Sight words-
Weekly Spelling Words for Grade 3
Week 1
Sight words, short a/e words, and academic vocabulary
1. high
2. every
3. near
4. west
5. dress
6. best
7. next
8. else
9. checked
10. grand
11. stand
12. punish
13. monarch
14. migrate
15. butterfly
16. nectar
Week 2
Sight words, short i/o/u words, and academic vocabulary
1. between
2. own
3. base
4. country
5. plant
6. slip
7. lunch
8. pond
9. front
10. thump
11. inches
12. yard
13. area
14. formula
15. width
16. calculate
Week 3
Sight words, long a/e words, and academic vocabulary
1. save
2. school
3. father
4. keep
5. safe
6. grade
7. reached
8. raise
9. theme
10. scream
11. easy
12. highway
13. navigate
14. ocean
15. travel
16. direction
Week 4
Sight words, long i/o words, and academic vocabulary
1. trade
2. start
3. city
4. earth
5. hope
6. stone
7. follow
8. broke
9. sign
10. tiny
11. whole
12. wave
13. current
14. electric
15. science
16. round
Week 5
Sight words, blends st/str, and academic vocabulary
1. upon
2. thought
3. gun
4. strong
5. story
6. burst
7. strip
8. stream
9. street
10. distance
11. least
12. hundred
13. east
14. zero
15. nothing16. Amount
Week 6
Sight words, kn/wr words, and academic vocabulary
1. cried
2. dried
3. milk
4. let’s
5. while
6. known
7. knife
8. knock
9. wrong
10. knot
11. wrinkle
12. wrap
13. wrist
14. knee
15. aloud
16. express
Week 7
Sight words, gh/ph words, and academic vocabulary
1. along
2. bought
3. close
4. something
5. seem
6. laughed
7. lady
8. enough
9. graph
10. paragraph
11. photograph
12. history
13. village
14. future
15. hometown
16. settlers
Week 8
Sight words, ch/tch words, and academic vocabulary
1. cloud
2. child
3. open
4. example
5. begin
6. chance
7. match
8. watch
9. batch
10. steel
11. speech
12. source
13. material
14. ditch
15. women
16. iron
Week 9
Sight words, sh words, and academic vocabulary
1. can’t
2. shall
3. those
4. both
5. paper
6. pushed
7. sharp
8. shock
9. crash
10. showed
11. shoes
12. shoulder
13. product
14. quotient
15. multiplication
16. division
Week 10
Sight words, s sound of c, and academic vocabulary
1. together
2. tied
3. group
4. often
5. table
6. space
7. fence
8. price
9. office
10. police
11. pencil
12. civil
13. tribal
14. buffalo
15. dance
16. plains
Week 11
Sight words, j sound of g, and academic vocabulary
1. important
2. cannot
3. children
4. wife
5. gentle
6. giraffe
7. hoe
8. stage
9. engine
10. badge
11. ginger
12. arctic
13. adapt
14. tundra
15. behavior
16. pelt
Week 12
Sight words, oi sound, and academic vocabulary
1. held
2. cross
3. night
4. walk
5. picked
6. choice
7. voice
8. royal
9. annoy
10. noise
11. tomato
12. potato
13. citrus
14. nutrients
15. vitamins
16. vegetable
Week 13
Sight words, ou sound, and academic vocabulary
1. sea
2. began
3. shouted
4. took
5. river
6. crown
7. however
8. around
9. growl
10. fountain
11. ground
12. pounds
13. account
14. drought
15. remainder
16. object
Week 14
Sight words, short aw sound, and academic vocabulary
1. sleep
2. carry
3. north
4. once
5. book
6. crawl
7. laundry
8. author
9. taught
10. pause
11. dawn
12. folklore
13. custom
14. disappear
15. willow
16. traditional
Week 15
Sight words, long & short oo, and academic vocabulary
1. south
2. sir
3. without
4. second
5. birds
6. loose
7. choose
8. shook
9. understood
10. balloon
11. looked
12. moose
13. wheel
14. season
15. axle
16. momentum
Week 16
Sight words, r-controlled, and academic vocabulary
1. miss
2. idea
3. copy
4. poor
5. floor
6. started
7. stars
8. carpet
9. marker
10. party
11. pardon
12. lunar
13. cycle
14. appearance
15. quarter
16. phase
Week 17
Sight words, air sounds, and academic vocabulary
1. among
2. buy
3. fairy
4. real
5. almost
6. stairs
7. glare
8. airplane
9. airy
10. repair
11. prepare
12. culture
13. Delta
14. bayou
15. interact
16. establish
Week 18
Sight words, or sounds, and academic vocabulary
1. fly
2. born
3. smell
4. sometimes
5. mountains
6. worn
7. fourth
8. war
9. horse
10. morning
11. poured
12. portrait
13. contrast
14. value
15. shadow
16. blood
Week 19
Sight words, homophones, and academic vocabulary
1. verb
2. young3. talk
4. pulled
5. list
6. here
7. hear
8. bare
9. bear
10. way
11. weigh
12. telescope
13. magnify
14. planets
15. reflect
16. mirror
Week 20
Sight words, homophones, and academic vocabulary
1. sugar
2. being
3. leave
4. noun
5. it’s
6. flower
7. flour
8. bored
9. board
10. hair
11. hare
12. clear
13. fraction
14. numerator
15. denominator
16. improper
Week 21
Words with ur sound and academic vocabulary
1. perfect
2. curled
3. church
4. firm
5. skirt
6. clerk
7. shirt
8. person
9. terms
10. jerked
11. burned
12. desert
13. climate
14. geography
15. rainfall
16. forest
Week 22
Double consonant words and academic vocabulary
1. hugged
2. correct
3. funny
4. happy
5. puppy
6. common
7. collect
8. bottles
9. different
10. lesson
11. orbit
12. position13. solar
14. elliptical
15. gravity
16. likely
Week 23
Words with er and est and academic vocabulary
1. thick
2. strangest
3. bigger
4. better
5. highest
6. tallest
7. richest
8. smarter
9. louder
10. hotter
11. jumped
12. happiest
13. data
14. measurement
15. prettier
16. visit
Week 24
Compound words and academic vocabulary
1. notebook
2. sunset
3. bookcase
4. classroom
5. everyone
6. football
7. sunshine
8. rainbow
9. baseball
10. hallway
11. outdoors
12. quiet
13. knowledge
14. outcome
15. organize
16. review
Week 25
VCCV pattern words and academic vocabulary
1. winter
2. army
3. cellar
4. garden
5. market
6. basket
7. welcome
8. until
9. always
10. cowboy
11. lasso
12. barter
13. continuity
14. change
15. worth
16. whose
Week 26
VCV word, and academic vocabulary
1. cabin
2. rule
3. music
4. tiger
5. behind
6. rewind
7. focus
8. belong
9. family
10. brother
11. motel
12. conduct
13. lightning
14. volts
15. complex
16. particle
Week 27
Words with suffix – ed/-ing and academic vocabulary
1. liked
2. worried
3. rolling
4. singing
5. swimming
6. settled
7. talked
8. hurried
9. buying
10. trying
11. leaving
12. diving
13. icing
14. compare
15. decimal
16. simplify
Week 28
Words with suffix – tion/-sion and academic vocabulary
1. permission
2. confession
3. vision
4. please
5. action
6. quotation
7. hunting
8. nation
9. combination
10. question
11. attention
12. independence
13. constitution
14. majority
15. exact
16. national
Week 29
Words with suffix – ful/-fully and academic vocabulary
1. beautiful
2. cheerful
3. harmful
4. playful
5. useful
6. colorful
7. thankfully
8. joyfully
9. helpfully
10. painfully
11. carefully
12. feature
13. bountiful
14. temperature
15. difference
16. thermometer
Week 30
Words with suffix -ly/-ally and academic vocabulary
1. lonely
2. suddenly
3. actually
4. personally
5. especially
6. formally
7. rapidly
8. dangerously
9. tenderly
10. lovely
11. nicely
12. audience
13. orchestra
14. apron
15. balcony
16. curtain
Week 31
Words with suffix -able/-ably and academic vocabulary
1. comfortable
2. honorably
3. erasable
4. available
5. portable
6. laughable
7. irritably
8. feeling
9. capable
10. disposable
11. reusable
12. tube
13. syllable
14. perimeter
15. sum
16. general
Week 32
Y to i change words and academic vocabulary
1. penny
2. pennies
3. empty
4. emptied
5. parties
6. families
7. mystery
8. mysteries
9. discovery
10. married
11. carried
12. jury
13. argument
14. verdict
15. guilty
16. lawyer
Week 33
Contraction words and academic vocabulary
1. he’s
2. she’s
3. didn’t
4. isn’t
5. you’re
6. we’re
7. they’re
8. there’s
9. haven’t
10. won’t
11. don’t
12. extinct
13. natural
14. species
15. condor
16. wasn’t
Week 34
Contraction words and academic vocabulary
1. we’ll
2. I’ll
3. he’ll
4. she’ll
5. you’ll
6. they’ll
7. you’ve
8. they’ve
9. I’ve
10. I’d
11. we’d
12. she’d
13. elapse
14. interaction
15. sundial
16. atomic
Week 35
Final -er words and academic vocabulary
1. under
2. swim
3. never
4. main
5. center
6. border
7. fever
8. sister
9. whether
10. answer
11. shower
12. local
13. explorer
14. government
15. federal
16. State
Week 36
Final -le/-al words, and academic vocabulary
1. total
2. central
3. final
4. simple
5. chuckle
6. giggle
7. middle
8. signal
9. handle
10. candle
11. uncle
12. piano
13. ivory
14. musical
15. modify
16. clarify
