTH GRADE WORD LIST

By Trimester

1^st Trimester

accident balloon bend born bump card

chalk church company cough creek danger

double early empty fair fit fur

golden hour laid lesson lunch mend

Mr. Mrs. Ms. peach peas picnic

pound quit ribbon rubber sail serve

short skirt sore stairs stove sweater

thick tub waste wide yes aren’t

hadn’t here’s I’ve one’s that’s we’d

who’d you’re bluebird something whenever himself

windshield toothbrush motorcycle aircraft wallpaper lifetime

lighthouse grasshopper flagpole peace lifejacket

2^nd Trimester

ache bank bill brick burnt careless

cheek circle cookie course crowd date

drawer easy engine feed flag grade

hung hammer lamb lettuce march mill

nails northwest number pain peacetime present

quite robin rug salt shadow shoulder

soap sorry station straight sweep thin

twelve wave wing yesterday can’t hasn’t

I’d let’s she’d they’d we’ll who’s

you’ve wheelchair matchbox handbag playroom bedspread

seashore treetop pegboard classmate fireplace barnyard

evergreen afternoon airport sandbox suitcase

3^rd Trimester

afternoon bath blackboard broken busy case

chimney class cool cousin crown desk

drug edge eraser felt follow grain

indoors lamp line minute nap nurse

outdoors outside pair pen pencil pillow

press radio roof ruler sandwich shake

silk sock space sting strong sweet

thirsty twenty wear winter yet couldn’t

haven’t I’ll mightn’t she’ll they’ll we’re

won’t railroad bookcase horseshoe worksheet watercolor

downpour fingertip shortstop flashlight pigtail slowpoke

moonlight teenager

Extend Your Skills

alone bathe butcher clear dentist fellow

forth instead handkerchief