Third Grade Spelling Words
Here are the Rocket Spelling word lists and level numbers that we think align well with third grade standards. For more background on this, check out this post.
Level 7.1 Colors: orange, green, blue, violet, yellow, purple, black, brown, white, pink
Level 7.2 Parts of the body: hand, elbow, finger, arm, ear, foot, head, back, stomach, toe
Level 7.3 Families: mother, father, brother, sister, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt, daughter
Level 7.4 Days, calendar words: decade, century, month, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Level 7.5 Months : January, February, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Level 7.6 Number words #1: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Level 7.7 Number words #2: eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
Level 7.8 Number words #3: thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, thousand, million
Level 7.9 Math terms: equal, angle, degrees, decimal, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, sum, difference
Level 7.10 Writing terms: consonant, vowel, paragraph, essay, sentence, assignment, period, comma, verb, adjective
Level 7.11 School words: science, social, studies, music, subject, physical, education, library, history, students
Level 7.12 Jobs: -er and -or endings: teacher, farmer, author, mayor, lawyer, doctor, director, sailor, builder
Level 7.13 Geography terms: America, Africa, Europe, Australia, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Asia, ocean
Level 7.14 High frequency list M: change, finally, example, questions, problem, usually, please, meant, become, measure
Level 7.15 High frequency list N: position, island, correct, common, understand, factor, object, continue, behind, heart
Level 8.1 Plurals with -s and -es: guesses, doors, glasses, symbols, potatoes, dresses, flowers, seeds, valleys, taxes
Level 8.2 Plurals with -y to -ies, -f to -ves: ponies, babies, loaves, shelves, knives, lives, stories, ladies, copies, parties
Level 8.3 Irregular plurals: children, women, teeth, mice, feet, people, men, geese, sheep, deer
Level 8.4 Mixed plural review: puppies, kisses, wishes, wolves, elves, families, churches, volcanoes, boxes, heroes
Level 8.5 Homophones #1: except, accept, here, hear, its, it's, hours, ours, week, weak
Level 8.6 Homophones #2: scent, sent, cent, wait, weight, break, brake, by, buy, bye
Level 8.7 Homophones #3: passed, past, would, wood, their, there, meat, meet, affect, effect
Level 8.8 Homophones #4: whole, hole, whether, weather, close, clothes, plain, plane, son, sun
Level 8.9 High frequency list O: slowly, remember, several, money, war, toward, morning, different, against, pattern
Level 8.10 High frequency list P: nothing, circle, system, square, perhaps, already, energy, exactly, whose, engine
Level 9.1 Present-tense verbs: touch, leave, represent, describe, pull, laugh, suggest, decide, climb, finish
Level 9.2 -ing verbs where the silent -e drops: dancing, driving, making, loving, caring, hoping, riding, smiling, saving, serving
Level 9.3 -ing verbs: regular vs. consonant doubling: swimming, running, winning, throwing, washing, mailing, kicking, listening, hopping, sitting
Level 9.4 -ed verbs: regular vs. consonant doubling: mixed, covered, enjoyed, compared, planned, tapped, dropped, tagged, stopped, tipped
Level 9.5 -y verbs with -ing, -ed endings: cried, crying, carrying, carried, hurrying, hurried, trying, tried, burying, buried
Level 9.6 Mixed -ed and -ing verb endings: happened, remaining, including, writing, taking, quitting, begged, hoped, excited, wrapped
Level 9.7 Past tense verbs: -ought, -aught, and -ept: thought, brought, bought, caught, taught, fought, sought, kept, slept, swept
Level 9.8 Past tense irregular verbs: began, felt, became, built, wrote, stood, heard, paid, spoke, took
Level 9.9 Mixed verb review: prepared, repeating, arrived, understood, drove, broke, dragged, grinning, surviving, timing
Level 9.10 High frequency list Q: complete, numeral, calculator, dollar, bottom, famous, notice, design, travel, various
Level 9.11 High frequency list R: naughty, instead, surface, course, produce, important, window, develop, strange, suddenly
Level 10.1 Compound words #1: something, sometimes, anything, everything, yourself, everyone, himself, herself, someone, anyone
Level 10.2 Compound words #2: keyboard, notebook, homework, wheelchair, baseball, afternoon, birthday, newspaper, grasshopper, skateboard
Level 10.3 Contractions with 'not': don't, didn't, can't, won't, wasn't, isn't, wouldn't, doesn't, shouldn't, aren't
Level 10.4 Contractions with 'am', 'is', 'are': they're, I'm, he's, she's, you're, we're, what's, who's, where's, there's
Level 10.5 Contractions with 'will', 'would', 'have', 'had': I'll, we'll, you'll, I'd, she'd, we've, you've, he'd, they've, it'll
Level 10.6 Mixed contractions: let's, couldn't, haven't, they'll, I've, he'll, she'll, that's, weren't, we'd
Level 10.7 High frequency list S: products, unit, figure, certain, distance, difficult, length, width, summer, winter
Level 10.8 High frequency list T: practice, information, captain, language, material, especially, natural, dictionary, control, explain
This list contains a massive 440 words, which could get to be a bit much, so we'll include the last group of levels (from planet 10) in our fourth grade spelling word list as well.