3rd Grade Weekly Spelling Lists: Weeks 10-18

Cut along the line and send the list home on Monday for practice. On Friday, read each word aloud, use it in a sentence and have students write it on a numbered line of the test. Keep the tests to see which spelling patterns need another week.

10 pages: a cover and 9 printable pages. Week 10: R-controlled ar and or: garden, market, carpet, alarm, morning, report, forest, score, explore, ignore. Week 11: R-controlled er, ir, ur and ear: person, perfect, thirsty, circle, return, surface, learn, earth, search, early. Week 12: R-controlled air, are and ear: chair, stairs, repair, dairy, share, square, aware, wear, bear, pear. Week 13: Everyday homophones review: their, there, your, you're, its, it's, to, too, whose, who's. Week 14: Homophone pairs: weak, week, mane, main, groan, grown, steak, stake, peace, piece. Week 15: Silent kn, wr, gn, mb, gh: kneel, knife, knuckle, wrist, wrench, gnaw, sign, crumb, plumber, ghost. Week 16: Doubling before -ed and -ing: grabbed, clapped, slipped, planning, dropping, beginning, winning, tapped, skipping, admitted. Week 17: Drop the e, add -ed or -ing: hoped, saved, dancing, writing, smiling, shining, closed, chased, skated, tasted. Week 18: Change y to i before an ending: hurried, worried, copied, studied, emptied, happier, funnier, busier, prettiest, easiest.

Yes. We made it for 3rd Grade spelling lists, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

10 words a week for 36 weeks, a full school year.

One pattern a week: long vowel spellings, vowel teams and r-controlled vowels in weeks 1 to 12, homophones, silent letters, rules for adding endings, prefixes and suffixes in weeks 13 to 24, then -tion and -sion, compound words, contractions, possessives and math and science words in weeks 25 to 36.

Yes. Every weekly page has the take-home list of 10 3rd grade words at the top and a numbered spelling test below a cut line, ready for Friday.

Send the list home on Monday, practice the pattern in class during the week, and give the test on Friday. Keep a few minutes each day for reading and writing the words in sentences.