National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 1 Lesson 1 "Rugby & Rosie"
Unit 1 Lesson 2
"The Legend of Damon and Pythias“
Unit 1 Lesson 3
"Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong"
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tame
poem
shipwreck
exchange
she’d
o’clock
wild
patient
huge
garbage
we’ll
shouldn’t
choke
grateful
twice
distance
haven’t
wrote
homework
wasn’t
music
bulldog
aren’t
fire
gentle
would’ve
blaze
range
doesn’t
menu
city
that’s
smile
since
page
cedar
notebook
cube
item
decent
moment
major
waterfront
strike
cube
germ
basic
complete
logic
human
total
agent
cellar
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 1 Lesson 4 "Beauty and the Beast"
Unit 1 Lesson 5 "Teammates"
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mercy
timidly
knot
dolphin
heavy
despair
write
wrestle
spray
phony
triumph
honey
climb
brief
knee
field
graph
street
phase
alley
know
plain
wreath
turkey
thumb
east
wrist
day
lamb
week
trophy
year
knife
claim
comb
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 2 Lesson 1
"One Small Place in a Tree"
Unit 2 Lesson 2 "Make Way for Ducklings"
Unit 2 Lesson 3 "Wolf Island"
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lie
dwellers
bow
cacti
cue
pitcher
ties
outcries
mice
pillow
few
nephew
fly
women
well
flies
coach
rose
halves
deer
argue
cycles
throw
tire
reply
roast
hue
replies
teeth
ring
sigh
crow
value
monkeys
oxen
change
lunches
low
spew
fight
loan
rescue
knights
grow
park
spy
float
view
spies
fish
light
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 2 Lesson 4 "Two Days in May"
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Challenge Words
groan
waste
grown
waist
seam
seem
Unit 2 Lesson 5
"Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing Animal Habitats"
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Challenge Words
clue
jewel
tuna
duet
root
June
piece
flute
peace
blue
by
chew
buy
choose
toe
glue
tow
noodle
horse
truth
hoarse
blew
meet
stew
meat
duty
tale
rude
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 3 Lesson 1 "It’s a Deal!"
Unit 3 Lesson 2 "The Go-Around Dollar"
Unit 3 Lesson 3 "Lemons and Lemonade"
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took
woodwork
browse
fountain
fall
squawk
wood
staring
shower
admitted
caught
happier
landing
howl
faster
brook
couch
August
playing
stripped
talk
timing
striped
small
hood
married
fought
batting
jammed
yawn
amazing
named
bought
stood
tried
thinnest
good
bored
hawk
hopping
noun
taught
hoping
loud
chalk
shook
mouse
tall
meaning
crowded
auto
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 3 Lesson 4
"Madam C.J. Walker: Self-Made
Millionaire"
Unit 3 Lesson 5 "Uncle Jed’s Barbershop"
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better
employer
glow
county
royal
worst
bonus
tissue
less
road
raccoon
spoil
town
most
owl
moist
pound
voice
about
oyster
July
coin
scoop
best
due
joy
flew
more
use
point
rule
cowboy
mule
least
unit
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 4 Lesson 1 "Sun"
Unit 4 Lesson 2
"Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun"
Unit 4 Lesson 3
"The Moon Seems to Change"
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slightly
apartment
ringed
wonderful
weakness
breathless
kindly
easily
painful
injured
tension
explosion
partly
fixable
sleepless
daily
scared
rarity
scary
helpful
endless
chewy
filling
sanity
rusty
pleasing
fitness
bony
wishful
priceless
shipment
notable
purity
payment
stunning
erosion
treatment
wearable
blindness
statement
dressing
electricity
selection
clogged
fairness
invention
harmful
division
action
likable
careless
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 4 Lesson 4 "Journey to the Moon"
Unit 4 Lesson 5 "Earth: Our Planet in Space"
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grateful
biography
scary
advertisement
mission
microscope
kindly
amusing
report
pleasing
autograph
clogged
astronaut
harmful
dialogue
erosion
import
careless
marine
statement
photograph
mariner
mariner
grateful
dismiss
import
gratitude
notable
astronomy
electricity
apology
weakness
telescope
telescope
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 5 Lesson 1
"The House on Maple Street"
Unit 5 Lesson 2 "Days of Digging"
Unit 5 Lesson 3
"Earthquake! The 1906 San Francisco
Nightmare"
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mismatch
preschool
disprove
disagree
lucky
exactly
unclear
unaware
bifocal
autobiography
unlucky
disconnect
reread
autopilot
freeze
refund
upon
antifreeze
unzip
midsummer
rest
misprint
distrust
restful
unload
biplane
restless
mislead
automatic
fade
preheat
midtown
miswrite
restart
within
count
prefix
automobile
discount
unfair
near
move
recount
midweek
movement
misplace
disband
tell
preview
bicycle
retell
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 5 Lesson 4
"The Disappearing Island"
Unit 5 Lesson 5
"What Ever Happened to the Baxter Place?"
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live
know
mismatch
misspell
lively
unknown
preview
knowledge
relive
knowledge
movement
living
bicycle
honor
doubtful
honorable
restless
honest
restful
honesty
direct
direct
direction
director
director
direction
indirect
indirect
autopilot
doubt
distrust
doubtful
unfair
undoubted
midsummer
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 6 Lesson 1
"Tomas and the Library Lady"
Unit 6 Lesson 2 "Storm in the Night"
Unit 6 Lesson 3 "Pueblo Storyteller"
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strange
eager
they’re
statue
foot
uniform
concert
package
there
hyena
prowl
haughty
peanut
wristband
geese
swallow
bounce
washcloth
moose
walk
mute
cue
thought
these
train
departing
wrap
owner
more
didn’t
throat
cuter
pupil
steal
stall
limb
steel
soon
jacket
weighty
stumbled
scarf
cries
hoist
orphan
bright
greatest
knuckle
rubies
pure
you’re
lead
vault
May 15, 2008
National Spelling List
Grade 3
Unit 6 Lesson 4 "Johnny Appleseed"
Unit 6 Lesson 5 "McBroom and the Big Wind"
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Challenge Words
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Challenge Words
astronomer
exhausted
wreck
scenery
support
exaggerated
rewrite
nonfiction
graphic
affectionately
unwrap
huddled
flawless
final
congratulate
finish
quality
finite
geologist
knack
neatly
precook
basement
mistreat
shyness
biceps
invasion
midnight
padded
dislike
painting
judge
bendable
homeless
colorful
beautiful
May 15, 2008