7th grade · Spelling
What a 7th grade student learns in Spelling
Grade 7 spelling centers on morphological analysis of Greek and Latin roots, advanced affixes, and complex orthographic patterns so students accurately spell multisyllabic academic vocabulary in their writing.
The skills for the year
- 1Spell words formed from common Greek roots (bio, chron, graph, log, meter, phon, scope, tele)
- 2Spell words formed from common Latin roots (dict, ject, port, rupt, scrib/script, spect, tract, vid/vis)
- 3Apply prefixes (anti-, circum-, inter-, mal-, multi-, post-, semi-, sub-, super-, trans-) when spelling
- 4Apply suffixes (-able/-ible, -ance/-ence, -ant/-ent, -ious/-eous, -tion/-sion) when spelling
- 5Choose correctly between confusable endings (-able vs. -ible, -ence vs. -ance, -ent vs. -ant)
- 6Spell multisyllabic words containing the schwa in unstressed syllables
- 7Distinguish and spell grade-level homophones and near-homophones (accept/except, affect/effect, principal/principle, complement/compliment)
- 8Apply advanced doubling, silent-e drop, and y-to-i rules when adding endings to multisyllabic bases
- 9Spell irregular and compound plurals and possessives accurately
- 10Use word origin and etymology clues to determine correct spelling
- 11Spell content-area academic vocabulary from science, social studies, and mathematics
- 12Master high-frequency commonly misspelled words (accommodate, conscience, definite, necessary, occurrence, privilege, separate)
- 13Spell words containing silent consonants and less-common letter patterns
- 14Proofread writing to locate and correct spelling errors, including those missed by spell-check
- 15Consult print and digital references (dictionaries, spell-checkers used critically) to verify spellings
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