Spelling Words For 7-8 Year Olds (Year 3)
If your child is in Year 3, they will be learning to spell words with more than one syllable. The following list contains some of the more difficult words that your child may be asked to spell. Practice these words regularly to help them improve their spelling skills.
- air
- body
- dinner
- forest
- I’d
- mean
- paper
- sending
- state
- tonight
- won
- able
- behind
- corner
- few
- high
- lovely
- once
- rode
- spelling
- these
- wild
- again
- better
- desert
- flying
- hurry
- making
- pair
- salt
- stairs
- thought
- without
- bear
- class
- eyes
- head
- let’s
- nothing
- real
- sorry
- team
- west
- along
- bread
- don’t
- fourth
- isn’t
- mind
- penny
- shall
- stopped
- trying
- working
- airplane
- bones
- dishes
- forgot
- I’ll
- merry
- party
- sent
- step
- trade
- won’t
- afternoon
- belt
- dark
- flower
- hundred
- own
- running
- spring
- those
- winter
- barn
- cattle
- every
- hair
- later
- never
- reach
- something
- taking
- water
- balloon
- carry
- even
- ground
- large
- near
- poor
- soap
- table
- wasn’t
- another
- cabin
- early
- getting
- kind
- mouth
- plan
- sister
- such
- under
- yard
- basket
- cave
- everyone
- half
- learn
- news
- reading
- sometime
- talking
- weather
- beach
- children
- everything
- having
- leave
- noise
- ready
- song
- teacher
- we’re
- begin
- color
- felt
- hello
- living
- oil
- rocket
- their
- wife
- alone
- bought
- done
- found
- inches
- past
- sew
- stood
- trip
- word
- anything
- cage
- earth
- given
- kitten
- plane
- sitting
- sugar
- upon
- year
- always
- brought
- dream
- friend
- kept
- morning
- picture
- should
- strong
- twenty
- write
- also
- broke
- draw
- Friday
- I’ve
- month
- person
- shot
- street
- twelve
- would
- afraid
- below
- cover
- fishing
- hour
- lunch
- order
- rule
- sport
- third
- window
- almost
- born
- does
- form
- I’m
- might
- pass
- seventh
- stick
- trick
- wool
- age
- birthday
- didn’t
- follow
- hurt
- maybe
- paint
- says
- stand
- throw
- woman
- began
- coal
- feeling
- heat
- list
- often
- river
- space
- that’s
- which
- around
- camp
- east
- grandmother
- knew
- please
- sixth
- summer
- wagon
- yesterday
- already
- bright
- dragon
- free
- it’s
- money
- people
- short
- stove
- turn
- world
- because
- close
- face
- heard
- letter
- number
- rich
- sound
- teeth
- wheat
- bark
- catch
- ever
- guess
- largest
- nearly
- race
- someone
- taken
- watch
- animal
- busy
- drink
- front
- kids
- mouse
- place
- sight
- study
- uncle
- wrong
- art
- can’t
- eight
- great
- knife
- sled
- Sunday
- wait
- you’re
- become
- cloth
- family
- he’s
- life
- o’clock
- right
- south
- tenth
- where
- aunt
- care
- grew
- lady
- music
- point
- smoke
- supper
- walking
- above
- believe
- cotton
- fight
- himself
- loving
- orange
- round
- spent
- thinking
- win
