Book excerpt: In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 5, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: - contractions - blends - vowel sounds - prefixes and suffixes - compound words - words with silent letters - easily confused spellings - multisyllable words - irregular plurals Practice pages include the following: - a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word - word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences, crossword puzzles, synonyms/antonyms) - exercises with phonetic elements and other types of word study - editing for spelling Reproducible forms include: - spelling record form - individual spelling record - spelling test form - spelling list form - word sort form - parent letter