Sixth Grade Spelling Words

You'll notice that our sixth grade spelling words look a lot more difficult than our fifth grade spelling words! Why is the difficulty level so much greater?

1.  Students' vocabularies are increasing rapidly.
2.  Sixth graders are using words with more and more prefixes and suffixes. (Examples: unbelievable, independence)
3.  Other subject areas, like math and science, require students to know how to spell harder words. (Examples: denominator, pollution)

List of Sixth Grade Spelling Words

Printable version of our Sixth Grade Spelling Words

Remember to get the pdf of all 300 words, with these three pages in all:

If these sixth grade words aren't quite right, try these:

• Fifth Grade Spelling Words
• Seventh Grade Spelling Words

More Sixth Grade Spelling Resources

Sixth Grade Spelling Word Lists and Activities provide extra practice for your students with 240 spelling words, using a wide range of activities. Go to the full description page where you can view samples and purchase your own copy immediately! Great for home school, remote learning and in-person classrooms. Also available for Fifth Grade.

Double Take - One of our newest word search puzzles printable! This is TWO fun puzzles in one! First you must finish spelling the words on the word list by inserting the correct pair of missing double letters. There are 42 words in all, and many possible combinations, but only one that works! When you've finished that puzzler, then you can search for all 42 in the word search puzzle. How long will it take you to complete this double take/double treat???

NEW! Come to the Concert! It's one of our newest word search puzzles printables! Forty words appear in any direction in this large word search diagram. But several of the words are purposely misspelled on the list. Fix the misspellings first, then search for all the correctly spelled words in the puzzle. Can you also solve the BONUS activity at the end?  Get into your own rhythm as you work your way through this fun challenge!

Vicious Vowels Search and Find Word Puzzle - Look for 45 words with tricky vowel spellings in this fun word search puzzle! Built-in practice activities will enhance learning. Extension activities also included on the web page. Words appear on our list of sixth grade spelling words, but 4th grade through adult ages will enjoy this challenge!

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6th Grade Spelling Bee Words - Prepare your child for a spelling bee competition with this word list.

NEW! 101 Journal Prompts for upper elementary and middle school students! Use all year long, at home or in the classroom! Prompts are arranged into 20 topics including pets, imagination, music, celebrations, the future, technology, and more. Assign a topic at time, or turn your students loose to select their own. Appropriate responses could be a sentence or two up to a full page. It's your choice, or theirs!

Try using our dictation sentences for a fun way to practice sixth grade spelling words!  I've composed twenty grade-appropriate sentences, using spelling words from this list for you to use as a dictation exercise. Use a few or a lot at any time! Use my sentences as models to write more of your own. Tips included for giving dictation.

Cryptogram Worksheet: Puzzle page for upper grades. Includes instructions so students, parents or teachers can make more cryptogram puzzles with any word list. You really have to know how to spell well to write and solve these fun, challenging word puzzles. If you really like cryptogram puzzles, please visit my other website!

NEW!   300 Commonly Misspelled Words - Skim this long list of words to find the ones you misspell the most often. Then follow the tips on this page to master their correct spellings. Why make the same mistakes over and over again when you CAN improve your spelling skills?! A free printable page is included, along with many additional helpful resources. 

Croaky Meets the Plumber and Extra Letters Worksheets: Students chose the correctly spelled words to complete an interesting story or eliminate extra letters to solve a word puzzle.

Fifty-Fifty - Fun word game for kids. Older students earn points as they engage in word play and spelling fun.

Wacky packages! - Find the spelling errors on these whimsical boxes.  One of our most popular pages! Students must carefully read a box of frozen waffels (?) or a bored (?) game box for more wacky misspelled words. Kids LOVE to find other people's mistakes!

Find the Right Words: Students identify correctly spelled words in a list and then find them in a fun word search puzzle.

Our Spelling Bee Toolbox eBooks are comprehensive resources for anyone who wants a simple way to put together a classroom, all-school or multi-school spelling bee. One volume is written for Grades 3-5; the other is customized for Grades 6-8. SAVE when you purchase both!

Each eBook contains 600 words and sentences, rules, award certificates, organizational tips, student helps and much more. We also offer additional sets of 600 spelling bee words and sentences for those who don't need all the other bells and whistles. Also, see our 100 Difficult Words for Spelling Bees that includes definitions, pronunciations, sentences and more.

Spelling Quizzes from the Evening News - 4 fun spelling exercises. Can your students find and correct all the mistakes in these news reports?

We have a wide assortment of Spelling Worksheets and Spelling Word Games. You may also be interested in our resources for 7th-9th grade.

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Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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Sixth Grade Word Lists & Activities: 240 Superb words and lots of learning activities! No printer needed. Also available for fifth grade.  Learn more>>

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Spelling Bee Toolboxes for Grades 3/5 and 6/8   All the resources you need for a successful bee! 

Monumental Spelling Bee Word Lists for grades 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8 with definitions, sentences and languages

Mammoth Spelling Bee Word Lists  for grades 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8  with sentences, definitions, and languages

Young Spellers Spelling Bee Word List for Grades 1 & 2 only 

100 Difficult Spelling Bee Words with Definitions, Sentences and Pronunciations, Volumes 1 and 2

600 Spelling Bee Words & Sentences for Gr 3/5 & 6/8 Extra words & sentences at two levels