3rd Grade Spelling Words 2021-2022 School Year Assignments

Lesson 27 Spelling Words:  Consonant + le syllables
Test will be on Friday, June 3, 2022
 
1.  able
2.  handle
3.  castle
4.  towel
5.  travel
6.  purple
7.  eagle
8.  little
9.  nickel
10.  tunnel
11.  riddle
12.  puzzle
13.  pickle
14.  camel
15.  squirrel
16.  preschool
17.  rebuild
18.  unlucky
19.  motel
20.  couple

Lesson 26 Spelling Words:  Prefixes (un, re, pre, dis)
Test will be on Thursday, May 26, 2022...not on the usual Friday.
 
1.  disagreed
2.  prepaid
3.  previous
4.  resell
5.  unlucky
6.  dislike
7.  preschool
8.  rebuild
9.  reprint
10.  untied
11.  disappear
12.  precook
13.  return
14.  unwrap
15.  unbeaten
16.  robot
17.  tiny
18.  label
19.  unknown
20.  recover

Lesson 25 Spelling Words:  Open Syllables CVC
Test will be on Friday, May 20, 2022
 
1.  pilot
2.  favor
3.  cover
4.  tiny
5.  silent
6.  diner
7.  lemon
8.  shady
9.  label
10.  spider
11.  tiger
12.  planet
13.  robot
14.  cozy
15.  frozen
16.  tried
17.  hurried
18.  studying
19.  melon
20.  stomach

Lesson 24 Spelling Words:  Inflectional Endings (y to i)
Test will be on Friday, May 13th
 
1.  tries
2.  tried
3.  trying
4.  dries
5.  dried
6.  drying
7.  hurries
8.  hurried
9.  hurrying
10.  studies
11.  studied
12.  studying
13.  plays
14.  played
15.  playing
16.  chapter
17.  bedtime
18.  letter
19.  obeyed
20.  worrying

Lesson 23 Spelling Words:  Closed Syllables vc/cv
Test will be on Friday, May 6th
 
1.  basket
2.  rabbit
3.  lesson
4.  letter
5.  invite
6.  bedtime
7.  mammal
8.  number
9.  fellow
10.  chapter
11.  follow
12.  problem
13.  chicken
14.  butter
15.  napkin
16.  hoping
17.  dances
18.  dropped
19.  suppose
20.  stubborn

Lesson 22 Spelling Words:  Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing, -s
Test will be on Friday, April 29th.
 
1.  names
2.  named
3.  naming
4.  hopes
5.  hoped
6.  hoping
7.  dances
8.  danced
9.  dancing
10.  drops
11.  dropped
12.  dropping
13.  wraps
14.  wrapped
15.  wrapping
16.  basketball
17.  airplane
18.  birthday
19.  driving
20.  traded

Lesson 21 Spelling Words

Test will be on Friday, April 8, 2022.

Compound Words
 
1.  airplane
2.  daytime
3.  birthday
4.  daylight
5.  hairdo
6.  somebody
7.  birdhouse
8.  barefoot
9.  headlight
10.  sometime
11.  someone
12.  newspaper
13.  sidewalks
14.  basketball
15.  stagecoach
16.  placed
17.  office
18.  giant
19.  handwriting
20.  windshield

Lesson 20 Spelling Words 
Test will be on Friday, April 1, 2022. 

Soft c and g
 
1.  pounce
2.  cents
3.  mice
4.  age
5.  changes
6.  placed
7.  price
8.  office
9.  gyms
10.  message
11.  dice
12.  space
13.  wage
14.  giant
15.  pages
16.  your
17.  road
18.  peace
19.  giraffe
20.  peaceful

Lesson 19 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, March 25th.

Homophones

1. sale
2. sail
3. beet
4. beat
5. rode
6. road
7. rowed
8. its
9. it's
10. your
11. you're
12. their
13. they're
14. peace
15. piece
16. taught
17. talked
18. bought
19. seen
20. scene

Lesson 18 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, March 11th

Variant Vowels

1.  taught
2.  hauls
3.  caused
4.  paused
5.  squawk
6.  drawing
7.  crawl
8.  flawless
9.  lawn
10.  salt
11.  talked
12.  halls
13.  water
14.  bought
15.  thoughtless
16.  inches
17.  cities
18.  cherries
19.  walrus
20.  autumn

Lesson 17 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, March 4th

Plural Words 

1.  years
2.  twins
3.  trays
4.  states
5.  ashes
6.  foxes
7.  inches
8.  flies
9.  cities
10.  ponies
11.  bunches
12.  alleys
13.  lunches
14.  cherries
15.  daisies
16.  spoon
17.  clues
18.  shook
19.  heroes
20.  libraries

3rd Grade Sight Words Spelling List

Test will be on Friday, February 25th

1.  watch
2.  group
3.  important
4.  until
5.  children
6.  without
7.  enough
8.  family
9.  friends
10.  it's
11.  its
12.  almost
13.  awesome
14.  want
15.  went
16.  really
17.  once
18.  right
19.  write
20.  because

Native American Unit Spelling Words
*Words taken from the information in our Native American Unit

Test will be on Friday, February 18th...there should be time in between the Jog-a-thon and Awards Assembly to complete this spelling test, but if not...it will be moved to the following week, early on.

1. tribe
2. American
3. lodge
4. nomads
5. bison
6. region
7. game
8. hunt
9. hardship
10. beliefs
11. horse
12. environment
13. people
14. crops
15. drought
16. travois
17. powerful
18. conflict
19. gatherer
20. tomahawk

Valentine Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, February 11, 2022

1. February
2. friend
3. admire
4. smile
5. family
6. cherish
7. sweetheart
8. friendship
9. chocolate
10. love
11. respect
12. Valentine’s Day
13. kind
14. fourteenth
15. kindness
16. purple
17. special
18. heart
19. candy
20. holiday

Lesson 17 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, March 4th

Plural Words 

1.  years
2.  twins
3.  trays
4.  states
5.  ashes
6.  foxes
7.  inches
8.  flies
9.  cities
10.  ponies
11.  bunches
12.  alleys
13.  lunches
14.  cherries
15.  daisies
16.  spoon
17.  clues
18.  shook
19.  heroes
20.  libraries

Lesson 15 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, January 28th.

Diphthongs
(A diphthong is a sound made by combining two vowels, specifically when it starts as one vowel sound and goes to another, like the oy sound in oil.) -vocabulary.com

1. foil
2. point
3. down
4. plow 
5. proud
6. coins
7. enjoy
8. owl
9. round
10. bounce
11. noise
12. joyful
13. crowd
14. couch
15. loudly
16. misprint
17. prepaid
18. discount
19. choice
20. snowplow

Lesson 14 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, January 21st

Prefixes

1. misprint
2. misread
3. mistrust
4. misspell 
5. mistreat
6. precut
7. preview
8. prepaid
9. preplan
10. preheat
11. distrust
12. discount
13. dishonest
14. discover
15. disable
16. stairs
17. rear
18. where
19. prejudge
20. disconnect

Lesson 13 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, January 14, 2022

More r-controlled vowels

1.  careful
2.  stared
3.  shared
4.  pair
5.  stairs
6.  wear
7.  bear
8.  where
9.  there
10.  dear
11.  rear
12.  gear
13.  here
14.  career
15.  peer
16.  shore
17.  carve
18.  storm
19.  square
20.  clearly

Lesson 12 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, January 7th.

More r-controlled vowels

1. sharp
2. yard
3. artist
4. carve
5. porch
6. storm
7. sport
8. story
9. chore
10. shore
11. sore
12. hoard
13. oars
14. pour
15. your 
16. learn
17. word
18. turns
19. orchard
20. ignore

Christmas Spelling List
Test will be on Thursday, December 16, 2021 (instead of Friday) because we have several fun events happening on Friday.

Lesson 11 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, December 10th

r-controlled vowels

1. whirl
2. third
3. girls
4. firm
5. fern
6. herds
7. stern
8. serve
9. hurt
10. nurse
11. turns
12. learn
13. pearl
14. word
15. world 
16. stretch
17. thick
18. whales
19. perfect
20. Thursday

Lesson 10 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, December 3rd.

Digraphs

1. chick
2. teacher
3. cheese
4. truth
5. fish
6. much
7. lunch
8. stretch
9. pathway
10. whales
11. pitch
12. hatch
13. thick
14. them
15. what 
16. spray
17. streak
18. thread
19. sandwich
20. weather

Lesson 9 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, November 19th.

3 Letter Blends

1.  scrubs
2.  screams
3.  scratch
4.  scrape
5.  screen
6.  spread
7.  splash
8.  spray
9.  streak
10.  strength
11.  strong
12.  squeak
13.  three
14.  throw
15.  thread 
16.  wrote
17.  knife
18.  sign
19.  streamer
20.  scribble

Lesson 8 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, November 12th

Silent letters

1.  wrap
2.  wrists
3.  wrote
4.  wreck
5.  wring
6.  write
7.  wreath
8.  knit
9.  knife
10.  knight
11.  knock
12.  knee
13.  gnome
14.  sign
15.  gnaws
16.  heel
17.  weak
18.  field
19.  wristwatch
20.  knapsack

Lesson 7 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, November 5th

Long e

1. heel
2. week
3. creek
4. free
5. green
6. street
7. freeze
8. seal
9. weak
10. bean
11. speaks
12. team
13. clean
14. cream
15. field
16. tight
17. tied
18. cute
19. sixteen
20. peanut

Lesson 6 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, October 28th.

Long i and u

1. sky
2. fry
3. pie
4. tied
5. tight
6. right
7. bright
8. grind
9. child
10. cube
11. cute
12. mule
13. music
14. drew
15. few
16. coast
17. scold
18. bone
19. mighty
20. Utah

Halloween Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, October 22nd.

Halloween Words

1. flashlight
2. haunted
3. Halloween
4. witch
5. which
6. mask
7. costume
8. spooky
9. spider
10. scary
11. decorate
12. broom
13. monster
14. ghost
15. pumpkin
16. skeleton
17. midnight
18. treat
19. trick
20. orange

Lesson 5 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, October 15th.

Long o 

1. coast
2. coal
3. sold
4. broke
5. slow
6. float
7. soak
8. scold
9. note
10. show
11. toad
12. gold
13. slope
14. bone
15. foe
16. snail
17. same
18. weigh 
19. bowl
20. program

Lesson 4 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, October 8th.
Long a

1. plain
2. braid
3. fail
4. grain
5. snail
6. paint
7. sway
8. tray
9. gray
10. stay
11. state
12. fake
13. same
14. weigh
15. they
16. fine
17. skate
18. globe
19. sleigh
20. afraid