Third Grade Spelling List

Mrs. Sanford’s Room

Words marked with an * are vocabulary words from the story we are reading.  Both first and second semester lists are included here. Scroll down to find the list you need.  Pre-tests are given on Mondays, and a study list will come home that day in your child’s back pack. Practice tests are given on Thursdays and final tests are given on Fridays.

Changing Patterns – Semester 1

Theme 1 “Something Special”

Lesson 1: words with short a and short e sounds

Basic List: sat, felt, last, send, next, best, went, hand, stand, past, grand, stamp, belt, lend, checked

Challenge: else, guest, attention*, heard, listen

Lesson 2: words with short i, o, and u

Basic List: slip*, fish, rocks, lunch*, gift, thing, inch, truck, pond, from, jump, socks, dish, thump

Challenge List: frown*, expression, surprised, emotion, smirk

Lesson 3: words with long a and long e

Basic List: easy*, grade, meet*, late* seat*, saved*, pail, these, reach, name*, leave* theme, scream

Challenge List: mystery*, solve*, search, found* investigate

Lesson 4: words with long i and long o

Basic List: tight, while*, show*, stone, bright, whole, window, time, follow, close, flight, tide, grow, broke, below

Challenge List: basketball*, coach, forward, dribble, guard

Lesson 5: consonant blends with st and str

Basic List: least, fast, just, burst, strip, stick, strike, artist, almost, student, strong*, start*, blast*, straw, street

Challenge List: events, competition, stroke*, teammate, distance

Theme 2 “What a Team!”

Lesson 6: words with kn, wr, gh, and ph

Basic List:  known, written, laugh, sphere, wreck, writer, wrong, wrap, wrench, knocked, knot, wring, enough, rough*, wrinkle

Challenge List: tortoise, dolphin*, sea horse*, whale*, coral

Lesson 7: words with sh, ch, and tch

Basic List: shot, chance, match, watch, showed, shock, pushed, such, crash, chew, batch, hitched*, sharp*, mush* speech

Challenge List: medicine*, equipment, crutch, nurse, hospital

Lesson 8: words with /s/ and /j/ sounds – soft c and g

Basic List: space, stage, huge*, fence, price, police, office, engine, badge, pencil, excite, force, range, ginger, giraffe

Challenge List: creature*, strange*, scaly*, peculiar, unusual

Lesson 9: words with /oi/ sound

Basic List: joyful, choice, voice, joint, moist, spoil, royal, annoy, noise*, employ, soil, loyal, boiled, destroy, pointy

Challenge List: earthquake*, volcano*, hurricane, weather, rumble

Lesson 10: words with /ou/ sound

Basic List: crown, proud*, however, count, crowded, around, south, loud, house, shouted, howl, growl, bounce, fountain, sound

Challenge List: special*, trust*, companion, trained*, behave

Theme 3 “Friends to Grow With”

Lesson 11: possessive and plural nouns

Basic List: brother’s, brothers, uncle’s, uncles, sister’s, sisters, sisters’, man’s, men’s, child’s, girls, girl’s, girls’, mine*, yours

Challenge List: tease*, friendship, polite, wiggle, nuisance

Lesson 12: words with /aw/ sound

Basic List: song*, law, because*, soft, dawn, crawl, lost, taught, long, pause, frost, lawn, hawk, laundry, author

Challenge List: sausage*, cafeteria, mustard, tablecloth, service

Lesson 13: words with long /oo/ and short /oo/ sounds

Basic List: boots, grouped, shook, school, looked, hood, choose, brook, zoomed*, balloon, loose, soot, understood, cartoon, afternoon

Challenge List: season*, umpire, diamond, average, pitcher

Lesson 14: words with /ar/ sound

Basic List: started, card, park*, smart, star, shark, mark, barber, party, pardon, bark, tart, carpet, farther, barn

Challenge List: announce, alarm*, complain, excitement, speaker

Lesson 15: words with /air/ sound

Basic List: bear, tear, haircut, stairs, wear, airplane, compare, repair, pear, prepare*, stare, glare, sharing, fairy, aware

Challenge List: steady*, balance, regular, constant, slowpoke*

On Your Mark – Semester 2

Theme 1 “Tell Me a Story”

Tests will be written in cursive for the remainder of the year.

Lesson 16: words with /or/ sound

Basic List: forks*, worn*, form, fourth, war*, storm, horse*, warn, morning, forest, court, porch, poured, port, important

Challenge List: exciting*, trail, defend, marsh, drown

Lesson 17: homophones

Basic List: hear*, one*, won, way*, heard, flower, our, flour, weigh, here*, beat, herd, beet, hair, hare

Challenge List: canyon, bright, shiny, sparkle, horizon

Lesson 18: words with /er/ sound

Basic List: curl, birth, burned, perfect, thirty, church, firm, skirt, clerk, jerked, dirt, shirt, person, purse, term

Challenge List: fault*, wrong, error, trouble, reason

Lesson 19: words with double consonants

Basic List: pulled,*, begged*, hugged*, silly, correct, latter, matter, supper, common, lesson, collect, setting, bottles, different*, jelly

Challenge List: fairy tale, cultural, grandma, courage, weave*

Lesson 20: words with –er and –est

Basic List: faster, wisest*, bigger*, slowest, cooler, hottest, soonest, shorter, kindest, louder, slimmer, wildest, tamer, whitest, strangest

Challenge List: characters*, actor, director, stagehand, orchestra

Theme 2 “Good Neighbors”

Lesson 21: compound words

Basic List: sometimes*, pickup*, dishwater*, notebook, upstairs, football, sunshine, outdoors, hallway, timeout, doorway, sunset, bookcase, everyone*, everything*

Challenge List: cornfields*, serious, bargain, astonish, debt

Lesson 22: VCCV pattern words

Basic List: cowboy*, horses*, corral*, winter, always, cactus, garden, tender, fifteen*, basket, welcome, lasso* market*, until, Monday

Challenge List: pillows*, curtain, feather, mattress, bedspread

Lesson 23: VCV pattern words

Basic List; belong, hotel*, focus, miner*, pupil, begin, music, future, behind, tiger, become, motel, baker*, cabin*, ocean

Challenge List: delicious*, filling*, pastries, tasty, crumbs

Lesson 24: words that end with –ed and –ing

Basic List: blooming*, settled*, stamping*, leaving, liked, taking, getting, filled, swimming, rolled, hoping, used, hurrying, buying, worried

Challenge List: chocolate*, tropical, freezing*, iceberg, island

Lesson 25: words ending with –tion and –sion

Basic List: combination, action, vision, motion, section, nation, permission, confusion, question, attention, vacation, production, quotation, tension, sensation

Challenge Words: expensive*, customer, exchange, thrifty, afford

Theme 3 “Celebrate Our World”

Lesson 26: words with suffixes –er, -ful, -ly, and –able

Basic List: farmer, useful, softly*, suitable, lonely*, quietly*, teacher, thankful, exactly*, readable, nicer, safer, harmful, playful, suddenly

Challenge List: breathing*, pleasant, beautiful, float, gentle

Lesson 27: words needing to change y to I before adding es

Basic List: pennies, buried, replied, candies, emptied, stories, married, copies, parties, studied, mysteries, discoveries, worries, families, ponies

Challenge List: adobe*, marble, brick, building, material

Lesson 28: contractions

Basic List: it’s*, isn’t*, you’ve, we’d, didn’t, she’s, we’ve, haven’t, he’d, they’d, there’s*, don’t, we’ll, won’t, he’s

Challenge List: temperature*, depth, width, weight*, height

Lesson 29: words that end like ever

Basic List: water, over*, never, under, river, number, wonder*, tower*, rather*, finger, center, prefer, better*, border*, fever

Challenge List: mirth*, laughter, chuckle, humor, giggle

Lesson 30: words ending with –le or –al

Basic List: simple, total, apple, title, central, purple, signal, normal, middle, able, terrible*, people, medal, handle, single,

Challenge List: explore*, discovery, astronaut, visible, scientist