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Eighth Grade Spelling Curriculum Guide
Eighth Grade Spelling Curriculum Guide
Schedule: 5-day/week lesson plan
Instructions: This curriculum guide provides a full year of instruction using the materials on
SchoolhouseTeachers.com. If you choose to use this method, you do not need to use the lesson plans that are
included with each separate course. This guide incorporates all the content and assignments needed to meet all the
objectives on the Scope and Sequence. Please note that this is only one way to address the objectives for the year.
We encourage you to find a combination of materials, both on and off of our site, that best fits your family.
Resources needed:
• Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com
• Paper and pencil
Eighth Grade Spelling Curriculum Guide
Week 1: Affixes hyper-, hypo-/hyp-, omni-
Week 2: Affixes homo-, hetero-, ultra-
Week 3: Affixes -cide, -ery
Week 4: Affixes -ary, -ium
Week 5: Affixes -tude, -y
Week 6: Review
Week 7: Words Borrowed from Italian
Week 8: Words Borrowed from German
Week 9: Words Borrowed from French
Week 10: Words Borrowed from Spanish
Week 11: Words Borrowed from Arabic
Week 12: Review
Week 13: Roots don-, luc-, -mania, -nate
Week 14: Roots neg-, neo-, nov-
Week 15: Roots phys-, psych-, reg-, sci-
Week 16: Roots sol-, tact-, terr-
Week 17: Roots vac-, ver-
Week 18: Review
Week 19: Words Borrowed from Russian
Week 20: Words Borrowed from Japanese
Week 21: Words Borrowed from Indian/Hindi
Week 22: Words Borrowed from Polynesian
Week 23: Words Borrowed from Native American
Week 24: Review
Week 25: Roots aud-, cred-, arche-, belli-
Week 26: Roots clam-, crat-, hemo-, lun-
Week 27: Roots mar-, mort-, path-, pell-
Week 28: Roots stru-, vid-, voc-, cog-
Week 29: Roots loqu-, ben-, cardi-, ego-
Week 30: Review
Week 31: Animals
Week 32: Countries
Week 33: Math
Week 34: Science
Week 35: Places
Week 36: Review