Spelling Words
Dearborn’s Spelling Curriculum
There are usually 8 words that fit a pattern like long e words (meet).
- there are 3-5 Content words taken from their math, science, social studies or language arts curriculum.
- There will also be 2 cold words. Cold words are new words the children have not studied that fit the pattern that is being studied that week. I have found cold words are hard for a lot of students so I usually only give 2 or 3 cold words.
- There will be a total of about 15 words per week.
Spelling Homework
Students should practice their words each week. We are now using iLearn for our spelling. The log in to iLearn using their lunch card number and birthday (mmddyyyy) for their password. Here is a link to iLearn:
Spelling Grade 3 First Semester:
| Week 1
Short & Long /a/ Hot words lane, ate, trap, cape, cane, late,tape, man Content- south north, east, west, location |
Week 2-Short & Long /i/
Hot words – will, ice, brick, pie, polite, spin, kick, nice Content-gravity, speed, cause, effect, predict |
Week 3-Short & Long /o/
Hot words – poke, below, show, clock, spoke,broke, rock, lock Content- number, chart, friction,contact, slope |
Week 4-Short & Long /e/
Hot words-meet, rest, seem, well, best, teach, each, tell Content –addition, sum, force, motion |
| Week 5- Short & Long /u/ Hot words – lunch, thump, bunch, under, thunder, much, truck, bug, rug,
Content- subtraction, heading, gravity |
Week 6
Blends Hot words -track, blood, slid, flood, stack, drab, slip, black, crab, drop Content – fiction, nonfiction, difference, |
Week 7 Consonant Digraphs
Hot words three, chin, thin, shell, shin, fish, bath, chop Content – addends, characters, topic, lakes |
Week 8 /r/ syllables
Hot words -brother, whisper, father, teacher, grandmother, grandfather,sister, mother, summer Content – estimate, pollution, renewable measure |
| Week 9-Multisyllabic VC/CV
Hot words-, dinner, bottle, rabbit, soccer, tunnel, cotton, kitten, better, happen Content- length, millimeter, width, weather |
Week 10-Multisyllabic V/CV
Hot words-music, basic, honor, rewind, alive, habit, behind, olive Content- centimeter, ruler, inch, meter,data |
Week 11-/ou/
Hot words-found, pound, ground, mound, hound, sound, cloud, round, Content-source, perimeter, area, persuasive, opinion |
Week 12-/ow/
Hot words- throw, willow, pillow, crow, know, snow, flow, grow, Content- geography, regions, Dearborn, Michigan, remainder |
| Week 13
/oi/ & /oy/ Hot words-annoy, royal, joint, appoint, destroy, doily, toil, spoil Content- because, reasons, topic, paragraph details |
Week 14
/gr/ /br/ & /cr/ Hot words-grapes, grace, grain, cross, crowd, brake, cried, brain, bring, gray Content – division, product, factors divisor, dividend |
Week 15
/pr/ /tr/ /fr/ & /dr/ Hot words- price, track, frame, printing, traps, frying, dream, trim Content millions, thousands, solid, liquid, , length |
Week 16
/scr/ /shr/ /spr/ & /thr/ Hot words-scroll, sprain, scream, thread, throat,shrimp, shrank sprint Content-immigrant, pioneer, generation, timeline, decade, |
| Week 17 Silent /wr/ and /kn/ Pattern
Hot words– wrist, knife, know, knee, wreck, writing, knot, write Content – author, first next, finally |
Week 18 /nk/ /sk/ & /mp/
Hot words– ankle, jumped, banker, desk, swamp, camper, pink, lamp Content – conclusion, because, believe, century, migrate |
Week 19 Homophones
Hot words aunt, ant, eight, ate,waste, waist, made, maid, weight, wait, past, passed Content-polygon, line, angle |
Week 20 Homophones
Hot words- there, their, they’re, , bored, board, plane, plain, flour, flower, some, sum Content ray, line segment |
Second Semester:
| Week 21
/are/ Hot words – care, stare, fare, dare, bare, share, spare, aware, Content organisms environment habitat survive fossils |
Week 22
/ire/ & /ear/ Hot words -hire, earth, learn, retire, early, , heard, earn, tire, Content- conclusion, believe, purpose, economy,resource |
Week 23
/ere/ & /ier/ Hot words – there, cashier, earlier, anywhere, flier, where, carrier, copier, interfere Content- problem, solution, genre |
Week 24
/air/ & /ore/ Hot words-stairs, airplane, , explore, repair, , upstairs, ignore, fair, affair, anymore, Content theme, setting predict |
| Week 25
Multisyllabic /le/ Hot words – tickle, puddle, bubble, riddle, pickle, giggle, middle, muddle Content observe, plants,citizen, local, state |
Week 26
Endings: /y/ to /i/ & add /es/ Hot words- pennies, marries, families, copies, candies, empties, worries, studies Content- text, however, also, facts, adapt |
Week 27
Irregular Plurals Hot words – knives, leaves, children, wives, wolves, scarves,geese, loaves Content- fractions, denominator, numerator, decimal, reproduction |
Week 28
/spl/ & /sp/ Hot words – splash, spider, speak, sports, splinter, spiral, space, splatter Content value, trade solution, minus,traits |
| Week 29-Contractions
Hot words – isn’t, didn’t, we’ll, she’s, you’ve, there’s, haven’t, , won’t Content –digit, characteristics, count solve, tally, |
Week 30-Singular Possessives
Hot words – family’s, doctor’s, truck’s, author’s, brother’s, grandmother’s, turtle’s, yesterday’s, Content- degree, growth, organism, life cycle, inherit |
Week 31-/ight/
Hot words- might, tight, fight, sight, , bright, delight, slight, eight Content-– capital resources, human resources natural resources, import export, products |
Week 32
/oo/ Sound Hot words, wood, hood, could, crew, , stood, would, should, stew Content- demand, transportation, services supply, profit |
| Week 33
/ou/ and /oi/ sound Hot words-noises, voices, thousand, frown, grouch, drought, voyage, downtown Content- question conclusion, survive, species, animals |
Week 34-/ure/
Hot words- figure, injure, mixture, measure, future, nature, fixture, picture Content- renewable, nonrenewable, evidence, describe, explanation |
Week 35
/sce / & /nse/ Hot words-nonsense, descend, cleanse, dense, crescent, expense, ascend, scene, Content-variation, analyze, interpret, influence, individual |
Week 36
VCV Pattern Hot words razor, promise, famous, radar, easel, habit, limit, diver, bison, talent Content-death, construct, diverse, parents, model |
| Week 37
Year-End Review |
Here is a link to my Google Drive with all the Spelling Sorts:
Here is a link to my Google Drive with all the Spelling Homework (HW) – Tic-Tac-Toe
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