Harcourt Journeys Grade 3

Harcourt Journeys Grade 3

Unit 1 ~ Spelling

Week 1 – Short Vowels / crop, plan, thing, smell, shut, sticky, spent, lunch, pumpkin, clock, gift, class, skip, swing Review: next, hug
Challenge: hospital, fantastic
Week 2 - VCe / spoke, mile, save, excuse, cone, invite, cube, price, erase, ripe, broke, flame, life, rule R: these, those
Ch: surprise, decide
Week 3 – Long a and long e / lay, real, trail, sweet, today, dream, seem, tea, treat, afraid, leave, bait, screen, speed
R: paint, please
Ch: yesterday, explain
Week 4 – Long o / load, open, told, yellow, soak, shadow, foam, follow, glow, sold, window, coach, almost, throat
R: cold, most
Ch: tomorrow, sailboats
Week 5 – Long i / slight, mild, sight, pie, mind, tie, pilot, might, lie, light, blind, fight, die, midnight
R: find, night
Ch: silent, frightening

Unit 2 ~ Spelling

Week 6 – More short and long vowels / math, toast, easy, socks, Friday, stuff, paid, cheese, June, elbow, program, shiny, piles, sticky
R: each, both
Ch: comb, holiday
Week 7 – Three letter clusters / three, scrap, street, spring, thrill ,scream, strange, throw, string, strong, scrape, scratch, spray, threw
R: think, they
Ch: straight, scramble
Week 8 – Unexpected consonant / itch, wreck, knee, stretch, patch, watch, match, wrap, write, wrong, knot, knife, knew, knock
R: know, catch
Ch: wrinkle, knuckle
Week 9 – Vowel sound in town / clown, bow, power, crowd, powder, frown, round, cloud, thousand, sound, count, blouse, pound, crown
R: house, found
Ch: mountain, coward
Week 10 – Sound in talk / talk, salt, chalk, cross, awful, law, raw, lawn, always, wall, also, cost, crawl, cloth
R: soft, small
Ch: often, strawberry

Unit 3 ~ Spelling

Week 11 – vowel sound in joy / joy, join, joint, point, voice, oil, boil, soil, choice, noise, toy, boy
R: come, are
Ch: poison, destroy
Week 12 – homophones / hole, whole, it’s, its, here, hear, one, won, our, are, their, there, fir, fur
R: rode, road
Ch: peace, piece
Week 13 – contractions / I’d, he’s, he’d, haven’t, doesn’t, let’s, there’s, wouldn’t, what’s, she’s, aren’t, they’re, hasn’t, couldn’t
R: can’t. isn’t
Ch: we’re, weren’t
Week 14 – vowel + /r/ sounds / horse, mark, March, storm, thorn, market, acorn, artist, north, barking, stork, chore, restore, forest
R: dark, story
Ch: partner, fortune
Week 15 – vowel + /r/ sound in nurse / nurse, work, shirt, hurt, first, word, serve, curly, dirt, third, worry, turn, stir, firm
R: her, girl
Ch: perfect, hamburger

Unit 4 ~ Spelling

Week 16 – vowel + /r/ sound in air and fear / air, wear, chair, stairs, bear, bare, hair, care, pair, pear, share, near, ear, beard
R: buy, year
Ch: earring, compare
Week 17 – words with /j/ and /s/ / age, space, change, jawbone, jacket, giant, pencil, circle, once, large, dance, jeans, bounce, huge
R: nice, place
Ch: excited, gigantic
Week 18 – /k/ and /kw/ sounds / shark, check, queen, circus, flake, crack, second, squeeze, quart, squeak, quick, coldest, Africa, Mexico
R: black, thank
Ch: correct, question
Week 19 – vowel sounds in spoon and wood / mood, wooden, drew, smooth, blue, balloon, true, crooked, chew, tooth, hooves, cool, food, pooch
R: blew, foot
Ch: loose, jewel
Week 20 – compounds / birthday, anyone, sometimes, everything, homework, afternoon, airplane, grandmother, something, without, himself, faraway, sunburned, daylight
R: someone, cannot
Ch: scorekeeper, everybody

Unit 5 ~ Spelling

Week 21 – words with -ed and -ing / coming, swimming, dropping, tapping, taping, invited, saving, stared, planned, changing, joking, loved, gripped, tasted
R: making, stopped
Ch: freezing, scared
Week 22 – changing final y to i / cities, cried, puppies, hurried, stories, flies, parties, tried, pennies, fried, carried, babies, spied, ponies
R: pretty, very
Ch: countries, libraries
Week 23 – suffixes ending in -ful, -ly, & -er / singer, loudly, joyful, teacher, fighter, closely, powerful, farmer, quickly, careful, friendly, speaker, wonderful, truly
R: hopeful, safely
Ch: listener, calmly
Week 24 – prefixes with re- & un- / unfold, rejoin, untie, reheat, unfair, unclear, repaid, rewrite, unhurt, recheck, unlucky, unwrap, reuse, unsure
R: reread, unsafe
Ch: unbuckle, unknown
Week 25 – suffixes ending in -less, & - ness / painless, sickness, sadness, helpless, thankless, kindness, hopeless, darkness, fearless, thickness, careless, goodness, spotless, softness R: useful, weakly
Ch: breathless, eagerness

Unit 6 ~ Spelling

Week 26 – VccV pattern / person, helmet, until, carpet, Monday, Sunday, enjoy, forget, problem, garden, order, mistake, umpire, herself
R: after, under
Ch: expect, wisdom
Week 27 – double consonants / jelly, bottom, pillow, happen, butter, lesson, cherry, sudden, arrow, dollar, hello, rabbit, letter, button
R: funny, better
Ch: stubborn, mirror
Week 28 – words with oughaugh / taught, thought, rough, laugh, bought, caught, ought, cough, fought, daughter, tough, through, enough, brought
R: was, draw
Ch: sought, naughty
Week 29 – words ending with –er & - le / apple, river, little, October, November, ladder, summer, purple, later, giggle, uncle, winter, center, double
R: flower, people
Ch: whistle, character
Week 30 – beginning with a- or be- / below, about, belong, around, again, alone, because, above, between, alive, behind, begin, before, along
R: away, want
Ch: awhile, beyond