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WEEK 1 - "BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE"

admire
magnet
contest
method
custom
rally
soccer
engine
sudden
finger
accident
mitten
intend
fabric
flatten
rascal
gutter
mammal
happen
cannon
CHALLENGE WORDS
dungeon
magnify
festival
thunderstorm
injury

WEEK 2 - "Lewis and Clark and Me"

sigh
right
weigh
eight
detail
height
spray
braid
bait
grain
slight
thigh
tight
raisin
trait
highway
frighten
dismay
freight
sleigh
CHALLENGE WORDS
eighteen
mayonnaise
campaign
daylight
twilight

WEEK 3 - "Grandfather's Journey"

sweet
each
three
least
freedom
below
throat
float
foam
flown
greet season
croak
shallow
eagle
indeed
rainbow
grown
seaweed
hollow
CHALLENGE WORDS
Halloween
speedometer
underneath
seacoast
cocoa

WEEK 4 - "The Horned Toad Prince"

prairie
calorie
honey
valley
money
finally
movie
country
empty
city
rookie
hockey
collie
breezy
jury
balcony
steady
alley
trolley
misty
CHALLENGE WORDS
frequency
parsley
journey
chimney
attorney

WEEK 5 - "Letters Home From Yosemite"

usual
huge

flute
mood
smooth
threw
afternoon
scooter
juice
cruise
truth
bruise
cruel
excuse
pupil
groove
confuse
humor
duty
curfew
CHALLENGE WORDS
influence
aluminum
nutrition
accumulate
igloo

WEEK 6 - "What Jo Did"

monkeys
friends
plays
supplies
taxes
holidays
months
companies
costumes
sandwiches
hobbies
daisies
delays
scratches
counties
teammates
memories
bunches
batteries
donkeys
CHALLENGE WORDS
eyelashes
ambulances
trophies
secretaries
inventories

WEEK 7 - "Coyote School News"

videos
teeth
potatoes
themselves
lives
leaves
cliffs
roofs
halves
moose
radios
sheep
cuffs
beliefs
patios
banjos
tornadoes
tomatoes
hoofs
loaves
CHALLENGE WORDS
portfolios
embargoes
handkerchiefs
calves
lassoes

WEEK 8 - "Grace and the Time Machine"

morning
forest
garbage
form
alarm
corner
story
argue
backyard
start
partner
storm
Florida
apartment
sport
force
forward
sharp
garden
Arkansas
CHALLENGE WORDS
departure
margarine
informative
snorkel
carnation

WEEK 9 - "Marven of the Great North Woods"

Thanksgiving
among
think
blank
graph
young
wheel
nephew
belong
whiskers
whisper
elephant
white
shrink
wharf
trunk
strong
blink
chunk
skunk
CHALLENGE WORDS
strengthen
bankrupt
phantom
whimsical
whatever

WEEK 11 - "So You Want to Be President?"


return
courage
surface
purpose
first
turkey
heard
early
turtle
birthday
journal
courtesy
nourish
purse
furniture
search
surtain
burrow
hamburger
survey
CHALLENGE WORDS
turquoise
absurd
furthermore
flourish
nourishment

WEEK 12 - "The Stranger"


watched
watching
danced
dancing
studied
studying
stopped
stopping
dried
drying
happened
happening
noticed
noticing
robbed
robbing
slipped
slipping
hurried
hurrying
CHALLENGE WORDS
answered
answering
magnified
nagnifying
interfered
interfering

WEEK 13 - "Adelina's Whales"


piece
peace
break
brake
threw
through
by
bye
beat
beet
thrown
throne
aloud
allowed
past
passed
weight
wait
there
their
CHALLENGE WORDS
principal
principle
symbol
cymbal
stationary
stationery

WEEK 13 - "How Night Came from the Sea"


however
mountain
mound
scout
shout
couch
towel
ounce
coward
outdoors
flowerpot
scowl
browse
announce
hound
trout
drowsy
grouch
eyebrow
boundary
CHALLENGE WORDS
cauliflower
foundation
surround
allowance
counselor

WEEK 14 - "Eye of the Storm"


watermelon
homemade
understand
sometimes
shoelace
highway
upstairs
thunderstorm
shortcut
doorbell
jellyfish
touchdown
campfire
skateboard
anyway
fireworks
haircut
loudspeaker
laptop
flashlight
CHALLENGE WORDS
masterpiece
stomachache
cliffhanger
sweatshirt
afterthought

WEEK 15 - "The Great Kapok Tree"


its
ours
mine
yours
family's
families'
man's
men's
girl's
girls'
hers
theirs
brother's
brothers'
teacher's
teachers'
aunt's
aunts'
boy's
boys'
CHALLENGE WORDS
country's
countries'
witness's
witnesses'
laboratory's
laboratories'

WEEK 16 - "The Houdini Box"

don't
won't
wouldn't
there's
we're
you're
doesn't
I've
here's
wasn't
shouldn't
couldn't
where's
hadn't
aren't
they're
it's
we've
when's
haven't
CHALLENGE WORDS
it'll
who'll
might've
mustn't
we'd

WEEK 17 - "Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon"

chicken
eleven
given
jungle
national
several
natural
needle
single
citizen
threatened
diagonal
paddle
animal
spiral
marble
oval
mumble
tangle
frighten
CHALLENGE WORDS
strengthen
knuckle
individual
cubicle
three-dimensional

WEEK 18 - "The King in the Kitchen"

brother
together
dinner
popular
center
calendar
similar
regular
summer
clever
supper
pitcher
filter
hangar
never
shelter
cellar
caterpillar
theater
deliver
CHALLENGE WORDS
character
singular
receiver
spectacular
binocular

WEEK 19 - "Seeker of Knowledge"

village
except
explain
quick
charge
bridge
knowledge
question
equal
queen
excited
expect
Texas
fudge
excellent
exercise
quart
liquid
quilt
expert
CHALLENGE WORDS
expedition
aquarium
inquire
frequent
advantage

WEEK 20 - "Encyclopedia Brown"

distrust
uncertain
incomplete
unlikely
 unfair
discontinue
unaware
disorder
discount
indirect
unopened
disrespect
unimportant
unlisted
disrepair
inability
disapprove
unsolved
disobey
unsuspecting
CHALLENGE WORDS
disintegrate
disillusioned
unconscious
unappetizing
intolerant

WEEK 21 - "Sailing Home"

reaction
prerecorded
incorrectly
incredibly
disobedient
disagreeable
refreshment
unbreakable
declaration
retirement
misdialed
undefined
unhappily
watchfully
gleefully
sportsmanship
repayment
questionable
displacement
midshipman
CHALLENGE WORDS
multicultural
universally  
understatement
outlandish
inflammable

WEEK 22 - "Lost City"

basic
vacant
secret
honor
local
novel
olive
tiger
spinach
second
donate
locust
beware
emotion
cabin
tripod
dragon
habit
tribute
lizard
CHALLENGE WORDS
icicles
lemonade
momentum
economy
isosceles

WEEK 23 - "Amelia and Eleanor"

telephone
biography
telescope
photograph
microwave
diameter
barometer
microscope
headphones
microphone
autograph
microchip
telegraph
perimeter
paragraph
phonics
symphony
saxophone
periscope
megaphone
CHALLENGE WORDS

stethoscope
xylophone
cacophony
microorganism
microbe

WEEK 24 - "Antarctic Journal"

dictionary
abrupt
predict
import
locally
verdict
locate
portable
transport
bankrupt
dictate
location
erupt
passport
export
contradict
rupture
interrupt
disrup
dislocate
CHALLENGE WORDS

vindictive
portfolio
jurisdiction
corruption
interruption

WEEK 25 - "Moonwalk"

please
pleasant
breath
breathe
image
imagine
product
production
heal
health
triple
triplet
relate
relative
meter
metric
compose
composition
crumb
crumble
CHALLENGE WORDS

origin
original
academy
academic
inspire
inspiration

WEEK 26 - ""