25 words · ages 5–11

Thanksgiving spelling words: all 25 words

Turkey, harvest and grateful — the November list. Every word is below — copy them, print the page, or tap once to have SpellChirp hatch the lot with definitions, audio and syllables.
  1. pie
  2. corn
  3. feast
  4. share
  5. turkey
  6. gather
  7. autumn
  8. leaves
  9. acorn
  10. dinner
  11. family
  12. harvest
  13. gravy
  14. pilgrim
  15. plenty
  16. grateful
  17. thankful
  18. blessing
  19. stuffing
  20. pumpkin
  21. November
  22. cranberry
  23. tradition
  24. celebrate
  25. Thanksgiving

Practise these 25 words, free

One tap puts the whole list in the nest. Each word arrives with a definition a child can read, audio and its syllables — then SpellChirp reads them out, marks the spelling and brings back the ones that went wrong. No account needed to start, and no advertising on either plan.

Where this list comes from

Compiled by SpellChirp from common classroom themes. These are our own lists, and like everything else on these pages they are free to read, copy and print.

Words grouped by the theme a classroom is doing — a holiday, a season, a topic. Not a published curriculum: a ready-made list for the week the homework names a subject and leaves the word-picking to you.

How to practise a list this long

Not all at once. Five to ten words a week is the pace that sticks; a list of a hundred is a term’s work, not a weekend’s, and a child who meets ten words five times learns more than one who meets fifty once.

Most theme words play fair — they spell the way they sound, one syllable at a time. Say the word slowly, write a syllable per beat, then check. The long ones are the fun ones: Thanksgiving is a handful of easy pieces, not one hard word.

Count a word as learned when it has been spelled correctly on three separate days. That is the rule SpellChirp uses, and it is roughly where a word stops needing to be looked up.