3rd Grade Spelling Lists Worksheets
30 printable 3rd Grade phonics worksheets on Spelling Lists. Every sheet has an answer key — 30 in all. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: The Soft C; The Soft G; The -dge Ending; happier, animal, family and grandmother; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 1 to 33 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3. Every grade is on one page: Spelling Worksheets.
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 3, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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All 30 worksheets in this set
- Spelling Study List 1: The Soft C Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 2: The Soft G Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 3: The -dge Ending Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 4: happier, animal, family and grandmother
- Spelling Study List 5: four syllables and accent
- Spelling Study List 6: The -ble Family
- Spelling Study List 7: vacation, addition, caution and emotion
- Spelling Study List 8: permission, discussion, division and decision
- Spelling Study List 9: picture, adventure, furniture and nature
- Spelling Study List 10: report, importance, portable and support
- Spelling Study List 11: interrupted, interruption, disruptive and disruption
- Spelling Study List 12: instruction, destruction, construction and destructive
- Spelling Study List 13: auditorium, audience, audition and visit
- Spelling Study List 14: scripture, describe, descriptive and prescribed
- Spelling Study List 15: geography, geographic, geology and biology
- Spelling Study List 16: The -al Ending
- Spelling Study List 17: Making Words Plural
- Spelling Study List 18: substitute, subjected, subway and submarine
- Spelling Study List 19: promise, protecting, provide and produce
- Spelling Study List 20: extra, exercise, excited and expensive
- Spelling Study List 21: dangerous, delicious, serious and curious
- Spelling Study List 22: celebrate, separate, create and operate
- Spelling Study List 23: identify, simplify, specify and modify
- Spelling Study List 24: organized, memorize, capitalize and realize
- Spelling Study List 25: silence, sentence, importance and distance
- Spelling Study List 26: activity, community, authority and charity
- Spelling Study List 27: The -est Suffix — Superlatives
- Spelling Study List 28: Endings That Change Jobs
- Spelling Study List 29: The -ble Family
- Spelling Study List 30: Suffixes Change Jobs
Teaching Spelling Lists
What it is
These are weekly lists grouped by one pattern each: the ai words one week, the aw words another, and further on, lists built on a single prefix or suffix. Every word on a list is there because it shares a spelling, so the list teaches a pattern rather than a random handful of words. In Grade 3 the lists run to nine words and move to soft c and soft g, the -dge ending, the -ble family and words of three and four syllables.
When a child is ready
A child is ready for a list once the pattern behind it can already be read; spelling a pattern comes after reading it, not before.
If they struggle
If the end-of-week test keeps going badly, shorten the list and study by sound: say the word, count the sounds, write the pattern chunk first, then the rest of the word. Testing two or three words on Tuesday and Thursday finds the errors while there is still time to fix them.
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