3rd Grade Spelling Words 2024-2025 School Year Assignments

Lesson 23 was our last lesson for a spelling test. We'll still be working with spelling in other ELA subjects though. :)

Lesson 23 Spelling Words:  Closed Syllables vc/cv
Test will be on Friday, May 30, 2025
 
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 Thursday, May 22nd since there is no school on Friday, May 23rd. 
 
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, May 16, 2025.

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, May 9, 2025

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, May 2nd

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

There will not be a spelling test during the week of April 14-18, 2025 because of the shortened week.

Lesson 18 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, April 11, 2025

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 28th

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 21st.

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 shortened week and the field trip on Tuesday, there will not be a Spelling Test this week. 

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!

Lesson 15 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, February 28, 2025.

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

There will not be a spelling test this week because of the shortened week and the Jog-a-thon on Friday. 

Valentine Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, February 14, 2025

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 7, 2025

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 31, 2025

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
(We are skipping Lesson 11 and jumping into Lesson 12...both are about r-controlled vowels anyway).
Test will be on Friday, January 24th.

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

There will not be a spelling test this week since it is a JELLO week with all of the Christmas activities happening throughout the week. 

Lesson 9 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, December 6th.

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

Christmas Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, December 13, 2024

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

No Spelling Test for the Week of November 18-22, 2024...November 22nd is the End of the 1st Trimester.

Thanksgiving Spelling Word List

Lesson 8 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, November 8, 2024

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 1st.

Halloween Spelling List
Test will be on Friday, October 25th

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 6 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, October 17, 2024

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

Lesson 5 Spelling Words
Test will be on Friday, October 11th.

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 4th.
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 27th 
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 20, 2024
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 13, 2024

1.  pencil
2.  crayon
3.  color
4.  paper
5.  school
6.  marker
7.  eraser
8.  folder
9.  book
10.  planner
11.  read
12.  write
13.  desk
14.  glue
15.  recess
16.  smart
17.  think
18.  scissors
19.  question
20.  pen

Lesson 1 Spelling Words