3rd Grade Spelling Words 2023-2024 School Year Assignments

Lesson 20 Spelling Words 
Test will be on Friday, April 26, 2024.

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, April 19th 

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, April 12, 2024

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

There will not be a spelling test during the week of March 25-29, 2024 because of the shortened week.

Lesson 17 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, March 22nd

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 16 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, March 15th.

Phonics skills using oo, ew, u_e, ue, u, ui, and ou

1. spoon
2. goose
3. booth
4. gloom
5. rude
6. tube
7. due
8. clues
9. true
10. chew
11. July
12. look
13. shook
14. notebook
15. could
16. coins
17. joyful
18. round
19. classroom
20. childhood

Due to the other tests this week, diorama sharing, and end of the trimester on Friday, there will not be a spelling test this week. Enjoy!

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

Test will be on Friday, March 1st.

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

3rd Grade Sight Words Spelling List

Test will be on Thursday, February 22nd. (Notice that it is a day earlier since the Jog-a-thon is on Friday.) 

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

Lesson 15 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, February 16, 2024.

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

Valentine Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, February 9, 2024

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 14 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, February 2, 2024

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 12 Spelling Words
(We are skipping Lesson 11 and jumping into Lesson 12...both are about r-controlled vowels anyway).
Test will be on Friday, January 19th.

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

Lesson 10 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, January 12th

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

Due to the short and JELLO Christmas week, there will not be a spelling list or test this week. Enjoy! :)

Christmas Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, December 15, 2023

1. elves
2. elf
3. Christmas
4. lights
5. tree
6. Jesus
7. wreath
8. presents
9. sleigh
10. reindeer
11. cookies
12. milk
13. snowman
14. manger
15. mitten
16. angel
17. Mary
18. Joseph
19. camels
20. shepherd

Lesson 9 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, December 8th.

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, December 1, 2023

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

There will not be a spelling test during the week of November 13-17 because of the other quizzes/tests/projects happening at the end of the 1st trimester. Make sure you study hard for those other quizzes and tests. :)

Lesson 7 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, November 9th...a day earlier since there is no school on Friday.

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 Friday, November 3rd.

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 27th

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

Since Wednesday and Thursday are half days and no school on Friday for the Carnival, there will not be a spelling test during the week of October 16-20, 2023. Enjoy!  :)

Lesson 5 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, October 13th.

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 6th.
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

Lesson 3 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, September 29th 
Final e

1.  date
2.  lake
3.  skate
4.  plane
5.  grade
6.  fine
7.  life
8.  rice
9.  wise
10.  smile
11.  rose
12.  globe
13.  smoke
14.  come
15.  used
16.  step
17.  rock
18.  luck
19.  sneeze
20.  stripe

Lesson 2 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, September 22nd
Short Vowels e, o and u

1.  step
2.  mess
3.  head
4.  crops
5.  stop
6.  rock
7.  clock
8.  sock
9.  pond
10.  jumps
11.  shut
12.  luck
13.  slump
14.  bugs
15.  mug
16.  clap
17.  sick
18.  snack
19.  ready
20.  does

Back to School Themed Spelling Words 
Test on Friday, September 15, 2023

Week of September 5-8, 2023
 
1.  clap
2.  camp
3.  hand
4.  stamp
5.  snack
6.  rack
7.  grabs
8.  glad
9.  bill
10.  miss
11.  click
12.  pink
13.  sick
14.  grin
15.  lift
16.  cat
17.  bit
18.  man
19.  anthill
20.  cramp