3rd Grade Weekly Spelling Lists: Weeks 19-27

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 19: Plurals with -es and -ies: classes, benches, matches, branches, bunches, families, countries, parties, enemies, libraries. Week 20: Irregular plurals: shelves, calves, loaves, scarves, thieves, elves, wives, deer, moose, hooves. Week 21: Prefixes un-, re- and dis-: unkind, unfair, unable, rewrite, rebuild, reheat, dislike, disagree, disappear, dishonest. Week 22: Prefixes pre-, mis- and non-: preview, preheat, pretest, misspell, mistake, misplace, misread, nonstop, nonsense, nonfiction. Week 23: Suffixes -ful, -less and -ness: colorful, powerful, beautiful, painless, spotless, sleepless, kindness, darkness, sadness, goodness. Week 24: Suffixes -er, -est and -ly: taller, smaller, faster, tallest, smallest, fastest, kindly, safely, nicely, bravely. Week 25: Suffixes -y and -able: rainy, sunny, cloudy, windy, snowy, washable, readable, breakable, enjoyable, valuable. Week 26: Words ending in -le: bottle, cattle, gentle, handle, needle, pebble, saddle, tickle, wiggle, sparkle. Week 27: Endings -tion and -sion: action, nation, motion, station, lotion, vacation, television, mission, explosion, decision.

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.