3rd Grade Spelling Unit | Spelling Curriculum | Spelling Lists
About This Product
Anchor your 3rd graders in spelling success with this meticulously designed year-long curriculum spanning 30 weeks of engaging content. Developed for elementary classrooms and homeschool settings, it takes a patterns and rules approach to systematically build skills. Each week spotlights 10 carefully chosen words plus room to plug in 5 personalized vocabulary picks tied to current themes or trouble spots. This blend of structured scope and tailored customization enables targeted, immersive learning.
Strategically organized around spelling conventions like prefixes, vowel teams, syllable breaks, and more, this 200+ page program nurtures understanding in tandem with memorization. Students actively study the reasoning behind spelling rules while reinforcing vital language arts abilities. Vibrant accompanying materials allow educators to focus on delivery rather than planning.
Each weekly installment includes a colorful poster modeling that week’s spelling list and correlating linguistic pattern, test sentence call-out sheets, pretest/test templates, and diverse worksheets suited for varied learning preferences. From tracing activities to original sentence writing to correctly spelling terms in context, the spectrum of activities underscores well-rounded engagement.
Supplementary resources expand customizability and instructional options with an overall 3rd grade spelling word bank, multiple test templates, personalized practice sheets and beyond. This robust curriculum aims to make both teaching and learning this fundamental skill more dynamic via an explicit skills-building approach. Equip your 3rd graders for spelling prowess with a content-rich program designed to illuminate the reasoning behind spelling conventions.
Spelling Rules and Patterns Included By Week:
Week 1- Words with short vowels
Week 2- Words that use the "Magic E" rule
Week 3- Words that double the final consonants when adding a suffix
Week 4- Words that add a suffix to a work ending in -y
Week 5- Commonly misspelled words
Week 6- Words with a long /a/
Week 7- Words with a long /e/
Week 8- Words with a long /i/
Week 9- Words with a long /o/
Week 10- Commonly misspelled words
Week 11- Words with a long /u/
Week 12- Words that use an -ie or -ei
Week 13- Regular plural nouns
Week 14- Words that have a soft or hard /g/
Week 15- Commonly misspelled words
Week 16- Words that have a soft or hard /c/
Week 17- Words that have a prefix
Week 18- Words that have a suffix
Week 19- Homophones
Week 20- Commonly misspelled words
Week 21- Words with a -tion ending
Week 22- Words with silent letters
Week 23- Words with "R" controlled vowels
Week 24- Compound words
Week 25- Commonly misspelled words
Week 26- Portmanteau words
Week 27- Words with contractions
Week 28- Singular Possessives
Week 29- Irregular plural words
Week 30- Commonly misspelled words
Need Other Levels of Spelling? Check these out:
Check out other resources from my store: Simply Schoolgirl!
I can be contacted for questions and concerns at simplyschoolgirl1@gmail.com
Resource Tags
0 Reviews
Check out these other great products
