Benchmark Advance

Grade 3 Phonics Skills and Spelling Words

Unit
	
Week
	Phonics/Word Study and Vocabulary
	
Spelling Words

1. Government for the People
	
1
	Short Vowels
	conflicts, examples, helpful, imagine, plans, printed, problems, upset

2
	Long a (VCe, ai, ay, a)
	favored, explained, separate, plain, became, swayed, raised, vain

3
	Long o (VCe, oa, ow, o) and Long u (VCe, ue, ew, u)
	arrows, broken, contribution, new, obeyed, told, united, used

2. Ways Characters Shape Stories
	
1
	Longe (VCe, ea, ee, ey, y, ie, e)
	honey, hungry, even, freedom, leave, pieces, queens, screamed

2
	Long i (i_e, igh, y, ie, i)
	cried, fighting, island, might, myself, provided, sacrifice, unwind

3
	Compound Words
	firelight, heartbeat, hillside, mountaintop, thunderclap, treetops, underwater, woodstove

3. Animal Adaptations
	
1
	r-controlled Vowels (/är/, /ôr/)
	sharks, sharp, arctic, carnivores, born, forward, form, forest

2
	r-Controlled Vowels (-er, -ir, -ur)
	caterpillar, butterfly, dangerous, deter, birds, curl, furry, survive

3
	Closed Syllable Pattern
	black, better, blended, sticky, munching, quickly, predators, suddenly

4. Comparing Points of View
	
1
	Open Syllable Pattern
	apron, began, briars, lady, music, replied, potatoes, vocabulary

2
	Consonant -le Syllable Pattern
	able, bicycle, fable, gentle, gobble, purple, single, terrible

3
	Vowel Team Syllable Pattern
	beans, green, week, feet, too, sprouted, boasted, shook

5. Advancements in Technology
	
1
	VCe Syllable Pattern
	telephone, arrive, whole, June, huge, broke, celebrated, wire

2
	Vowel-r Syllable Pattern
	clerk, over, smaller, coworkers, performed, various, mother, simpler

3
	Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing
	carried, introduced, taking, changed, relied, using, creating, sharing

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Benchmark Advance

Grade 3 Phonics Skills and Spelling Words

Unit
	
Week
	Phonics/Word Study and Vocabulary
	
Spelling Words

6. Making Decisions
	
1
	Irregular Plurals
	geese, people, themselves, grass, sheep, wolves, lives, teeth

2
	Long oo and Short oo
	choose, good, took, food, looked, wooden, foolish, rooster

3
	/ou/ as in How and Out
	brown, growls, sound, down, howl, waterfowl, found, snout

7. Communities Then and Now
	
1
	Suffixes -er, -or
	bakers, painters, owners, players, visitors, sculptors, vendors, actors

2
	Homophones
	past, passed, so, sew, eight, ate, where, wear

3
	Variant Vowel /ô/
	walls, called, stalks, awful, dawn, thawing, taught, pause

8. Weather and Climate

1
	Hard and Soft c
	fierce, affect, covered, Connecticut, certain, crucial, recommended, computers

2
	Hard and Soft g
	gathered, grateful, garden, green, good, again, generous, germinated

3
	Diphthongs
	point, sprout, moisture, shower, cloud, south, soil, downpour

9. Spending Time and Money
	
1
	Suffixes -able, -ful, -less
	profitable, valuable, sizable, fanciful, delightful, tearful, countless, penniless

2
	Prefixes (dis-, un-)
	disappeared, unrivaled, disassembled, unblemished, displeasure, unhappy, disbelief, unsalted

3
	Prefixes pre-, re-
	prearrange, prekindergarten, preorder, prepackaged, reconsider, recycled, restock, rethink

10. Forces and Interactions

1
	Compound Words
	bone-tired, daybreak, everyone, finish line, halfway, jack-rabbit, meanwhile, slow-poke

2
	Derivational Suffixes (-ing, -ment, -ness)
	amazement, happiness, scrambling, cleverness, leading, slyness, contentment, sadness, warning

3
	Introduce Related Words
	inventor, invention, problem, solve, solution, problematic, transforms, transformation

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