Writing Words

Our “Writing Words” program is designed to focus on high frequency writing words that are often misspelled in writing. By the end of the school year, there are 80 common words that the third graders are expected to spell correctly in their writing.

At the beginning of each month, your child will receive a list of that month’s “Writing Words.”  These words will be posted on the wall in the classroom, and the children are expected to learn how to spell these words correctly by the end of the month.  We will do some practice here at school, but they will also need to study these words at home.  Each month, there may be some homonyms on the list like there, their, and they’re.  In addition to knowing how to spell these words, they will be expected to know when to use the appropriate one.  At the end of the month, they will take a test on these words.  Once they have been tested on these words, they will be held accountable for spelling them correctly in their writing for the rest of the school year.  

There is a tab to the left where all the writing words are listed for the year.  Here are the words for October:

October
by

buy

have

very

really

was

no

know

can’t

first

enough

off