Third Grade High Frequency/Sight Word List

(the expectation is that students are able to read these words by the end of the school year)

Word / 1st Quarter / 2nd Quarter / 3rd Quarter / 4th Quarter
1 / again
2 / another
3 / also
4 / always
5 / anyone
6 / aunt
7 / become
8 / better
9 / body
10 / bring
11 / built
12 / buy
13 / carefully
14 / certain
15 / city
16 / clean
17 / close
18 / complete
19 / community
20 / continent
21 / countries
22 / cousin
23 / decide
24 / describe
25 / different
26 / doesn’t
27 / during
28 / enough
29 / especially
30 / everything
31 / everywhere
32 / eye
33 / fast
34 / favorite
35 / field
36 / finally
37 / front
38 / full
39 / getting
40 / goes
Word / 1st Quarter / 2nd Quarter / 3rd Quarter / 4th Quarter
41 / great
42 / group
43 / happy
44 / heard
45 / heart
46 / hold
47 / hole
48 / hour
49 / however
50 / I’m
51 / I’ll
52 / idea
53 / impossible
54 / island
55 / its
56 / journal
57 / kind
58 / learn
59 / let’s
60 / money
61 / morning
62 / move
63 / myself
64 / never
65 / order
66 / own
67 / pair
68 / piece
69 / prettier
70 / probably
71 / pull
72 / question
73 / reached
74 / remember
75 / return
76 / right
77 / root
78 / show
79 / sign
80 / sincerely
81 / something
82 / start
Word / 1st Quarter / 2nd Quarter / 3rd Quarter / 4th Quarter
83 / terrible
84 / their
85 / they’re
86 / though
87 / thought
88 / threw
89 / through
90 / throw
91 / trouble
92 / uncle
93 / upon
94 / usually
95 / vacation
96 / walk
97 / warm
98 / wash
99 / watch
100 / water
101 / wear
102 / we’re
103 / weather
104 / well
105 / whether
106 / while
107 / white
108 / whole
109 / woman
110 / wrote
111 / you’re
112 / yours