worldspellingchampionship

SYLLABUS FOR GRADE 3

The World Spelling Championship covers questions on spelling rules, strategies, and generalizations. Each student gets a specially designed e-book to prepare for the Championship. Each lesson focuses on a core set of 20 words, plus 10 challenge words to extend students. The crafted word lists are based on the sound, structure, and meaning of words. They support teaching of the following elements of the State Standards:

English Language Arts Standards
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4
  1. Form and use possessives. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.D

  2. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.E

  3. Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.F
  1. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.B
Aspects of spelling covered in this year Championship
Aspect Areas covered
Digraphs and trigraphs
shr, thr; air, eer; igh; wh, ph, gh; squ, sch, sph; ear
Endings
it, et, ot; e, es; le, el, al; ary, ery, ory; irregular plurals
Prefixes
un, dis, mis
Suffixes
ing; ing short vowels; ed; er, or; ies, ied; ful, less; y; ly; ness
Letter patterns
augh, ough
Other
vowel sounds, ch sound, silent letters, end sounds, homophones, silent letters, soft c and g, irregular verbs, compound words, contractions, tricky words