3rd Grade Master Spelling List

Week 1 Week 3 Week 5 Week 7

Sight words, short a/e words, Sight words, long a/e words, Sight words,blends st/str, Sight words, gh/ph words,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary

1. high 1. last 1. light 1. along

2. every 2. school 2. thought 2. might
3. near 3. father 3. head 3. close
4. add 4. keep 4. under 4. something
5. food 5. tree 5. story 5. seem
6. best 6. grade 6. burst 6. laugh
7. next 7. reach 7. strip 7. rough
8. else 8. raise 8. just 8. enough
9. checked 9. theme 9. street 9. graph
10. grand 10. scream 10. distance 10. sphere
11. stand 11. easy 11. least 11. photograph
12. energy 12. batteries 12. evaporate 12. particle
13. matter 13. fuel 13. melt 13. atom
14. forms 14. machine 14. object 14. element
15. value 15. solve 15. sum 15. property
16. notation 16. evaluate 16. difference 16. decimal

Week 2 Week 4 Week 6 Week 8

Sight words,short i.o/u words, Sight words, long i/o words, Sight words, kn/wr words, Sight words, ch/tch words,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary

1. between 1. never 1. saw 1. next

2. own 2. start 2. left 2. hard
3. below 3. city 3. don’t 3. open
4. country 4. earth 4. few 4. example
5. plant 5. eyes 5. while 5. begin
6. slip 6. stone 6. known 6. chance
7. lunch 7. follow 7. write 7. match
8. pond 8. broke 8. knock 8. watch
9. from 9. flight 9. wrong 9. batch
10. thump 10. show 10. knot 10. chew
11. inch 11. whole 11. wrinkle 11. speech
12. convert 12. waves 12. solid 12. source
13. stored 13. current 13. liquid 13. direction
14. motion 14. electric 14. gas 14. travel
15. expanded 15. digit 15. product 15. model
16. calculate 16. round 16. quotient 16. demonstrate

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 3rd Grade Master Spelling List
Week 9 Week 11 Week 13 Week 15
Sight words, sh words, Sight words, j sound of g, Sight words, ou sound, Sight words, long & short oo,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
1. life 1. important 1. sea 1. hear
2. always 2. until 2. began 2. stop
3. those 3. children 3. grow 3. without
4. both 4. side 4. took 4. second
5. paper 5. feet 5. river 5. late
6. pushed 6. giraffe 6. crown 6. loose
7. sharp 7. huge 7. however 7. choose
8. shock 8. stage 8. around 8. shook
9. crash 9. engine 9. growl 9. understood
10. showed 10. badge 10. fountain 10. balloon
11. shape 11. ginger 11. sound 11. looked
12. shadows 12. ocean 12. organism 12. predictable
13. reflection 13. desert 13. beneficial 13. pattern
14. mirror 14. tundra 14. detrimental 14. season
15. fraction 15. equation 15. multiplication 15. pentagon
16. determine 16. operation 16. division 16. hexagon

Week 10 Week 12 Week 14 Week 16

Sight words, s sound of c, Sight words, oi sound, Sight words, short aw sound, Sight words, r-controlled,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
1. together 1. car 1. four 1. miss
2. got 2. mile 2. carry 2. idea
3. group 3. night 3. state 3. enough
4. often 4. walk 4. once 4. eat
5. run 5. white 5. book 5. face
6. space 6. choice 6. crawl 6. started
7. fence 7. voice 7. laundry 7. star
8. price 8. royal 8. author 8. carpet
9. office 9. annoy 9. taught 9. barber
10. police 10. noise 10. pause 10. party
11. pencil 11. destroy 11. dawn 11. pardon
12. adapt 12. forest 12. extinct 12. lunar
13. survive 13. grassland 13. resemble 13. cycle
14. behavior 14. wetland 14. disappear 14. appearance
15. whole 15. function 15. polygon 15. octagon
16. part 16. relationship 16. integer 16. classify

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 3rd Grade Master Spelling List
Week 17 Week 19 Week 21 Week 23
Sight words, air sound, Sight words, homophones, Words with ur sound, and Words with er and est, and
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary academic vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. watch 1. cut 1. perfect 1. slowest
2. far 2. young 2. curled 2. strangest
3. Indian 3. talk 3. church 3. bigger
4. real 4. soon 4. firm 4. better
5. almost 5. list 5. skirt 5. highest
6. stairs 6. here 6. clerk 6. tallest
7. glare 7. hear 7. shirt 7. richest
8. airplane 8. bare 8. person 8. smarter
9. compare 9. bear 9. term 9. louder
10. repair 10. way 10. jerked 10. hotter
11. prepare 11. weigh 11. burned 11. shortest
12. attributes 12. telescope 12. conduct 12. describe
13. quadrilateral 13. magnify 13. experiment 13. data
14. equilateral 14. planet 14. observation 14. analyze
15. isosceles 15. pyramid 15. prism 15. unlikely
16. scalene 16. cone 16. cylinder 16. improbable

Week 18 Week 20 Week 22 Week 24

Sight words, or sound, Sight words, homophones, Double consonant words, Compound words, and
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. let 1. song 1. hugged 1. notebook
2. above 2. being 2. correct 2. sunset
3. girl 3. leave 3. matter 3. bookcase
4. sometimes 4. family 4. letter 4. farmyard
5. mountains 5. it’s 5. puppy 5. everyone
6. worn 6. flower 6. common 6. football
7. fourth 7. flour 7. collect 7. sunshine
8. war 8. our 8. bottles 8. rainbow
9. horse 9. hour 9. different 9. baseball
10. morning 10. hair 10. lesson 10. hallway
11. poured 11. hare 11. error 11. outdoors
12. geometric 12. moon 12. evidence 12. measurement
13. angles 13. orbit 13. conclusion 13. numerical
14. acute 14. position 14. opinion 14. outcome
15. obtuse 15. sphere 15. certain 15. future
16. right 16. cube 16. likely 16. forecast

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 3rd Grade Master Spelling List
Week 25 Week 27 Week 29 Week 31
VCCV pattern words, Words with suffix –ed/-ing, Words with suffix –ful/-fully, Words with suffix –able/-ably,
and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
1. winter 1. liked 1. beautiful 1. comfortable
2. cactus 2. worried 2. cheerful 2. comfortably
3. cellar 3. rolling 3. harmful 3. erasable
4. garden 4. singing 4. playful 4. changeable
5. market 5. swimming 5. useful 5. uncomfortable
6. basket 6. settled 6. carefully 6. laughable
7. welcome 7. talked 7. thankfully 7. irritably
8. until 8. hurried 8. joyfully 8. likable
9. always 9. buying 9. harmfully 9. capable
10. cowboy 10. trying 10. painfully 10. disposable
11. lasso 11. leaving 11. stressful 11. reusable
12. logical 12. regional 12. feature 12. economy
13. continuity 13. national 13. environment 13. government
14. change 14. traditional 14. location 14. tribal
15. estimation 15. chart 15. advantage 15. derive
16. reasonable 16. symbol 16. disadvantage 16. generalize

Week 26 Week 28 Week 30 Week 32

VCV words, and academic Words with suffix –tion/-sion, Words with suffix –ly/-ally, Y to i change words,
vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
1. cabin 1. permission 1. lonely 1. penny
2. future 2. confession 2. suddenly 2. pennies
3. music 3. vision 3. outrageously 3. empty
4. tiger 4. motion 4. specifically 4. emptied
5. behind 5. action 5. especially 5. parties
6. rewind 6. quotation 6. terrifically 6. families
7. focus 7. confusion 7. rapidly 7. mystery
8. belong 8. nation 8. dangerously 8. mysteries
9. family 9. combination 9. tenderly 9. discovery
10. begin 10. question 10. lovely 10. married
11. motel 11. attention 11. precisely 11. carried
12. connection 12. geography 12. identity 12. religion
13. local 13. physical 13. culture 13. folklore
14. strategy 14. photograph 14. society 14. custom
15. complex 15. exact 15. accurate 15. syllable
16. diagram 16. approximate 16. precise 16. fluently

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 3rd Grade Master Spelling List
Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36
Contraction words, and Contraction words, and Final -er words, and Final –le/-al words, and
academic vocabulary academic vocabulary academic vocabulary academic vocabulary
1. he’s 1. we’ll 1. under 1. total
2. she’s 2. I’ll 2. over 2. central
3. it’s 3. he’ll 3. never 3. final
4. isn’t 4. she’ll 4. water 4. simple
5. you’re 5. you’ll 5. center 5. chuckle
6. we’re 6. they’ll 6. border 6. giggle
7. they’re 7. you’ve 7. fever 7. middle
8. there’s 8. they’ve 8. number 8. signal
9. haven’t 9. I’ve 9. whether 9. handle
10. won’t 10. I’d 10. tower 10. candle
11. don’t 11. we’d 11. shower 11. people
12. climate 12. federal 12. sequence 12. infer
13. natural 13. state 13. explorer 13. prior
14. tools 14. interaction 14. established 14. knowledge
15. comprehension 15. law 15. independence 15. modify
16. essential 16. consequences 16. constitution 16. clarify

rd Grade Spelling Activities

Monday: Write each spelling word three times.

Tuesday: Write your spelling words in alphabetical order.

Wednesday: Choose two of your spelling words.

Write a sentence using each of them.

Thursday: Take a practice test. Ask an adult to read your words to

you so you can write them without looking at the list.

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