The Third Grade Team

The Third Grade Team

Weekly Spelling List

End of Year Spelling Test
Friday, May 18th

baking
running
through
chain
catch
scream
badge
either
touch
biggest
wouldn’t
could
because
writing
playground
pancake
birthday
disagree
napkin

bubble


Spelling list for the week of May 7th
(change -y to -i and add –es, -ed, -est, or –er)

For the spelling quiz Friday, students must be able to change the –y to –i and add the given ending


family
fly
cherry
pony
party
supply
study
city
lucky
fry
lazy
happy
bully
army
reply
try
baby
daisy
carry

marry




Spelling list for the week of April 30th
(Review -tch, -dge, scr-, content)


hatch
scratch
scrape
scramble
witch
kitchen
sketch
scroll
scrub
screw
fridge
judge
pledge
adapt
persuade
symbol
bridge
badger
system

grid



Spelling list for the week of April 23rd
(Review ow, ou, content)

account
compound
ground
shower
flower
vowel
fountain
crown
around
persuade
clown
found
mouth
compass
scale
legend
amount
bounce
function

structure



Spelling list for the week of April 16th
(Review ir, er, ur, content)

third
first
blurt
purse
shirt
skirt
after
surprise
turnip
burst
butter
dinner
perfect
north
south
east
number
serve
direction

cardinal




Spelling list for the week of April 9th
(5th Six Weeks Review)

swimming
biggest
magnet
basket
rubbed
underground
sometimes
music
waffle
fraction
flashlight
strawberry
anything
erosion
bubble
nutrition
crosswalk
watermelon
sunflower

ribbon







Spelling list for the week of April 2nd

(Final Stable syllable)

pickle
global
bubble
turtle
level
action
jungle
puzzle
waffle
addition
table
fraction
apple
mansion
nutrition
candle
erosion
castle
motion

people



Spelling list for the week of March 26th
(Closed CVC, Open CV syllables, content words)

napkin
rabbit
pilot
woman
magnet
mitten
ribbon
never
robin
fever
tunnel
fabric
music
economy
business
competition
robot
basket
production
price

Spelling list for the week of March 19th
(compound words, content words)

strawberry
pancake
anything
headphone
moonlight
popcorn
wheelchair
chain
graph
supply
watermelon
horseshoe
crosswalk
demand
dime
penny
tablespoon
somebody
perimeter
compound

Spelling list for the week of March 5th
(compound words, content words)

everywhere
hallway
flashlight
textbook
underground
playground
candlestick
profit
service
scarcity
mailbox
footprint
toothpaste
drought
perish
nickel
sometimes
bookcase
quarter
thrive


Spelling list for the week of February 26th
(drop final –e to add ending)

Students must be able to spell words by dropping the final –e and adding endings such as, -ing, -ed, 
-able

come
use
 hope
wave
have
love
write
chase
live
draw
change
joke
save
excite
scare

care
believe
smile
race
judge



Spelling list for the week of February 20th
(double consonant, content words)

running
clapped
biggest
hotter
hitting
rubbed
sitting
jogging
dripping
saddest
stopped
swimming
shopping
planned
spend
earn
save
winner
invest
donate



Spelling list for the week of February 12th
(homophones, review)

weak
week
here
hear
bought
touch
close
new
knew
plane
clothes
brake
break
plain
toe
tow
for
four
no

know

Spelling list for the week of February 5th

(homophones, content words)

bored
board
buy
by
whole
hole
flour
flower
one
won
peace
piece
where
wear
triangle
polygon
square
decade
century
rhombus




Spelling list for the week of January 29th 
(homophones, content words)

bear
bare
sun
son
blue
blew
write
right
ate 
eight
weak
week 
rode
road
cycle
future
adapt
star
water
timeline


Spelling list for the week of January 22nd
(abstract vowels, content words)

could
would
touch
bought
should
through
down
choice
brought
clock
weather
observe
pollution
launch
loyal
annoy
time
cube
face
edge



Spelling list for the week of January 16th
(vowel digraphs)

reason
between
known
either
brown
mouth
pillow
valley
argue

afraid



Spelling list for the week of January 9th


(vowel digraphs)



daisy
chain
beach
cheap
coast
peace
snail
Monday
raise

speak 



No Spelling the week of December 18th

Spelling list for the week of December 11th


(review,  content words)



doesn’t
bought
town
would

touch
couldn’t
through
shout
didn’t
wouldn’t
aren’t
about
melt
resource
landslide
conserve
drama
poetry
fiction
weathering




Spelling list for the week of December 4th
(prefixes: dis-, in-, pre-, non-, content words)

dislike
disagree
discover
inactive
inexpensive
distrust
predict
nonfiction
nonliving
preview
nonsense
prepaid
decompose
expansion
creation
narrative
equivalent
function
earthquake

volcano

Spelling list for the week of November 27th
(-r controlled vowels ar, or, ir, er, ur, content word, commonly misspelled)
  1. first

  2. serve

  3. bird

  4. circle

  5. marble

  6. world

  7. birthday

  8. storm

  9. turkey

  10. germ

  11. heart

  12. scarf

  13. curtain

  14. porch

  15. girl

  16. carve

  17. contraction

  18. soil

  19. simile

  20. they
Spelling list for the week of November 13th
(abstract vowels –au, -aw, content words)



pause
draw
straw
haul
taught
crawl
yawn
because
fault
lawn
sauce
cause
August
poetry
metaphor
pronoun
gravity
drama
stanza

plot



Spelling list for the week of November 6th
(abstract vowels –ou, -ow)


could
owl
would
touch
bought
town
about
amount
shout
through
crowd
gown
drama
divide
partial
said
their
every
share

round


Spelling list for the week of October 23rd
(contractions)

I’ve
hasn’t
shouldn’t
wouldn’t
you’re
couldn’t
we’ll
aren’t
doesn’t

they’re



Spelling list for the week of October 16th
(complex consonants: scr-, -dge, -tch, content words)

scream
screen
scrub
batch
itch
fudge
bridge
scratch
catch
scrape
edge
badge
from
factor
product
light
feature
caption
cause

effect



Spelling list for the week of October 10th
(doubling consonant to add ending, content words, commonly misspelled)



running
dropping
wrapping
stopped
grabbing
spinning
digging
shopping
hugging
tripped
idea
voting
governor
mayor
mechanical
multiplication
vibration
thermal
when

again



Spelling List for the week of October 2nd

using
baking
making
asked
adorable
writing
damaged
amazed
dissolvable
valuable
special
detail
knew
they
government
branches
adjective
comma
array
energy