Our list of 200 third grade spelling words will keep your students busy! 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.
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:
3rd Grade Spelling Bee Words - Prepare your child for a spelling bee competition with this word list.
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!
We also recommend this set of over 300 fun online learning games offered by one of our affiliates.
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.
AnyWord Spelling Practice Series Worksheets, games & prompts that work with almost ANY spelling words!
Fun Spelling Worksheets for Grades 1/2 50 All-new reproducible pages for early learners!
New! Mammoth Spelling Bee Word Lists are Ready
Spelling Bee Toolboxes for Grades 3/5 and 6/8 All the resources you need for a successful bee!
Monumental Spelling Bee Lists with definitions, sentences and language of origin
Colossal Spelling Bee Word Lists Definitions, parts of speech & sentences
100 Difficult Spelling Bee Words, Definitions & Sentences Our toughest lists, for upper grades and adults!
Young Spellers Spelling Bee Word List for Gr 1 & 2
The Gigantic Spelling Bee Words & Sentences in 3 volumes
600 Spelling Bee Words & Sentences for Gr 3/5 & 6/8 Extra words & sentences at two levels