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There will not be any more spelling tests for 3rd grade for the 2018-2019 school year!  :)

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Lesson 29 Spelling Words:  R-Controlled Vowel Syllables
Test will be on Thursday, June 6th
 
1.  severe
2.  prepared
3.  declare
4.  later
5.  writer
6.  cellar
7.  trailer
8.  author
9.  purpose
10.  circus
11.  garlic
12.  partner
13.  restore
14.  sister
15.  actor
16.  explained
17.  brief
18.  enjoys
19.  circular 
20.  editor

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No Spelling Test during the week of May 27-31...due to the shortened week.

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No Spelling Test during the week of May 20-23.  
STAR Testing that week and No School on Friday, May 24th.

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Lesson 28 Spelling Words:  Vowel Team Syllables
Test will be on Thursday, May 16th
 
1.  explained
2.  remain
3.  reading
4.  detail
5.  presoak
6.  monkey
7.  brief
8.  preteen
9.  about
10.  allowing
11.  complain
12.  enjoy
13.  poisons
14.  repeats
15.  unreal
16.  able
17.  castle
18.  towel
19.  repaid
20.  approached

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Lesson 27 Spelling Words:  Consonant + le syllables
Test will be on Thursday, May 9th
 
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

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Lesson 26 Spelling Words:  Prefixes (un, re, pre, dis)
Test will be on Thursday, May 2nd
 
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

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No Spelling Test during the week of April 15-19th.  

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Lesson 25 Spelling Words:  Open Syllables CVC
Test will be on Thursday, April 11th
 
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

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Lesson 24 Spelling Words:  Inflectional Endings (y to i)
Test will be on Thursday, April 4th
 
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

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Lesson 23 Spelling Words:  Closed Syllables vc/cv
Test will be on Thursday, March 28th.
 
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

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Lesson 22 Spelling Words:  Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing, -s
Test will be on Thursday, March 21st.
 
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

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Lesson 21 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, March 14th.
 
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

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Lesson 20 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, March 7th.
 
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

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Lesson 19 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, February 28th.
 
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

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There will not be a spelling test during the week of February 18th.  

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Lesson 18 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, February 14th.
 
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

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Lesson 17 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, February 7th.
 
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

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There will not be a spelling test during the week of January 28th.  
 
Focus will be placed on other tasks such as students' How-to-Story, as well as the Lesson 4 Vocabulary Test.  
 
Lesson 4 Vocabulary words are located on spellingcity.com.

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Lesson 16 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, January 24th.
 
 
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

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Lesson 15 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, January 17th.
 
 
Diphthongs
 
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

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Lesson 14 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, January 10th.
 
Happy New Year!
 
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

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Christmas Spelling List (just for fun...no test will be over these words...they are also located on spellingcity.com)
 
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

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Lesson 13 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, December 13th.
 
**This will be the last spelling list of 2018.  There will not be a spelling test during the week of December 17th.  The next one will resume during the week of January 7, 2019.**
 
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

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Lesson 12 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, December 6th.
 
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

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Lesson 11 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, November 29th.
 
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

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There will not be a spelling test during the week of November 12-16, 2018.  The next spelling list will be after Thanksgiving.  :)

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Lesson 10 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, November 8th.
*This will be the last spelling test of the 1st trimester.*
 
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

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Lesson 9 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, November 1st.
 
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

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Lesson 8 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, October 25th.
 
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

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Lesson 7 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, October 18th.
 
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

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Lesson 6 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, October 11th.
 
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

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There will not be a spelling test during the week of October 1st.
 
Students will be completing the Phonics Unit 1 Test on Friday, October 5th.

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Lesson 5 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, September 27th.
 
Long o 
*correction 
 
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

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Lesson 4 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, September 20th.
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

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Lesson 3 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, September 13th.
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

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Lesson 2 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, September 6th.
Short Vowels e, o, 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

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Lesson 1 Spelling Words
Test will be on Thursday, August 30th.
Short Vowels a, i
 
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