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Grade-Level Suggestions for 6–12 Heroes
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Recommended Power Spelling Games for Grades 6–12

🐝 Spelling Bee

Encourages students to apply spelling accuracy, pattern recognition, and word mastery with more complex word lists.

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🚀 Spelling Odyssey

Provides longer, layered gameplay that supports sustained focus and deeper spelling application.

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🚗 Word Racer

Students type words quickly as they hear them, building spelling fluency, accuracy, and speed.

🧭 Vocabulary Quest

Students build word knowledge, context understanding, and vocabulary retention in an engaging format.

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🧩 Vocabulary Match

Reinforces word–definition connections and vocabulary accuracy, making it useful for content-area word lists and review practice.

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🧠 Memory Match

Strengthens word recognition, recall, and spelling reinforcement through repeated exposure to assigned words.

6–12 Spelling & Vocabulary Word Lists

These suggested word lists align with Common Core standards and support differentiated instruction. Use the tabs below to explore each 6–12 grade level.

Sixth grade strengthens students’ ability to analyze complex word structure, academic vocabulary, and domain-specific terms. Spelling instruction supports comprehension across subjects and prepares students for increasingly advanced texts.

Team Boost (Below Level)

Reinforce common roots and manageable academic vocabulary.


Spelling List (10 words)

  • predict

  • describe

  • explain

  • teacher

  • careless

  • movement

  • agreement

  • education

  • possible

  • information


Focus:

  • Familiar suffixes (-ment, -tion)

  • Multisyllabic academic words

  • Reinforcement of foundational morphology

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Vocabulary List (8–10 words)

  • evidence

  • conclude

  • compare

  • summarize

  • influence

  • structure

  • process

  • function

  • analyze

  • determine


Focus: Core academic language needed across content areas.

Team Core (On Level)

Greek/Latin roots and content-area vocabulary.


Spelling List (12 words)

  • biography

  • autobiography

  • geography

  • democracy

  • transportation

  • transformation

  • inspection

  • construction

  • visible

  • invisible

  • cooperation

  • responsibility


Focus:

  • Roots (bio, geo, graph, port, spect, struct)

  • Prefixes (auto-, trans-, in-, co-)

  • Suffixes (-tion, -sion, -ity)


Vocabulary List (10–12 words)

  • interpret

  • evaluate

  • justify

  • significant

  • relevant

  • consequence

  • hypothesis

  • perspective

  • investigate

  • formulate

  • contrast

  • demonstrate


Focus: Academic and analytical vocabulary used in middle school writing.

Team Flight (Above Level)

Advanced morphology and discipline-specific academic language.


Spelling List (15 words)

  • extraordinary

  • civilization

  • constitution

  • investigation

  • interpretation

  • industrialization

  • communication

  • environmental

  • controversial

  • philosophical

  • mathematical

  • scientific

  • psychological

  • responsibility

  • transformation


Focus:

  • Complex suffixes (-ation, -ial, -ical)

  • Advanced Greek/Latin roots

  • Content-area terminology


Vocabulary List (12–15 words)

  • synthesize

  • articulate

  • substantiate

  • analyze

  • critique

  • infer

  • deduce

  • evaluate

  • implication

  • phenomenon

  • theoretical

  • empirical

  • significant

  • relevant

  • perspective


Focus: Abstract and discipline-specific vocabulary preparing students for upper middle school.

💡 Teacher Guidance for 6th Grade 💡
Teach morphology explicitly — break words into roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Incorporate vocabulary from science, social studies, and math units.
Encourage students to use academic vocabulary in written responses.
Reinforce spelling through context, not isolated memorization.
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