Spelling words for 3rd grade: everyday words with the spellings that start to trip children up, such as silent letters, the many ways of writing one vowel sound, and endings like -le and -er. This is the age many children enter their first school spelling bee, so the lists mix words to learn for class with words a bee might ask.
Use the classroom list for weekly practice and the spelling bee list to stretch a confident speller. Every word has its own page with a recording and a meaning, and the practice buttons read words at the same level aloud for the child to spell.
Updated October 15, 2026.
30 classroom words from level 2 and 20 spelling bee words from level 3 of the nine Spelling Bee Hive levels.
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