Name Spelling
Inflected Endings:
Word Sort
ripped flipping tapped skipping
ripping flagged tapping saved
cared flagging tasted saving
caring forced tasting discussed
flipped forcing skipped discussing
© Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Pattern Power!
Write the spelling words that double the consonant before adding the -ed.
1. 4.
2. 5.
3.
Write the spelling words that drop the e before adding the -ed.
6. 8.
7. 9.
Write the spelling words that double the consonant before adding
the -ing.
10. 13.
11. 14.
12.
Write the spelling words that drop the e before adding the -ing.
15. 17.
16. 18.
Write the spelling word that just adds the -ed.
19.
Write the spelling word that just adds the -ing.
20.
Dear Mrs. LaRue • Grade 4 /Unit 4 99
Name Spelling
Inflected Endings
with y to i:
Word Sort
pennies marries prettily merrier
cozily carries happiest dizziest
lazier easily emptier funnier
replied silliest sorriest jumpier
worried cries families varied
© Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Pattern Power!
Write the spelling words that drop the y before adding -ies.
1. 3. 5.
2. 4.
Write the spelling words that drop the y before adding the -ily.
6. 7. 8.
Write the spelling words that drop the y before adding -iest.
9. 11.
10. 12.
Write the spelling words that drop the y before adding the -ier.
13. 15. 17.
14. 16.
Write the spelling words that drop the y before adding the -ied.
18. 19. 20.
Write the following words in alphabetical order: cries, happiest,
emptier, dizziest, funnier, varied, pennies, cozily, worried, easily.
21. 25. 28.
22. 26. 29.
23. 27. 30.
24.
The Blind Hunter • Grade 4 /Unit 4 105
Name Spelling
Inflected Endings
with y to i:
Word Sort should you’ll crew food stoop
zoom wool spool used move
tunes mood stool grew stew
brooks suits cookie group huge
Pattern Power!
Write the spelling word under the spelling pattern to which it
belongs.
© Macmillan/McGraw-Hill /ü/ spelled oo /ü/ spelled ou
1. 13.
2. 14.
3.
4. /u/ spelled oul
5.
6. 15.
/u/ spelled oo /ü/ spelled ew
7. 16.
8. 17.
9. 18.
/u/ spelled u-e /ü/ spelled ui
10. 19.
11.
12. /ü/ spelled o-e
20.
Energy: Power Source 111
Grade 4 /Unit 4
Name Spelling
Words with /ô/:
Word Sort
pouch gown voyage howling
noises mound annoy cough
flower frown hound wound
south pound grown thousand
cowboy voices grouch tower
Pattern Power!
Write the spelling words that have these patterns.
/ou/ spelled ou /ou/ spelled ow
1. 14.
2. 15.
3. 16.
4. 17.
5. 18.
© Macmillan/McGraw-Hill 6. /oi/ spelled oi
7.
8. 19.
20.
/ô/ spelled ou
Order Please!
9.
Write the following words in
/oi/ spelled oy alphabetical order: hound,
grown, thousand, pouch, flower.
10. 21.
11. 22.
12. 23.
24.
/o/ spelled ow 25.
13.
Adelina’s Whales • Grade 4 /Unit 4 117
Name bald halt stalk Spelling
squall strawberry shawl
small talking walker awe Words with /ô/:
laws drawn fought chalk
caller Word Sort
false
thought
caught
straw
half
Pattern Power!
Write the spelling word under the matching vowel sound.
/ô/ spelled a /ô/ spelled al
1. 14.
2. 15.
3. 16.
4.
5. /ô/ spelled ough
6.
7. 17.
18.
/ô/ spelled awe
/ô/ spelled augh
8.
19.
/ô/ spelled aw
/a/ spelled al
9.
10. 20.
11.
© Macmillan/McGraw-Hill 12.
13.
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Grade 4/Unit 4