3rd Grade Spelling Practice, Phonics + Heart Words, Test Templates, NO PREP

Weekly Spelling Packets! Get ready to transform your weekly spelling routines! No more random list of words! This fun, hands-on and engaging 38 Week Spelling Program is phonics based!

Also available:

• First Grade Spelling Curriculum
• Second Grade Spelling Curriculum

What is Included?

• 38 Weeks of Spelling packets Monday - Thursday practice/ Friday Test
• 9 Spelling Menus - one for each new Focused Phonics Skill
• Built in Spiral Review of Spelling Rules
• Weekly Packet Covers with the Spelling Rule and words on front cover
• Flashcards for each List
• Spelling List
• Spelling Test Paper
• Overview of all Spelling Lists
• Overview of all Activities

How are the Word Chosen?

Phonics Based Spelling

Each week focuses on a phonics skill or spelling rules. Like phonics-based reading instruction, phonics-based spelling builds a deep understanding of the patterns in words. As a result, students will not need to learn to spell one word at a time. Instead, they will learn patterns that they can apply to any word. With phonics-based spelling students will systematically and incrementally improve their ability to spell both simple and complex words.

Ways to use this Curriculum:

Traditional Weekly Spelling & Assessments

• Assign students one word list a week.
• Use the provided activities throughout the week for fun hands-on practice.
• Assess your students at the end of the week with one of the provided spelling test templates.

Word Study & Centers

• Practice the words together each day in morning meeting.
• Use the provided activities for centers, morning work, or seat work throughout the week.

Extension or Intervention

• Use this curriculum as an extra challenge for advanced kindergarten students.
• Use this curriculum as intervention for older students in need of extra phonics and sight word practice.

Weekly Breakdown and Overview

Week 1: Spelling Rule: Spelling Patterns and Word Families

• Focus: All /all/, Al /all/, Al /aw/

Week 2: Spelling Rule: Spelling Patterns and Word Families

• Focus: Wild Old Words O and i are sometimes long in one-syllable words ending in ld, nd, st, or lt  (-old, -ost, -olt, -ind, -ild families)

Week 3: Spelling Rule: Spelling Patterns and Word Families

• Focus: Wor /wer,/ Wa /wo/, War /wor/

Week 4: Spelling Rule: Spelling Patterns and Word Families

• Focus: Short u can be spelled o This most oven happened before v, n, and  th

Week 5: Spelling Rule: Homophones

• Focus: a sounds

Week 6: Spelling Rule: Homophones

• Focus: e and o sounds

Week 7: Spelling Rule: Homophones

• Focus: i, diphthongs, and other vowel pairs

Week 8: Spelling Rule: Homophones

• Focus: Bossy R

Week 9: Spelling Rule: Jobs of final e  We know silent E usually makes the vowel say its name but final e has other jobs too 

• Focus: Make c and g soft Add a needed vowel to c+le syllables Words don’t end in v

Week 10: Spelling Rule: Jobs of final e

• Focus: Makes th voiced Shows that a word ending in s is not plural 

Clarifies the meaning of homophones

Week 11: Review

Week 12: Prefixes

• Focus: in- & im-: not (im- is used before p) Fore- before

Week 13: Prefixes

• Focus: Non- not or no Uni- one Over- too much

Week 14: Spelling Rule: Prefixes

• Focus: De- opposite Under- below Dis- not

Week 15: Spelling Rule: Suffixes

• Focus: -er, -est 

Week 16: Spelling Rule: Suffixes

• Focus: -er, -or, -ist- one who/ that which -er is the most common

-or often follows ct or it

Week 17: Spelling Rule: Suffixes

• Focus: -ment act, process -ion act of, state of, result of -al relating to.

Week 18: Spelling Rule: Suffixes

• Focus: -ous full of -ish like, about, or belonging to -less without

Week 19: Review

Week 20: Spelling Rule: Syllabication Words are made of 1 or more syllables.

There are 6 different types of syllables addressed:

1. closed
2. silent e
3. open
4. vowel teams (including long vowels and diphthongs)
5. r controlled
6. c+le

• Focus: Simple closed- vowels are short and syllables are closed 

Week 21: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: Complex closed- vowels are short and syllables are closed but include consonant blends and/or digraphs  

Week 22: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: /ch/ spelled tch after a short vowel /j/ spelled dge after a short vowel

/k/ spelled ck after a short vowel 

Week 23: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: Silent e

Week 24: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: Open

Week 25: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: Vowel teams- long vowels 

Week 26: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: Vowel teams- diphthongs & other vowel pairs

Week 27: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: R controlled 

Week 28: Spelling Rule: Spelling Rule: Syllabication

• Focus: Consonant +le 

Week 29: Review

Week 30: Spelling Rule: Schwa

• Focus: Beginning schwa a in a multi syllable word

Week 31: Spelling Rule: Schwa

• Focus: Ending schwa a in a multi syllable word

Week 32: Spelling Rule: Schwa

• Focus: Vowel +l at the end of a multi syllable word

Week 33: Spelling Rule: Schwa

• Focus: Vowel +n at the end of a multi syllable word

Week 34: Spelling Rule: Silent Letters

• Focus: H can be silent

Week 35: Spelling Rule: Silent Letters

• Focus: T can be silent after s

Week 36: Spelling Rule: Silent Letters

• Focus: L is sometimes silent after a vowel U is sometimes silent 

Week 37: Spelling Rule: Ei and ie 

• Focus: In the middle of a word ie usually says long e 

Long e can also be spelled ei when it comes after c or in other exceptions

Week 38: Review

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