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

fume

item

decent

moment

major

waterfront

strike

cube

germ

basic

complete

logic

human

total

agent

cellar

July 28, 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

July 28, 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

toast

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

oatmeal

spew

fight

loan

rescue

knights

grow

park

spy

float

view

spies

fish

light

July 28, 2008

National Spelling List Grade 3

Unit 2 Lesson 4 "Two Days in May" Spelling Words

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groan

waste

grown

waist

seam seem

Unit 2 Lesson 5 "Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing Animal Habitats" Spelling Words

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

July 28, 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

crowd

auto

July 28, 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

July 28, 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

July 28, 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

July 28, 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

July 28, 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

July 28, 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

July 28, 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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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

July 28, 2008