Third Grade
Below you will find a list of The Five Big Ideas of Reading and Letter Recognition. Your student can select a components and then choose a Home Activity and then play a game.
*Sight words are meant to be read quickly and not sounded out. Please practice sight words regularly. You can read off the list, play games, make flashcards, etc.
*Phonemic Awareness- The ability to notice, think about and work with individual sounds.
*Letter Recognition- Ability to know name and sound of upper and lower case letters.
*Phonics- Letter sound relation to reading and spelling words accurately and quickly.
*Vocabulary- Understanding of new words and concepts.
*Fluency- Reading quickly and accurately, and with expression.
*Comprehension- Making meaning of text and communicate meaning about what was read.
Third Grade Sight Words
I have Dolch sight words listed below. I also believe that using as many sight words for fluency is essential. I will periodically send home Fry's Sight word lists. We call them words in our brain bank account and student move up by the 100's. For many years, my third graders have moved up through the lists and some even get to lists 5 or 6 towards the end of the year. There is no set list in my class to reach, they move through the lists at their own rate.
Words that should be read quickly:
rabbit
milk
door
farm
five
best
hot
own
cow
pick
grow
just
sheep
seven
boat
dog
read
full
right
white
sing
buy
baby
keep
off
cut
warm
please
myself
ball
well
whose
kind
bird
chair
sleep
start
table
four
their
laugh
write
mother
pig
shall
wash
six
book
day
cake
hold
eight
friend
they're
fall
doll
drink
clean
light
hurt
meat
men
thank
try
together
better
why
far
pretty
street
use
though
both
today
Third Grade Decodable Words
CAN be sounded out:
braid
beach
trait
clean
soap
shown
boast
flight
spray
speech
speedway
daydream
brightness
shadow
brave
slap
smoke
wide
plate
drive
spoke
smock
flake
flat
drainpipe
hopeless
sunstroke
trade wind
clerk
smart
birch
torch
nurse
sport
Carl
verse
march
twirl
arcade
monarch
northern
border
smooth
point
grew
cause
Troy
shampoo
turmoil
oyster
exhaust
unload
distrust
expand
return
teachable
extinction
preventable
blouse
knight
phase
sketch
quote
southwest
dolphin
hopscotch
banquet
contain
handle
provide
smallest
completely
connection
glamorous
Third Grade Dolch Words
Read Quickly, NOT sounded out:
about
better
bring
carry
clean
cut
done
draw
drink
eight
fall
far
full
got
grow
hold
hot
hurt
if
keep
kind
laugh
light
long
much
myself
never
only
own
pick
seven
shall
show
six
small
start
ten
today
together
try
warm