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Third Grade Spelling Words

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Our list of 200 third grade spelling words will keep your students on track! Teachers and parents alike can use these words for oral and written practice, for spelling games and worksheets.

This list of 3rd grade spelling words is just a launching point. You'll want to practice other words with similar spelling patterns and word endings.

Note the additional resources below, including spelling worksheets, games, spelling bee word lists, and more. 



List of Third Grade Spelling Words

Printable List of Third Grade Spelling Words  in alphabetical order

Scroll through this list of 200 3rd grade spelling words or skip ahead to more spelling resources for third grade.

Words 1-70

about

across

afraid

afternoon

age

ago

almost

also

anyone

anything

balloon

basket

bean

bear

behind

birthday

blind

body

born

boxes

bread

breakfast

brush

build

buses

butter

carries

caught

change

cheese

cherry

circus

classes

clear

climb

clown

color

coming

crawl

crazy

cries

dinner

doctor

doesn't

dollar

done

driving

early

easy

everyone

everything

eyes

finish

flies

foil

food

forgot

Friday

front

funny

gift

grinned

guess

half

happen

heard

heart

heavy

hello

himself

Words 71-140

horse

hurt

I'll

I'm

isn't

it's

I've

kept

key

knee

knew

know

lamb

laugh

law

leave

left

life

lift

lived

lose

love

mark

match

maybe

meal

meat

meet

merry

Monday

more

morning

mouse

mouth

move

near

never

newspaper

noise

none

once

other

outside

own

paint

park

past

penny

picnic

piece

point

prize

push

queen

quickly

raised

really

riding

river

rode

roll

roses

rule

running

sail

sale

Saturday

school

scratch

scream

Words 141-200

serve

sew

shelf

shiny

shopping

should

sitting

skinned

sky

slept

smiling

soft

someone

something

speak

spread

spring

stairs

stopped

straight

street

stretch

string

strong

suit

summer

Sunday

tenth

that's

thick

threw

throw

Thursday

tiny

today

together

tooth

touch

town

tries

trouble

true

Tuesday

turn

until

used

voice

walk

warm

Wednesday

we'll

whole

window

without

won't

wore

wrong

wrote

young

you're

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More Third Grade Spelling Resources

Seek a Word Puzzle Free -Three Word Search

NEW! Seek-a-Word Puzzles Free for Classroom Fun! This fun-filled shape holds 25 nouns from my list of third grade spelling words. How quickly can your active students find them all? This page works well at home, and with second and fourth graders, too!


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Mystery Words - Students use spelling, phonics and logic skills to uncover two mystery words on this fun worksheet! Careful reading skills are also a must in these Grade 3 worksheets. Kids love solving mysteries, so why not give them some that also build spelling and logic skills?

Third Grade Writing Prompts - Give your students extra literacy practice with my fun grade-level writing prompts. Choose from two sets...or use both! From these springboards, you'll soon be writing more of your own!

writing prompts for 3rd grade

Set #1 - This list of twelve 3rd grade writing prompts include: What's the best way to spend one dollar? Write a short poem about a bear with a pear.  Why are you happy to hear someone's voice at your front door? Whose voice is it? 

Set #2 - These writing prompts for 3rd grade ask:  If you joined the circus, what act would you like to do? Do you like to wear matched socks? Why or why not? Why were you not afraid of the giant who walked into your classroom? Set contains 12 prompts in all. 

boy looking scared

Third graders are ready to work independently, and will probably enjoy our Mystery in the Attic spelling worksheet. Hmmm...what could it be?

Free Spelling Worksheets - Can You Spell Well?: If students correctly identify the misspelled words, they'll shade the page to reveal an interesting word.

calendar

3rd Grade Spelling Bee Words - Prepare your child for a spelling bee competition with this word list. These are a bit more difficult than the third grade spelling words above. Use them as bonus words throughout the year, or post them regularly on the wall/board for kids to see and review.

Third Grade Worksheets - Give your students practice with important words with our Calendar Clues worksheet, and lots more! Fun practice, especially with calendar words and contractions.

AnyWord Spelling Practice eBooks

For more fun spelling practice, try our AnyWord Spelling Practice Series. In these three eBooks, you'll  find word play worksheets, writing prompts and partner games and activities that work with almost any list of spelling words!

third grade girl with laptop

Spelling fun: Puzzlers and brain teasers - Play these on the board with the whole class or use paper and pencil at home for some critical thinking and spelling fun! Flexible activities work with lots of words for lots of ages.


3rd grade girl in outfield

Compound Word Wizards - Whole class  or large-group activity for practicing compound  words. Third graders are ready and eager to read, write and spell all sorts of compound words. This fun activity can be played with a large group of students, or with the entire class. Give it a try!

Double the Fun - To double or not to double the final consonant when adding a suffix? Another great game for spelling fun! 

bee surrounded by letters SPELLING

Spelling Bee Games - Good old-fashioned spelling bee games can provide some fantastic spelling practice! The competitive nature of these games encourages kids to study hard and work together  to produce a winning strategy. Why not try one of our NEW Silent Spelling Bee variations? It's a fun--and quiet--twist on  a classic game!

Another Spelling Bee Game - Students step up to victory as they help their team advance in this fun new game. 

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Author Ann Richmond Fisher

Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.


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