Third Grade Spelling Words
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
| 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 |
| horse | hurt | I'll | I'm | I've |
| isn't | it's | 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 |
| 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 | we'll |
| Wednesday | whole | window | without | won't |
| wore | wrong | wrote | young | you're |
You may also be interested in these lists:
3rd Grade Vocabulary Words - 200 words to boost your child's spoken and written language skills, arranged alphabetically! Print the complete list from the web page for best results. 100 of the words also appear in an engaging printable, arranged by helpful topics.
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More Third Grade Spelling Resources
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.
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.
Third Grade Worksheets - Give your students practice with important words with our Calendar Clues worksheet, and lots more!
Third graders are ready to work
independently, and will probably enjoy
our Mystery in the Attic
spelling worksheet.
Free
Spelling
Worksheets - Can You Spell Well?:
If students correctly identify the misspelled words, they'll shade the
page to reveal in interesting word.
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!
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! Activities work with lots of words for lots of ages.
Compound Word Wizards - Whole class or large-group activity for practicing compound words.
Double the Fun
- To double or not to double the final consonant when adding a suffix?
Another great game for spelling fun!
Spelling Bee Games - Try one of our new Silent Spelling Bee variations. 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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