WORD STUDY PROGRAM

Level Creek Elementary - Grade 3

This year our word study program will consist of the following:

  • Third Grade Priority Words—these are words from first and second grade that students are expected to know and spell correctly in their daily writings. Attached is a copy of this list to review at home with your child.
  • Fry’s Word List— Many of our spelling words will come from this published list. Weekly words will be grouped according to their spelling rules and phonemic patterns.
  • Dolch Word List- Our spelling words may also come from this published list of sight words. Many words in our English language simply cannot be sounded out or spelled based on their letter sounds. Some words must be memorized and recognized “on sight.” Thus, the reason they are called Sight Words. These words will be used in conjunction with the Fry’s Word List.
  • Vocabulary Word Study—We are using a vocabulary program supported by GCPS called Building Vocabularyfrom Word Roots. This program focuses the study of words and their meanings; the study of word roots and how these patterns construct meaning on prefixes, suffixes, affixes, compound words, as well as Latin and Greek roots.
  • Handwriting— During the second semester, students will begin working on cursive handwriting. They will learn upper and lower case letters, words, and phrases. Students will be expected to know cursive proficiently upon entering 4th grade.

THIRD GRADE PRIORITY WORDS

Below is a list of words that all students should know how to spell correctly upon entering third grade. Please review these words with your child at home. Occasionally, some of these words will appear on our third grade spelling tests as review words.

a / bought / else / grass / job / miss / run / spot / though / when
about / box / end / great / just / move / said / stand / thought / where
act / break / eye / guess / kept / much / sand / step / thus / which
add / bring / fact / had / key / must / sat / still / to / who
again / brought / fall / half / king / next / sell / stop / too / whose
against / build / fast / hand / land / not / send / such / top / will
all / built / fell / has / last / of / sent / sum / touch / win
am / but / felt / hat / laughed / off / set / sun / trip / wind
an / buy / fig / have / led / oh / seven / swim / two / wish
and / by / fish / he / left / on / shall / tall / up / with
any / call / fit / held / length / once / she / tell / us / yes
are / can / flat / help / less / one / ship / ten / very / yet
as / cat / for / here / let / or / shop / test / wall / you
at / class / four / hill / list / out / sing / than / want / young
bad / come / fresh / him / live / past / sit / that / war / your
ball / cost / from / his / long / plan / six / their / warm
bank / cross / front / hit / lost / plan / skin / them / was
be / cut / full / hot / lot / poem / small / then / we
bed / did / fun / how / love / put / smell / thin / wear
been / do / gas / I / man / ran / soft / thing / well
bell / does / get / if / many / red / some / think / went
best / dog / give / in / map / rest / son / this / were
big / done / glass / is / men / rich / song / there / west
bill / dress / God / it / milk / ring / spell / they / what
bit / drop / gone
blood / each / got