Grade 3 Spelling Lists

1 Short a and i / 2 Short u and o / 3 Short e and review of short vowels
fix / upon / eggs
flag / cut / rabbit
glad / frog / flatten
map / hop / pets
skip / job / kitten
van / nuts / skin
win / run / sled
land / spot / until
ask / under / men
sick / jumps / them
Outlaw Words / subtract / Outlaw Words
have / Outlaw Word / come
give / was / live
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
dazzle / awful * / elephant
important * / enough * / meant
whisper / spotless / leopard *
Alternates / Alternates / Alternates
access trapped / knobs hulled / shepherd * equine
staffroom taxicab / broccoli summary / establish exited
quizzes plaid / stopped stuffed / bread sledding
illness laugh / crossing upturned / leisure heifer
nickel * / hovel * tongue / dreadful trekked
skiff / boxing troubling / umbrella eggless
important / doll-like / belligerent
information / unexpected
4 Double f, l, s / 5 Final blends and words with -ng / 6 Long vowels
(silent e)
class / songs / suppose
dress / swing / fire
fell / something / save
grass / strong / invite
smell / belong / grade
stiff / kept / slide
well / drink / broke
dollars / nest / use
Outlaw Words / pond / hole
know / spend / Outlaw Words
wants / Outlaw Words / whole
only / of / people
very / off / someone
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
scuffle / wrongdoing / undecided
allow * / mustard / mistake
success / yourself / describes *
Alternates / Alternates / Alternates
collected / jingle / welcome wove
excellent * / hanger / bravest slope
lesson / longest / strike close
downfall / hunger / lemonade wrote
classmate chilly / bringing / theme plume
sniffed muffler / hungry / scene huge
every buffalo / twists / complete
chilly grasshopper / erupting / grime
messed fussed / expect / energize
bossed messy / stamps / style

Spelling 7 Review of 1-6

flag
fix
win
map
skip
van
glad
land
ask
sick
have
give / upon
cut
frog
hop
job
nuts
run
spot
under
jumps
subtract
was / eggs
rabbit
flatten
kitten
pets
skin
sled
until
men
them
come
live / class
dress
fell
grass
smell
stiff
well
dollars
know
wants
only
very / songs
swing
something
strong
belong
kept
drink
nest
pond
spend
of
off / suppose
fire
save
invite
grade
slide
broke
use
hole
whole
people
someone

important awful enough leopard allow

describes nickel hovel shepherd excellent

8 Long vowels / 9 ck, k
beginner / chicken
dry / quick
fly / unlock
going / pockets
using / pink
she / drank
untie / snake
before / smoke
because / hockey
climb / Outlaw Words
Outlaw Words / from
do / who
don't / those
Challenge Words / Challenge Words
usual * / backwards *
ocean * / thumbtack*
dependable / silkworm
Alternates / Alternates
dried / locker
obituary / jacket
phase ogle gnu / kickball
stamen bagel / jacket
Olympics ozone / package
scene lucid / unluckiness
complete unique / pickles
grimy future / necklace
knife / snack
bygone / struck
10 Sh, ch and compound words / 11 Th, wh / 12 -ed, -ing
brush / when / helped
dishpan / whale / jumped
much / white / asked
chop / why / climbed
children / thankful / wanted
shine / thick / growing
shell / thin / reading
splash / think / spelling
Outlaw Words / without / looking
wash / Outlaw Words / fishing
sure / what / Outlaw Words
goes / other / said
does / another / fell
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
flashlight / whiskers * / tricking
toolshed / whimper / stamped
hairbrush / otherwise / nothing
Alternates / Alternates / Alternates
sandwich * / thinnest / caught *
dishwasher / wheat / brought *
shipwreck * / arithmetic / fought
treasure* / ninth / daughter
freshest / thickness / sought
selfish / bathtub / bought
finished / sixth
chopsticks kitchen / thrilling
scratch champion / whisper
chipmunk inchworm
13 Doubling before –ed, -ing and
–y or –e plus -ing
batting
dropped
planned
stopped
crying
cried
carrying
carried
worrying
worried
shining
diving
Challenge Words
exploring *
including
upsetting
Alternates
vying
sighing
sighted
trying
petrified
scurried squelched
trampled belched

14 Review of 8–13

beginner
dry
fly
going
using
she
untie
before
because
climb
do
don't / chicken
quick
unlock
pockets
pink
drank
snake
smoke
hockey
from
who
those / brush
dishpan
much
chop
children
shine
shell
splash
wash
sure
goes
does / when
whale
white
why
thankful
thick
thin
think
without
what
other
another / helped
jumped
asked
climbed
wanted
growing
reading
spelling
looking
fishing
said
fell / batting
dropped
planned
stopped
crying
cried
carrying
carried
worrying
worried
shining
diving

usual thumbtack shipwreck whiskers caught

brought sandwich exploring backwards ocean

15 Contractions
doesn't
I'd
they're
couldn't
wouldn't
I'll
can't
we're
that's
Outlaw Words
their
where
were
Challenge Words
friendship
colour
you're compare "your"
Alternates
aren’t *
haven’t
weren’t
humungous *
16 Soft c / 17 Long e (ee) / 18 Long e (ea)
race / feet / mean
circus / street / clean
dance / asleep / near
icy / teeth / reach
nicest / wheel / beneath
replaced / feed / treat
since / queen / easy
spaceship / sweep / heated
pencil / three / beast
fence / week / Outlaw Words
Outlaw Words / been / wear
once / Outlaw Words / break
special / your / great
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
especially * / chieftain / appearance
exercise / received * / pleasant
cities / fields / repeatedly
Alternates / Alternates / Alternates
spiciest recipe / between / eagerness
centre juice / cheerful / screamed *
laciest accuracy * / freedom / fearlessly
bicycling circulation / greedy / reason
exciting / speeding / stealing
recess / committee / bleachers
sentence * / pioneers * / beaver
celebrity / sweepstakes / teasingly
bounce / cheetah
chimpanzee
19 Long a (ay, ai) / 20 Long i (i, igh, y) and long o (o)
maybe / inside
stay / times
Saturday / tired
afraid / butterfly
holiday / spying
always / most
rainy / roll
chair / sold
Outlaw Words / Outlaw Words
again / light
against / tonight
there / frighten
they / tomorrow
Challenge Words / Challenge Words
explained * / multiplication
yesterday / rollerskate
sailboats / tightened *
Alternates / Alternates
praise sailor / brightest
raisins entertain / highway
plainest sprayed / lightning
prepaid / locomotive
waist / midnight
mislaid / headlights
delayed / rightful
restraint / satisfy
failure / multiply
acquaintance / aroma

21 Review of 15-20

doesn't
I'd
they're
couldn't
wouldn't
I'll
can't
we're
that's
their
where
were / race
circus
dance
icy
nicest
replaced
since
spaceship
pencil
fence
once
special / feet
street
asleep
teeth
wheel
feed
queen
sweep
three
week
been
your / mean
clean
near
reach
beneath
treat
easy
heated
beast
wear
break
great / maybe
stay
Saturday
afraid
holiday
always
rainy
chair
again
against
there
they / inside
times
tired
butterfly
spying
most
roll
sold
light
tonight
frighten
tomorrow

aren’t especially humungous accuracy sentence

received pioneers screamed explained tightened

22 Hyphens and possessives / 23 ô / 24 -oa and -ow
good-bye / almost / float
merry-go-round / also / loading
mother's / water / toast
friend's / lost / soak
teacher's / saw / slowly
kitten's / small / below
hundred / soft / throw
eight / caught / shadow
second / thought / blowing
million / brought / Outlaw Words
dollars / Outlaw Words / known
guess / talked / one
walks / none
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
wheeler-dealer / awesome / approached
ice-cold / daughter * / overboard
well-mannered * / launch / snowdrift
Alternates / Alternates / Alternates
well-wisher / awkward * / sparrow
well-meaning / broccoli / throaty
well-disposed / taught / loaves
well-founded / qualify / hollow
well-groomed / wander / broadminded *
auburn / sewing
faucet * / pillowed
rocket-launcher
salted chalky
25 -ar and -or / 26 -er, -ir, -ur,
and -ear / 27 Homophones
forget / first / to
morning / girl / too
reported / never / two
shorter / dirty / blue
smartest / third / blew
started / burned / knew
darkness / hurt / new
harmless / return / through
artist / summer / threw
Outlaw Words / Outlaw Words / which
warm / early / Outlaw Words
world / heard / are
floor / learn / our
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
marshmallow / overnight / knot
anchored * / squirted * / heir
forecast / purposefully / coarse
Alternates / Alternates
meteor stories / gerbil
sailor / interrupt *
professor / nervous
scholar / thirtieth *
burglar performed / journey
farther northern / earthquake
barnyard / survival performer
porcupine / dessert
starry sparkle / desert
hornet swarming * / urgent whirled

28 Review of 22-27

good-bye
merry-go-round
mother's
friend's
teacher's
kitten's
hundred
eight
second
million
dollars
guess / almost
also
water
lost
saw
small
soft
caught
thought
brought
talked
walks / float
loading
toast
soak
slowly
below
throw
shadow
blowing
known
one
none / forget
morning
reported
shorter
smartest
started
darkness
harmless
artist
warm
world
floor / first
girl
never
dirty
third
burned
hurt
return
summer
early
heard
learn / to
too
two
blue
blew
knew
new
through
threw
which
our
are

well-mannered daughter awkward broadminded anchored

swarming squirted thirtieth interrupt faucet

29 2 or 3 syllables with –y and adverbs / 30 Plurals
candy / babies
finally / boxes
muddy / bushes
noisy / chimneys
suddenly / glasses
family / matches
pony / rivers
silly / windows
Outlaw Words / wishes
money / cherries
pretty / Outlaw Words
anybody / eyes
anything / shoes
Challenge Words / Challenge Words
certainly / countries *
unhappily / dwarves
officially / scratches
Alternates
memory
mystery
slippery
galaxy
astronomy
territories
petrified
batteries
grocery smoothly
quickly
31 -oo and -ew / 32 -ou and -ow / 33 Another -ea
afternoon / about / steady
tooth / ground / thread
school / ourselves / ahead
cookies / around / spread
crooked / shouted / bread
understood / loudest / dead
grew / growl / healthy
newspaper / flower / heavy
chewy / crown / instead
Outlaw Words / Outlaw Words / Outlaw Words
unhook / could / beautiful
woods / would / everywhere
cooked / should / everyone
Challenge Words / Challenge Words / Challenge Words
unscrewed / downstairs / featherbrain
brooch / doubts / sweater or leapt
loosening * / mountainous * / weatherproof
Alternates / Alternates / Alternates
throughout / crowded / leather
bamboo / powerful / sweater
bouquet * / towels / heavenly
amount / healthful
scoundrel * / steadiness *
pronounce * / homestead
blouse
34 -le
uncle
pickles
bubbles
middle
little
gently
puddle
wrinkles
bottle
Outlaw Words
squirrel
nickel
travel
Challenge Words
rattlesnake
wrestlers *
battleship
counsellors
Alternates
bugle jungle sprinkled maple nibbling
whistling dangled
glistening *
arrival
scuffle
grappled
prickle
knuckles
castle *
noodles

35 Review of 29-34

candy
finally
muddy
noisy
suddenly
family
pony
silly
money
pretty
anybody
anything / babies
boxes
bushes
chimneys
glasses
matches
rivers
windows
wishes
cherries
eyes
shoes / afternoon
tooth
school
cookies
crooked
understood
grew
newspaper
chewy
unhook
woods
cooked / about
ground
ourselves
around
shouted
town
growl
flower
crown
could
would
should / steady
thread
ahead
spread
bread
dead
healthy
heavy
instead
beautiful
everywhere
everyone / uncle
pickles
bubbles
middle
little
gently
puddle
wrinkles
bottle
squirrel
nickel
travel

countries loosening bouquet mountainous scoundrel

pronounce steadiness wrestlers glistening castle