Improve Grade 3 students' spelling skills with these free printable spelling practice worksheets.
Includes common word lists, fun exercises, and engaging activities designed to build vocabulary, confidence, and writing skills.
Spelling Practice — Circle the Correct Spelling
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The printable asks you to circle the right spelling and write it out. Here you click instead, and you are told straight away whether you were right and why — which is the part a printed sheet cannot do. The tricky ones are nearly all about letters that double.
What makes these hard
Look at the wrong spellings and you will notice most of them get the double letters wrong: cary for carry, sumer for summer, beter for better. English does not tell you which letters double — you have to know the word.
The others swap in a letter that makes the same sound: laff for laugh, wether for weather, techer for teacher. Sounding a word out gets you close, but it will not get you all the way.
Question 1
Which spelling is correct?
beautiful. It starts beau-, which is unusual and worth learning as a shape: b-e-a-u. Both wrong spellings guess at it from the sound.
Question 2
Which spelling is correct?
laugh. The gh makes an f sound, which is why laff looks so tempting. English keeps the old spelling even though the sound changed.
Question 3
Which spelling is correct?
carry — two r's. cary would rhyme with Mary. The double letter is what makes the first vowel short.
Question 4
Which spelling is correct?
picture. The ending is -ture, even though it sounds like cher. The same ending turns up in future and nature.
Question 5 — select all that apply
Select every word that is spelled correctly, then press Check.
water, morning, yellow are right. gardin should be garden, beter should be better (two t's), and brothur should be brother — the ending is -er, which is the commonest way to finish a word like this.
Question 6
Four of the words on this sheet have a double letter. Which one does not?
holiday has one l. That is exactly why hollyday and holliday look plausible — and why guessing from the sound does not settle it. carry, better and summer all double.
Question 7 — put them in order
Click these words in alphabetical order.
brother → laugh → morning → water. Compare the first letters: b, l, m, w. You only need the second letter when two words start the same.
Think about it
laugh has a gh that sounds like f. Can you think of another word that does that?
How do you remember which letters double in better and summer?
weather and whether are both real words that sound the same. What does each one mean?
Pick three words from this sheet and write a sentence using all three.