Study Words for Third Grade | 2016-2017
paint
soul
banana
might
subject
dishes
farewell
young
supplies
contract
anteater
pouring
climbed
teaspoon
balance
frown
partly
beginning
lantern
knitting
temper
forward
vacation
subtracting
merely
burst
strange
skateboard
portable
furnish
hungry
hitched
poem
twine
passage
riddle
rather
snoozing
estate
complaints
porch
puzzles
lotion
umbrella
thunderbolt
silver
sign
prevented
timidly
nonsense
untidy
pebbles
smirk
observe
mansion
curved
married
destiny
trance
laundry
leaky
chamber
monkeys
elderly
available
interact
flicker
studio
liquid
lodging
sturdy
onion
nifty
deadline
portions
chatter
arcade
janitor
country
gallant
bakery
London
pottery
flexible
veins
darkest
pounce
wonderful
promote
mountain
feast
shrill
square
massive
whistling
dollars
mayor
belief
bronze
voyage
This list includes 50 challenging third grade words and, to extend learning, 50 challenging fourth grade words. If you learn the spellings and meanings of these 100 words, you will be well prepared for a third grade classroom bee. If you would like to be well prepared for a school spelling bee, ask your teacher for the 450-word School Spelling Bee Study List.
Third Grade Source Books (the first 50 words may be found in these books):
• Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Will Wissinger
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
• Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
• Who Was Isaac Newton? by Janet B. Pascal
• Mr. Popper’s Penguin’s by Richard Atwater
Fourth Grade Source Books (the last 50 words may be found in these books):
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
• Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster