3rd Grade Spelling Unit | Spelling Curriculum | Spelling Lists

Third grade teachers, this one's for you!

Your third graders will love this spelling curriculum!

There are many activities for each week to help students learn and retain the spelling words. Teach them all or pick and choose the ones that will be most helpful.

Activities are perfect for centers, independent work, homework, or classwork.

Each teacher packet includes a cover page with spelling words and the spelling rule or pattern and a call-out page with example sentences.

Each weekly student packet begins with a coversheet and has a pretest, 5 activity pages, and a final test.

Spelling Rules and Patterns In This Unit:

1. Short vowels

2. "Magic E" rule

3. Doubling the final consonants when adding a suffix

4. Adding a suffix to a word ending in -y

5. Commonly misspelled words

6. Long /a/

7. Long /e/

8. Long /i/

9. Long /o/

10. Commonly misspelled words

11. Long /u/

12. -ie or -ei

13. Plural nouns

14. Soft or hard /g/

15. Commonly misspelled words

16. Soft or hard /c/

17. Words with prefixes

18. Words with suffixes

19. Homophones

20. Commonly misspelled words

21. -tion ending

22. Silent letters

23. "R" controlled vowels

24. Compound words

25. Commonly misspelled words

26. Portmanteau words

27. Words with contractions

28. Singular possessives

29. Irregular plural words

30. Commonly misspelled words

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